In the beginning was the blank canvas… This is taken literally insofar as the course offered aims to cover everything from stretching the canvas to the finished painted background.
Working with things – learning composition and the construction of a picture and developing rules for it.
From simple object structures to sophisticated still lifes, the basics are created for representational painting. This is implemented with oil or egg tempera painting.
Seeing and observing is the starting point for achieving clarity in pictorial representation. This includes an understanding of space, light, perspective, atmosphere, light-dark, three-dimensionality on the surface, physicality, materiality, contrasts.
One focus of this course is on the technical translation of the pictorial idea into a perfect pictorial composition.
Practical work and theoretical discussion complement each other and should lead to a clarification and expansion of one’s own pictorial language.
The question that arises in front of the picture is: “HOW was the picture painted?” in addition to the WHY and WHAT is to be expressed with it.
