Albrecht Durer

On Wednesday I got to go see an exhibition of Albrecht Durer’s etchings and woodcuts in the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Not only is his work fascinating and inspiring to look at, but the exhibition was very relevant to the work I have been doing in my drawing class, with figure drawings, as well as my history class that has recently covered renaissance art. The vast detail that he was capable of achieving with etching is incredible to see in person, and also the way he purposely exaggerated certain parts of the body makes me think about figure drawing differently. I made a sketch while in the museum, and it was interesting to study his technique of hatching and crosshatching to create dimension in the figures. Overall, I would recommend this exhibition to everyone. It’s only four dollars for groups.

This is the drawing I made in the exhibit.
I did my best to imitate his style of figure drawing.