With Frank Wright, whose background included years of living and studying in Tuscany and Paris, Liberace developed an even deeper love of the old masters. This scholarship freed him to concentrate on honing his skills. The skills exhibited not just correct musculature and proportion, but also depth of emotion and impending motion. Stevens encouraged his application, which he won with a portfolio replete with a sophisticated grouping of figure and portrait studies.
ROBERT LIBERACE DRAWINGS SERIES
Two instructors, Brad Stevens, and later, Frank Wright, led him through a series of studies, just as the masters had done with their students centuries before.Īfter Liberace finished his Bachelor of Liberal Arts, he applied for the prestigious Morris Louis Scholarship, which offered tuition and a stipend to pursue a Master of Fine Art degree at GMU. With his love of the figure, his goal was a complete understanding of anatomy, the dynamic movement of the figure, and the techniques of classical drawing and painting, influenced by the old masters. Although he had been intrigued by Hogarth’s “ Dynamic Figure Drawing” as a child, it was his first figure drawing class from GWU art instructor Brad Stevens that shaped his future. While attending GWU, he expanded his horizons to develop his love of art. Robert Liberace left Rockland County, New York, to attend George Washington University, in Washington, DC, on a baseball scholarship.
Bush, Ambassador Sol Linowitz, Marc Pachter, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, and General Wallace M. Or that his portraits today would include the 41st President of the United States, George H.
Who could have known that a star baseball player from a large Italian family in Pomona, New York, would become one of the world’s living masters of the 21st century’s renaissance of realism and classical figurative art.
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