Most Underrated Anatomy Book(s) !

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@JonBurnsFineArt 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you that the culture did understand aesthetics better than today. It had a higher value placed on it. Probably the same reason why flat screen televisions are more popular than fine art in the home today. I feel much more elevated when I study Daniel Chester French than Pop art and other popular culture. I'd say if everyone is running to something today, stand back and let them have it. Antiquity is eternal.

@JonBurnsFineArt 3 жыл бұрын

I just acquired two copies of Dunlop's book after this video. Thanks Rick!

@johnnonamegibbon3580 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, finally, someone who gets how bad modern western art is! I will say, there are people still making beautiful art like that of old Europe (though I'd argue the south still has it) and that is Northeast Asia. Koreans and Japanese all have top shelf aesthetics. Even in the most strange places. Everything is beautiful. Like Greeks worshipped everyday beauty. Look at any random book in Halcyon Realms's KZbin channel. Talent is there now.

@rrmm2644 9 ай бұрын

Thanxs God that there are people like you who still believe in the value and beauty of old art & books like me. I got graduated from art college last year and I was planning to learn how to be an artist like Michael Angelo! I was completely disappointed from studying there because they didn't appreciate the beauty of the old masters and instead their focus was on the ugliness of the modern art.

@CasaliArts 9 ай бұрын

Yes most art colleges these days are crap and overpriced. This was my experience at MICA in the early 2000s. Where did you attend school?

@ALEJANDROARANDARICKERT 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree with your reflections, sir. XX th Century will be remembered as a catastrophe in the history of Fine Arts

@randyranson84 2 жыл бұрын

Kindle put this book out on Amazon. ONE BIG PROBLEM, they didn't color it as James M Dunlop did to help art students, oh no, they put it out in black and white only. Losing the book's main reason for being. Terrible, whoever was responsible.

@CasaliArts 2 жыл бұрын

What a shame, the colors make it much more instructive! Thanks for the info and for your interest in this book.

@franksmith9895 3 жыл бұрын

This probably will sound dumb, but I do want to learn how to carve realistic anatomy on my nude carvings. But I ordered the weight training anatomy book hoping I can exaggerate female muscle into super thick Rubenesque ladies ( I was always a big Harry Crumb fan)

@christophermcelhinney1365 3 жыл бұрын

This book is great for several reasons but has a big caution. It is probably the best artistic anatomy book for showing the relationship of the skeleton to the surface form also the tendons versus the muscle both a result of the use of colour, this comes into it's own when he's explaining bones directly affecting the surface for instance. It is also the most concise and accurate book for it's size and (Bad that its black and white) if you get a Dover reprint you can cut down the overly generous blank white space to further reduce the size to make it truly pocket size. In Glasgow School of Art Library in the Mackintosh building before it burned down there were more recent full facsimile copies of the original - my colour copy looks brand new but possibly 1970's? when artistic anatomy as a taught class would have stopped? (Maybe?) THE CAUTION!!!!!! where as its portability and comprehensive nature means it really could be the main book you could use to learn anatomy mentally especially if you have a long commute the clue is in the name "DIAGRAMS". i.e. 2-d information drawn as such. Most students will start with books before paying lots for 3-d models. It has to be remembered that if you are drawing from books not 3-d models your drawings are supposed to be spatial (3-d) this is the short fall of this amazing book. Totally underestimated classic. Thanks Rick for your videos.