A revealing exhibition will launch next week with the aim of reigniting the practice of life drawing in art schools.
From Friday, January 13, Wimbledon College of Art’s ‘The Perfect Nude’ exhibition will seek to reawaken artistic interest in abstract painting by asking over 100 artists to make paintings of the naked human form.
A spokesman for the college said: “The nude seems ripe for a reawakening. It is an implicitly psychological genre, tapping directly into the artistic psyche.
“This show is an aesthetic experiment presenting a comprehensive range of responses to the subject.”
Curated by Dan Coombs and Phillip Allen, many of the paintings will be unseen before the hang and the artists will be charged with creating a rich network of images to represent the body in contemporary painting.
Wimbledon College of Art, Merton Hall Road. January 13 – February 10; 10am to 5pm. For more details visit Wimbledon.arts.ac.uk or call 020 7514 9641.
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