A Life Figure Drawing Workshop After Edgar Degas via Zoom
Due to the current national security situation, the Museum will be closed to the public, and all activities in physical spaces are postponed until further notice.
We are all going through extremely trying times. In a bid to help, however modestly, we continue to offer, for the second week running, an hour of respite, by providing captivating lectures and encounters every day, free of charge, via Zoom.
We invite you, the culture-loving public, to enjoy an hour of curiosity.
We wish everyone days of peace.
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A Life Figure Drawing Workshop After Edgar Degas / Facilitator: painter Roni Taharlev; Model: Anna Kogan
The workshop will allow participants to experience life figure drawing from observation, inspired by drawings of dancers by the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas. It will begin with a warm-up exercise in which we will copy details from Degas’s paintings, followed by instruction on how to draw a life model.
The workshop is facilitated by the painter Roni Taharlev, winner of the 2022 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art, whose exhibition Not This Light, the Other Light is currently on display at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
No prior knowledge or experience required.
Lesson duration: About two hours.
Equipment required: Pencil, eraser, sharpener and plain sheet of paper.
Note: Brown or gray paper, charcoal, chalk, white pencil or any other material can also be used.
Note: This activity is in Hebrew only
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Image: Edgar Degas, Study of Two Dancers, charcoal and chalk on paper, ca. 1885, High Museum of Art