Skeleton and Flayed Figure with a Laurel Crown (detail), 1682. From Samuel van Hoogstraten, Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst, anders de Zichtbaere Werelt (Rotterdam, 1678). Getty Research Institute, 86-B12032
Under the Skin: Drawing Anatomy
GETTY CENTER
Saturday, March 12, 2022, at 11 am
Saturday, March 12, 2022, at 2 pm
Ada Louise Huxtable Lecture Hall
This is a past event
Registration for in-person tickets opens on February 26.
Space is limited, and all experience welcome. Ages 18 and older recommended.
Knowledge of anatomy was long considered essential for an artist's ability to represent the human figure. From the Renaissance onward, artists studied the body’s structure under the skin, particularly the bones and musculature, using dissection and sculptural models of flayed bodies as drawing aids. This drawing session, featuring a live model, introduces participants to the key elements of human anatomy and proportion with artist Peter Zokosky.
This program coincides with the exhibition, Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy, which opens on February 22, 2022 at the Getty Research Institute.
Peter Zokosky, former Getty Artist in Residence at the J. Paul Getty Museum, is a Los Angeles based artist specializing in anatomical art.
This program is part of the GRI's Art History in the Making series, which brings artists, critics, curators, and scholars together to explore how both the creative practice of art-making and new discoveries in art history are provoking new questions and redefining the frontiers of the field.