A Workshop for Painters
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Copies from the Prado,
Analysis and Invention
CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES
Monday January 13th to Friday January 17th
Wednesday, January 15th: Three-hour visit to the Prado
«Realizamos análisis de las obras de arte, no porque queramos copiarlas, sino para ponernos en movimiento». – Paul Klee
«Dirígete a los maestros. Habla con ellos, ellos te responderán, porque todavía viven. Son ellos los que te instruirán» – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Paintings from the Museo del Prado collection will be the point of departure for exploration of pictorial structure and invention. We will work from reproductions of European art’s greatest treasures. Included at the midpoint of the workshop is a visit to the Prado to see the works in person. Mediums will include graphite, charcoal, collage, acrylic and/or oil paint. Each participant will look deeply at one or two images and generate permutations through simplification and abstraction. This rigorous and wide-ranging analysis of images from our painting ancestors will feed our own work and imaginations as we engage with images that speak to us still
Recommended: start with one image that you would like to work with all week, in various media. Bring a few extra images (postcards, printouts from online, etc.) in case you exhaust the possibilities or your interest in the first image.
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