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Dialogues: Copies of Classic Masters (Polygon version)

Copying was crucial to the learning process in the painter's workshop. Repeating each movement, each shape, each colour, each composition. It could be done blindly and mechanically, but also consciously and reflexively. First, you train your hand and your reflexes, your "muscle/eye " memory. But also, you see in every brushstroke, in every line of the drawing, as part of a dialogue with the past. An interview. Why put that colour in that place? Why make the eyes like that? and then, as the painting progresses, find the answers. The process of learning through copies makes you observe the detail and the peculiarities of each part of the painting, especially the ones you probably didn't think to do in that way. In this dialogue, like in an interview, most of the excitement comes from the interviewee, the master you are copying.

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