Original artwork description:

"Flayed Head" - An anatomical study made from the wax-works in the Museo della Specola, Florence. The waxworks are displayed as if actors in their own mortality, with expressions and gestures, inviting us to empathise and reflect on our own mortality.

Materials used:

Pencil on Fabriano Paper

Tags:
#drawing #head #baroque #anatomy 

Testa Spellata (1978) Pencil drawing
by Kenneth Hay

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"Flayed Head" - An anatomical study made from the wax-works in the Museo della Specola, Florence. The waxworks are displayed as if actors in their own mortality, with expressions and gestures, inviting us to empathise and reflect on our own mortality.

Materials used:

Pencil on Fabriano Paper

Tags:
#drawing #head #baroque #anatomy 
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Trained under Sir Lawrence Gowing in the 'Euston Road' style of direct observational painting, following Cézanne, and then under pupils of Renato Guttuso and Oscar Kokoschka at Florence Academy, my... Read more

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