Practical and Contemporary art - Six-Week-Courses-in-Italy - Art History Abroad

Drawing

Throughout the courses, and at no extra charge, there is an artist among the staff who is there to instruct on an informal basis those who would like to improve their drawing. Artists as educators have become an imperative part of the process of studying painting and sculpture both old and new. They bring a different focus to works allowing the rest of us to grasp the real power of the creative process. Artists can offer a new approach to study for example; Michelangelo Buonarrotti can be studied either as the canonical grand master of the Renaissance or as a man having the ability to create work that has never been perfectly copied, even with contemporary means of replication. In addition, in recent courses we have studied the practical creation of the altarpiece by producing our own with gesso, egg tempera and gold leaf.