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Importance of Copying the Masters

From Daniel Graves, Florence Academy of Art

Looking closely at the work of great masters is indispensable for the personal growth of an artist, and summer vacations are the perfect time for art students to explore museums and galleries and drink in the wealth of inspiration, technique and skill that they contain.

“Art begets art,’ says Daniel Graves, painter and founder of the Florence Academy of Art, “and nothing is more useful for an art student than to copy a great master painting.”

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Recently students of the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art “copied” paintings by Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastista, Master nineteenth/ twentieth century oil painter and fifteenth century artist Diego Velasquez in the Spanish Society museum in New York.

Read more about this trip.

October 2, 2009 · admin · No Comments
Tags: painting · Posted in: Learning Opportunities

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