Classical Figure DrawingMaster ClassIn-Person
Thursday, Jan 09, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
New York Academy of Art
111 Franklin Street
New York, NY 10013
The New York Academy of Art is a graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. We believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision. Academy students are taught traditional methods and techniques and encouraged to use these skills to make vital contemporary art. The Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative and representational art.
Classical figure drawing is a practice that dates back centuries. Many great artists, from Michelangelo to Degas, dedicated themselves to extensive training with live models, a practice of intense observational drawing that cultivates a deep, visceral understanding of the human form. Today, mastering the human figure is still widely considered essential for an artist, whether they work in realism, abstraction, or stylized forms. This master class in figure drawing continues that grand, classic tradition and offers teachers a rare opportunity to spend an extended period studying and drawing from a live model, while also improving their observational and artistic skills.
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Dan Thompson
Dan Thompson has exhibited in public and private venues worldwide, including at the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery and the National Arts Club in New York City; John Pence Gallery in San Francisco; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the United States Capitol in Washington, DC; the Pasadena Museum of California Art; and at Beijing’s World Art Museum. His awards and honors include the Erlebacher Award from the New York Academy of Art, two Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Awards for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran School of Art, and two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants. Thompson currently serves as faculty chair of the Certificate of Fine Arts Program at the New York Academy of Art, where he has also taught in the MFA program since 2001.