GOALS OF THE ART - POLI PROGRAM
Technique and Skill
Process
Creativity
Exploration / History
Critical Analysis / Evaluation
Marketing Art
TECHNIQUE
Artists are exposed to a variety of exercises from simple to complex.
Each assignment guides and fosters
the necessary developmental process in painting.
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Assignments include, learning the tools and techniques necessary to develop a finished painting, by learning color theory, the color wheel, color mixing, blending, proportion, contour, volume, depth, and texture.
Advanced techniques include advanced oil and acrylic mediums, techniques of color theory, palette knife painting, scumbling, glazing, varnishing and washes.
PROCESS
Participants have assignments that promote the process in painting. Documentation of growth and change will cited be in their journals.
CREATIVITY
Understanding art as a form of personal expression and creativity.
Learning new ways to explore and express your individuality or painterly voice.
Discovering imagination as a source of expression.
ART - POLI participants will learn through exploration of the creative self. Painting sessions will encourage techniques that stimulate creativity. These include keeping a personal pictorial journal (in words and images).
Sessions will include emerging in other forms of self expression, including music, reading and writing. Famous artists and art history will be introduced by museum and art tours.
CLASSES OFFERED
PAINTING AND DRAWING ON LOCATION
ART HISTORY
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SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
Painting and Sculpture from Gothic to Contemporary
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Women Painters in Spain and Portugal
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Spanish and Portuguese Painters from Romanticism to Contemporary Art
Painting the Macabre
A Study on the Style of Vanitas, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Flanders Art
(Includes art history studying frescoes from Hrastovlje, tapestries, manuscript illuminators, memento mori, Triptych, and funerary art)
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The Study of Ancient and Modern Spanish Architecture and its relationship to painting
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CERAMICS
PHOTOGRAPHY
The Birth of Photography and its relationship to Painting
The Birth of Photography and its Effects on Spanish and Portuguese Art
Studying the Camera
Photography on Location
Film on Location
Capturing the Moment
Landscapes and People
MUSIC AND DANCE
PHILOSOPHY
The Spanish Philosophers
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LITERATURE and CREATIVE WRITING
Spanish Romanticism in Literature
The History of Spanish and Portuguese Poetry
Creative Writing
JOURNALS AND SCRAPBOOKING
For CULINARY / OENOLOGY / JEWELRY STUDIES see "PROGRAMS" link on
ART - POLI website.
EXPLORATION AND HISTORY
Developing art appreciation.
Understanding painting by studying art techniques and styles, through art history and museum field trips.
Learning different ways to see and document art by developing an art vocabulary, from viewing works in museums, galleries, fashion exhibits, film studios, vineyards and food markets.
Painting is a process of change and growth. Exploration is important in order to facilitate this process. Participants will have field trips to understand and see this process in action. By studying, various periods in history, participants will have exposure to how art has changed, is changing and will change. This exploration gives artists a voice in their own work of where they are, where they want to go, and how to achieve it. Field trips will not only give artists exposure to different forms of painting but an enhanced vocabulary of the materials, styles and methods used.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS / EVALUATION
Developing enhanced visual communication through art conversation and critiques.
Developing new ways to approach and solve problems.
Setting new goals.
Enhancing critical thinking skills.
Learning new ways to explore and express your individuality or painterly
voice.
Developing self awareness through character development.
Through groups and individual critiques, artists will learn how to evaluate, plan
and create their next process.
Evaluation is important in order to create goals and progress to the next level.
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It fosters growth, self awareness
and maturity, skills all necessary for professional advancement. It also helps develop an enhanced art vocabulary and critical processing skills.
MARKETING ART
Learning resources for marketing, documenting and selling ones art.
Professional portfolio presentation.
Develop a finished body of work for sale in a gallery.
As an artist, promoting your artwork is essential. Knowledge in marketing your artwork is necessary for success and advancement.
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REQUIREMENTS
Have all necessary art materials for class. Attendance and on time for sessions including field trip, critiques and final presentation. Participation for group discussions. Completion of paintings and final portfolio.
EMERGING ARTIST
Learning advance techniques in your medium.
Learning the tools and techniques necessary to develop a work of art.
Using observation, linear perspective to explore composition and form.
Improving the essential and fundamentals of paintings, using color theory, color mixing, blending, proportion, contour, volume, depth, washes, grisaille, underpainting, glazes, transparencies and texture.
Use of painting for creative expression.
Developing a since of art appreciation.
Learning different ways to see art by viewing works in museums and galleries.
Expressing different ways to document art by developing an art vocabulary.
Understanding art as a form of personal expression.
Critical thinking skills.
Self-analysis.
Enhanced visual communication.
Learning new ways to explore and express your individual vision.
Exploring imagination as a source of personal expression.
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Learning a new language and culture.
Expressing oneself in creative writing, photography, sculpture, fashion, film, and the art of food and wine.
MID LEVEL ARTIST
All of the above plus:
Exploring advanced painting techniques.
Learning abstract and contemporary theories to create finished paintings.
Advanced art vocabulary.
Advanced skills in oral presentations.
Advanced critical thinking, self exploration and analysis.
Marketing art skills including gallery presentation of artwork and portfolio design done at ART - POLI®.
ADVANCED ARTIST
All of the above plus:
Skills to set advanced goals in painting.
Learning new resources for marketing art.
Developing a finished body of work for sale.
Introduction to current modern art, skills, techniques and visions.
Professional portfolio presentation.
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