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Painting and Drawing workshop in Andalucia, Spain - Summer 2008 |
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This summer take the trip that will simultaneously submerge you in European art and culture, while stretching the limits of your creativity. With sketchbooks constantly at hand, you will visit palaces, beautiful mountain villages, and masterpieces of Islamic architecture, culminating in a 4-day art workshop in Mojacar, a small Mediterranean village. Julia Townsend and Dr. Marcelo Lima have spent their lives traveling, visiting museums, and making art. Here is the opportunity to join them on a Spanish creative workshop experience. For art lovers, Madrid is a paradise. We'll begin with three days to study and sketch from Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces (El Greco, Goya, Velazquez, Ribera, Bosch, Durer, Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Titian), 19th Century (Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, van Gogh), and 20th century masterpieces (Dali, Miro, Gris, Picasso, including his Guernica mural). After the big city, we'll drive with our own coach through Castilla-La Mancha (Don Quixote country), into the heart of Andalucia, where we visit the Mezquita of Cordoba for one day, move onto Granada and the Alhambra (castle/museum) for two days, and spend a day in the Alpujarras, the nearby mountain villages. With sketchbooks and cameras full, we will set up in Mojacar, a beautiful village two kilometers from the beach, built on a hill at the end of a mountain range. Minimum number of participants: 14 Your creativity The workshop is designed for participants of all levels of experience in the visual arts, from beginners to advanced practitioners. Through interaction with the instructors, other artists, and the sights of Spain - the cultural and historical variety of a splendidly diverse country and the immensely rich tradition of Spanish Art - participants will develop their powers of observation and imagination. The Drawing and Painting Workshop will focus, on one hand, on the relations of artists to the environment, both physical and symbolic, elaborating on their impressions and reactions to the different sites visited. The fundamental idea here is "the 'journey' as a metaphor for the creative process itself." (M. Lima) In this perspective, we can consider the creative process as an amalgamation of memory and discovery, that is, developing on one hand from the experiences we bring from our past and, on the other hand, from the openness to the present and orientation to the future that characterizes the work of art (both as process and as a product). Workshop leaders Julia Townsend and Dr. Marcelo Lima will discuss your artistic strengths and how best to maximize them. By traveling with a group of artists and under expert guidance, you will be more than just a tourist. Instead of merely snapping photos, you will be sketching a bullfight like Picasso, capturing a Spanish landscape like Sorolla or David Bomberg, or making studies from a real Velazquez right before your eyes. Many have artistic ambitions when they travel, but without the encouragement of others, the sketchbooks often come back empty. Surrounded by other artists, (but with enough personal time each day as well), you will become part of acollaborative project; indeed collaborative works may be one of the results ofthis trip! We are not just going to Spain to eat good food and lie in the sun.This is a ‘working holiday;' the rewards of which you will benefit from for yearsto come: a unique opportunity to develop your individual artistic vision. The instructors are fluent in various languages and instruction can be conducted in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Turkish.
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