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Anthony Panzera: The Big Picture, Life-Size Scrolls And Drawings, University Of Richmond Museums
Anthony Panzera: The Big Picture, Life-Size Scrolls And Drawings, University Of Richmond Museums
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Anthony Panzera: The Big Picture, Life-Size Scrolls and Drawings
January 28 to March 6, 1998
Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums
Introduction
Anthony Panzera's remarkable series of monumental scrolls and drawings of the nude is impressive in its scale and startling in its immediacy. Large and beautiful, the life-size drawings present a contemporary perspective that carries forward a genre of drawing with a long and rich tradition.
The nude figure is an aesthetic theme of endless variation and can be traced to the very beginnings of art. The desire to depict the human form has been the source of …