FIGURE DRAWING LAB
USC
544 Introduction to the Art of Animation
PROF. LARA BANK
E-mail: bank@usc.edu
SA: Mengna Lei mengnale@usc.edu 


syllabus
artists list
books
recommended materials
LIST OF ARTISTS

note: google the artist name + "drawings" (many of these artists use other mediums as well.)
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Current (last 40 years)

Realism
Vija Celmins
Amy Adler
James Valerio
Bill Vuksanovich
Edgar Arceneaux
D.J. Hall
Susan Hauptman
Kiki Johnson
Robby Herbst
Salomon Huerta
Andrea Bowers
Martha Alf
Toba Khedoori
Steven Shearer


Realism-Abstraction
Marcel Dzama
Anthony Goicolea
Elizabeth Peyton
Laylah Ali
Matt Leines
Chris Johanson 
Kiki Smith
Yun Fei-ji
Sue Coe
Candice Lin
Olivia Plender
Jean Michel Basquiat
Laylah Ali
Sol LeWitt
Richard Hoglund
Julie Mehretu
Paul Noble
Raymond Pettibon
Tal R
Barry McGee
Margaret Kilgallen
Enrique Chagoya
David Choe
Wangechi Mutu
Erica Eyres
Kai Althoff
Russell Crotty
Abu Bakarr Mansaray
Shazia Sikander
mark Licari
Kara Walker
Judie Bamber
Mark Grotjahn
Franz Ackermann
Nasreen Mohamedi

Cartoonist
Alison Bechdel

Drawing and Film
William Kentridge

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Contemporary (40-100 years ago)

Realism
Lucian Freud
Nancy Grossman
Jose Luis Cuevas
Jim Shaw
Ed Ruscha
Sylvia Sleigh
Charles White
David Hockney
Robert Birmelin

Realism - Abstraction
Gustav Klimt
Egon Schiele
Kathe Kollwitz
Hokusai
George Grosz
Jose Clemente Orozoco
Chitra Ganesh
Alice Neil
Leon Golub
Max Klinger
Susan Rothenberg
Agnes Martin
Ellsworth Kelly
Arshile Gorky
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Philip Guston
Juan Gris
Pablo Picasso
Odilon Redon
Andre Masson

Cartoonist
George Herriman

Mechanical/Motorized
Rebecca Horn

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Historic (over 100 years ago)

Realism - some degree of Abstraction
Goya
Paul Klee
Wassily Kandinsky
Van Gogh
Renoir
Gustav Courbet
William Blake
Aubrey Beardsley
Edgar Degas
Alphonse Legros
John Singer Sargent
Honore Daumier
Francisco de Goya
Gustave Doré
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Hans Holbein, The Younger
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Albrecht Durer
Auguste Rodin
Marc Chagall