24 Simplicity for the Sake of Clarity
Ian Steele, our Tuesday night model, said a very significant thing to me after the session. He said after holding a pose for some minutes he no longer had that fresh, intense feeling for the pose that he had when he first assumed it. That is something that happens in all phases of life. First love is so strong and exhilarating after 30 years of marriage that feeling diminishes (or is gone). The first bite of some delicious food tastes so vivid — after munching on it for half an hour, the taste almost disappears. Likewise the artist, when he first gets an inspiration or tackles a pose in an action analysis class sees the pose, is struck by its clarity and its expressiveness, then after working on it for a ...
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