A rare compositional drawing by Fra Filippo Lippi, a subtly toned landscape by Claude Lorrain, a scene of battling horses by Géricault, a stately portrait by Ingres, one of Seurat's brilliant black crayon drawings of a French vaudeville scene, and works by Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec are among the highlights.
It includes detailed figure drawings, compositional studies, portraits and designs for woodcuts, stained glass and decorative objects by Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) and Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543).
Leonardo's preparatory studies -- including drawings, compositional sketches, landscape studies and the full-size cartoon tracing lent by The National Gallery of London -- trace the transformation of the painting through three different versions.
Examples of early drawings done as compositional studies for paintings include Polidoro da Caravaggio's "Study of a Seated Old Man" (circa 1520), executed in preparation for a painted frieze at the Palazzo Baldassini in Rome.
Draw several gesture drawings.
He made countless drawings, impassioned sketches in which he worked out compositional elements.
In this class, we will be making drawings, not sketches, because the making of a drawing in and of itself becomes a compositional, structural, formal, and spatial project.
"With a lot of early drawings and paintings we're thinking: What is the big compositional idea?
Kysa Johnson's chalk drawings use El Greco's paintings of the Immaculate Conception as the compositional framework for renderings of bacteria undergoing asexual reproduction.
Swift in execution, small in format and considerably more intimate than his finished paintings, Lichtenstein's sketches, drawings and collages show the artist planning and arranging, experimenting with sources and compositional structures in search of something fresh, new and entirely his own.
