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Friday, October 22, 2021

Ruiz


Most of the academic drawings in my collection are French, which is quite understandable given the prominence of France in the art world, both in the 19th C. and later.  This very good drawing, however, is by Enrique Ruiz, a Spanish artist who drew it in 1896.



 

8 comments:

  1. At first I mistook it for a photo. It's beautifully done and ads to the series. Way to go, Jerry.

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  2. I'm with Big Dude on this. I thought that this and a couple more of the drawings featured in the series were photos. They are beautifully done and really do complement the photos. A great series, Jerry.

    Peter

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  3. As now two contributors have commented on the very realistic style in which this sketch has been executed, I cannot but wonder if the artists of the period deliberately played down the size of a man's membrum virile. As no stranger to the size of such - particularly in my running days - unless this otherwise splendid specimen lost out in the lottery of life, he and others so often depicted seem to be on the abnormally small side.

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    1. We see a package of average or larger size on a more or less regular basis in these works, but I do see your point. I think it may be the result of Classical influences going all the way back to ancient Greece where full sized genitals were considered coarse and gauche in art, especially when depicting gods or heroes.

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  4. Oh this is lovely. I suspect that this is and was very much the man presented before us. Totally natural, honestly depicted...right down to his knobbly knees.

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    1. After I completed and posted the series, I realized that many of these very accurate drawings were made at a time when such realism was going out of fashion. Apparently, the Masters at the academies stuck to the old requirement of life drawing that looked like the real thing. Glad they did!

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