"Don't look for superficial movement but hidden, inner movement, which is the most full and beautiful".

- Leonid Lerman, Bridgeview founder.

In the course of this program students will learn to see and portray man-made and organic objects as well as the human figure as sculpture. They will learn to understand the three-dimensional form by focusing on such essential issues as construction, proportions, balance, weight and tension of masses, the connection of individual parts and their harmonic unity.

Vitaly Patrov, faculty. Portrait..

Level 1

Typical assignments may include:

• Still Life in relief
• Copying an antique relief
• Sculpting an architectural decorative detail
• Sculpting a human scull
• Coping a head with shoulders from a classical cast
• Sculpting a portrait from life (life-size scale)

Level 2

• Sculpting anatomical casts including Michelangelo's David's eye, nose, and mouth.
• Sculpting figure from life (3/4 scale)
• Short figure sketches in small scale
• Studies of figure in motion
• Figure in relief and high relief, and in the round
• Life-size figure from life

Level 3

• Figure with drapery (life-size scale)
• Sculpting hands and feet from life
• Figure, male and female in various poses
• Arrangement of two figures
• Diploma project