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Description: | Tonks was one of the most influential drawing teachers in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain and developed a linear system of drawing which relied on contour rather than modelling. Trained as a surgeon, he believed that underlying anatomical structure should be visible though a rendering of the angles, planes and junctions of the body in strong line. The model was often placed in short poses to encourage swift work which seized only the essentials of the figure, and the process of drawing was used as a method of exploring form rather than as a route to producing a polished academy' life study. Tonks' own life drawings reflect these ideas. The artist was a regular visitor to the Russian Ballet in 1912 and his biographer Joseph Hone believed that this drawing of a ballet dancer, which is one of a series, was inspired by these visits. Lit: Emma Chambers, 'Henry Tonks: Art and Surgery', exhib. Cat. Strang Print Room, UCL, 2002 Lynda Morris, 'Henry Tonks and the 'Art of Pure Drawing'', exhib. Cat., Norwich School of Art, 1985 | Subjects: | drawing | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Henry Tonks Nationality: British | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7176... | Go to resource |
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