Brunette Girl With Huge Breasts Reveals In The Atelier With A White Pillar

In reviving the atelier tradition, R. H. Ives Gammell (1893-1981) adopted sight-size as the basis of his teaching method. He founded his studio on the precedent of private ateliers, such as those of Carolus-Duran and Léon Bonnat. These French masters were accomplished sight-size portraitists who conveyed to their pupils a devotion to the art of Velázquez. It should be noted that Sargent was trained by both painters and that, in turn, his use of sight-size had a major influence in Great Britain and America.
Charles Cecil is committed to the belief that the atelier tradition is invaluable for a renewal in figurative art...
Art from Ateliers using the sight-size method is often reminiscent of Greek and Roman sculpture from classical antiquity such as the Apollo Belvedere. Paintings may favor the visual imagery of the Neoclassical art of the mid 18th to 19th century. The sight-size method also lends itself to styles of portraiture in which the artists desires an accurate, natural, true to life or even near photographic image of the sitter as is evident in the work of Bouguereau.