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Still Life Painting: Life and Death in the Balance

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  • 18 hours over 6 sessions

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  • Skips Nov 25

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Class Description

Description

From the beginning, still life has been presented as humble in scope and subject, but this quiet genre is filled with the dirty secrets of existence: impermanence, tragedy, faith, science, memory, opulence, life, and death. In this class with Zane York students will develop a painting using strategies derived from the history of still life, with focus placed on the Dutch Golden age. Students will learn conceptual, compositional, and technical still life strategies. 

Although utilizing traditional techniques, the paintings developed will be open in subject and palette according to students’ personal vision. Each week students’ progress will be reviewed, followed by lecture and demonstration. 

Week 1: “Triple Dutch: Houding, Reddering, and Schicking” (Compositional Strategy)

Week 2: “What’s the Big Idea?” (Content and Meaning in Still Life)

Week 3: “Wo/manhandled” (The Role of Brushwork in Painting)

Week 4: “The Liars Club” (Imagined Elements in Compositions)

Week 5: “Getting Around to It” (The Use of Indirect Techniques)

Week 6: “Polishing the…Painting, Without Gilding the Lily” (Refining, Finishing, and Further Inquiries.)

*“Foundational Still Life Painting” is recommended as a prerequisite for this class.

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This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

100% refund will be issued up to seven days after the first class. After this, no refund will be issued.

MAKE-UP POLICY
Unfortunately, we do not offer makeup classes. The instructor can tell them what they missed. Most of our classes are taught atelier style. If there is a demonstration during the particular session, after the demonstration the instructor goes to each student to work with them on a one-to-one basis. During this time the instructor can work with the student who missed the previous week, talk with them and explain what to do.

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  • Still Life Painting: Life and Death in the Balance

    I’m glad I get a chance to say how great the class was and the teacher who ran it. Dutch still-life techniques were meticulously researched and presented and the professor gave a lot of his free time to answer my questions and concerns. I’m a big fan.
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At the New York Academy of Art, we believe that the world of visual art is built upon the essential cornerstones of figurative drawing, painting, and sculpture. Mastering these disciplines is critical to the development of an artist's personal vision and, ultimately, to the creation of vital contemporary...
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