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"If I were to run an art school, I should
take a tall house, and I should put the model and the
beginners in the top-story; and as a student's work improved
I should send him down a floor, until at last he would work
upon the level of the street, and would have to run up six
flights of stairs every time he wanted to look at the
model." Edgar Degas, quoted in Boisbaudron, 1911
p.xxxii.
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"Among all the intellectual faculties
that are brought into play in the study and practice of art,
there is none which is of such importance as the memory; and
yet, despite its importance, this faculty has, until now,
never been the object of special study or of systematic
training; and what little cultivation it has received has
been most haphazard and left to chance." Lecoq de
Boisbaudron, p.3
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p.30 "It was agreed that the master and
pupils should meet in a most beautiful spot, a sort of
natural park. The deep shadows thrown by the trees in full
leaf contrasted sharply with the blaze of light with which
the open glade was flooded. A pond full of reflections lay
at their feet. It was a perfect place, offering endless
backgrounds for the human figure, with every possible effect
and range of light and shade, exactly satisfying the purpose
that I had in view. The models I had hired for the occasion
had to walk, run, sit, and stand about in natural attitudes,
either naked like the fauns of old, or clothed in draperies
of different styles and colours.
...Often we would stop one of them with a
shout, and beg him to stay a moment in some chance attitude
that had struck us all....
p.38 The study of animals demands
particularly the employment of the memory. It could be made
the opportunity of reducing into the school course a form of
work as noble as it is valuable, by turning the animals
under observation out loose into the school grounds." Le
Coq.
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