In French academic drawing instruction, the advanced student practices drawing by depicting a model posing nude. By metonymy, this kind of drawing is called academy.
> Interesting link to an article in Le Monde
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In French academic drawing instruction, the advanced student practices drawing by depicting a model posing nude. By metonymy, this kind of drawing is called academy.
> Interesting link to an article in Le Monde