From Life review – lacking a vital spark

Royal Academy, London
A confused survey of life drawing offers little in the way of fresh observation, or hope for the future of a dying artYou cannot draw, and yet you are an artist. Might this be a contradiction in terms? It would have been, a century ago. Even comparatively recently, art students were required to study anatomy, sketch classical casts in the sculpture court and stand for hours drawing professional models as twilight fell in the studio. To draw was to see, to understand, t