LIVING MODEL AND ART ¬ TRADITIONS IN MODERNISM

Abstract

The role of tradition and academic teaching in European modernism, especially in the works of some of its leading artists, is a subject that has not been properly explored in art researches. This article seeks to investigate an essential academic practice, the drawing of the living model, within the context of the life and work of Matisse and Picasso, two central and exemplary representatives of the Parisian avant-garde of the early twentieth century. It is also intended, based on the author's experience as a professor of artistic anatomy, to approach the teaching of anatomy and its relation with some referential art works of modernism