Model (art)

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Georges Seurat , Les Poseuses (1885)

A model in the visual arts is a person who serves as a model for an artistic representation. For sculptural works, the model made as a preliminary study is called a bozzetto .

Model as a person

The studio , 1881, by Marie Bashkirtseff , student at the Académie Julian

The model in the painting and sculpture is a naked ( nude ) or held person - usually a woman - that the artist in the studio or student in art school when drawing or life drawing is model. The nude model in particular is used for exercise and the aim of grasping the anatomy of the human body and implementing it artistically. A model can become a model for a work of art, a nude or a portrait . For example, the artists Paul Cézanne , Salvador Dalí ,Pablo Picasso or Heinrich Vogeler model their wives or partners. There are around 26 paintings by Marie-Hortense Fiquet , initially a model and later Cézanne's wife.

Model as a draft

In sculpture, the design for a sculpture ( bozzetto ) is referred to as a model (Latin: modulus measure , scale ), which is executed as a three- dimensional body made of clay , wax and plaster or other materials. The model can be used in an art and picture foundry to produce a plastic of the same size or an enlarged version made of a harder material. Common materials for the later original include bronze , copper , iron , aluminum , tin , plaster of paris and marble .

literature

  • Georg W. Költzsch : Painter model: The painter and his model. History and interpretation of a picture theme . DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-770-14993-3
  • David K. Rubins: Anatomy for Artists . Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1953, ISBN 3-473-61-106-9
  • Bibliographisches Institut (Ed.): Meyers Kleines Lexikon. Art . Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02655-3
  • Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. An encyclopedia of general knowledge , first volume, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1877

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