tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post9038980390980897287..comments2023-11-02T06:50:42.777-07:00Comments on billierosie: THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault billierosiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-38241916267418235052015-03-21T11:49:17.539-07:002015-03-21T11:49:17.539-07:00Amazing how a horrible event can inspire art that ...Amazing how a horrible event can inspire art that is beautiful in some sense. Studying bodies from the morgue would probably be too much for many art students today, but in the 1970s, local art classes regularly hired live nude models so student could learn anatomy from them. As a part-time student, I survived largely on my income as one of these models -- sometimes I was asked to pose side-by-side with the resident skeleton that belonged to the university visual arts department. The instructor would tell the students to look for the same bone structure in me. (Luckily, I was thin, so my bones weren't hard to find.)Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.com