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ANATOMY OF CLOTHING

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Giotto di Bondone Joachim'Dream 1303-1304
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Leonardo da Vinci St. Jerome 1480-1490

Italian paintings could reflect on their art the anatomy of the painting the painting construction of cloth stretched over a wooden chassis as analogous to the description of human anatomy naked or suggested in the folds and stretches of their clothing in recognition of the viewer's somatic reality in place at the front of the painting
As a teenager i studied anatomy at the National College of Art in Kildare Street Dublin 1963 - '66 drawing from the Antique (10cent. Greek Laocoön and his Sons and Roman statuary) and the directly from the life model… this now has entered into my work as both as a function of the actual structure of bolting: equivalent to origins and insertions of muscle and bone and recognition of the somatic visual construction of the painting in that subjects space-time…2024

Laocoon
1963-67 N.C.D. Dublin Ireland graphite & paper Laocoon and his Sons
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Guernica
top left corner of Picasso's Guernica

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