Class #141b: Anatomy of the Human Body & Comparative Anatomy with Dr. Said Bouftass
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A first in Chicago! Comparative anatomy classes at the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts. During this series of classes, we'll study the skeleton of the foot and then their muscles and tendons with an anatomical, morphological and phenomenological approach.
The course is equally theoretical and practical and follows the academic tradition of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. The course is interspersed with phenomenological explanations of perception and the human body. The aim of this course is to equip students with a good knowledge of the human skeleton, muscles and tendons, enabling them to understand shapes and movements, to better perceive and observe live models and animals, and thus to better draw, sculpt and paint them. It's important to point out that this course takes place live, with drawings made on the blackboard using charcoal, white chalk and colored chalk. Students will do the same.
See you soon for a wonderful human and artistic adventure.
- The class will meet in our coach house studio (rear building).
- It's very important to have a notebook/sketchbook (9x12) for copying sketches and écorchés, a kneaded eraser as well as colored pencils in black, blue, green, red and orange. Keep the same notebook/sketchbook throughout the 8 weeks.
Said Bouftass
Email: saidbouftass063@gmail.com
Phone: 252-267-2290
Said Bouftass is originally from Casablanca, Morocco. After high school, he went to Paris to study at the majestic Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he was also an assistant to professors Francois Fontaine and Philippe Comar. He then worked with Jean-Francois Debord, who had accompanied him in his doctoral research at the University of Paris Saint-Dénis where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy of art in 2001.
Said Bouftass then returned to Morocco to teach the art of drawing the human body and the morphology of human body at the National School of Architecture in Rabat and at the National Institute of Fine Art in Tetouan. He currently lives and work in Chicago.