Gallery: Geometric Drawings.
In this copy of a fascinating sketch by the nineteenth-century artist Luca Cambiaso, you can see how the artist literally built
the figures of this composition out of a variety of rectangular blocks by considering the large planes of the figures. With a
great knowledge of the mechanics of the human figure, Cambiaso created a very believable group of figures in motion and
gave them a feeling of solidity and light through the use of these simplified forms.
This could have been a preliminary study for a large-scale figure painting, or simply an exercise in the gesture and movement
of the human figure.
Copy after Luca Cambiaso’s Group of Figures,by Dean Fisher