Should Christian Art Students Study the Nude Figure?This question especially came to mind when I learned of how Gordon College, a Christian college in Wenham, MA, recently modified it’s Art program when they developed a curriculum that includes the study and rendering of the undraped human figure.As many of you know, a Figure Drawing curriculum using undraped models is not unusual for most college and university Art programs.Gordon College Art Department representatives say that the rationale is to work respectfully with the human figure attempting to bring honor and glory to God in the process.They base this, in a Christian context, on a time-honored professional practice, holding the belief that the human form is the crowning achievement of God in Creation - worthy of the artists’ expert knowledge, and comparable to the scientific knowledge of the human body in medicine and biology.Gordon representatives state: “If you can accurately and expressively draw or paint or sculpt the human form you can draw anything”.So what is your take on this?ArtLessonsfromGod.com"Helping Artists & Designers Discover Their Purpose"
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