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Performing Arts, Creative Arts and Design

Free Your Painting

When:

19 August - 02 September 2023

School:

Bauhaus Summer School

Institution:

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

City:

Weimar

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Credits:

3.0 EC

Fee:

890 EUR

Interested?
Please note: this course has already ended
Free Your Painting

About

“Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?” Kandinsky.

Aimed at the painter, fine art student or individual who employs paint as part of their wider creative practice (i.e. design, architecture). The course offers a chance to stretch your understanding and abilities of rendering materials, tints, splatters and pigment while testing what it is to paint amongst our current, expanded realms of painting.

Practical, hands-on (group and individual) exercises will kick start the course, e.g., effecting pigment, use of grounds, surface and layering with new possibilities for handling and applying materials. Experimentation will invite participants to further examine paintings’ traits: colour and light; shape and line; space and scale; surface and spatial depth; illusion, allusion and expression.

Over the two week period, artist Alex Roberts will provide a platform that collaboratively exposes new modes of agency, materials, extends technical skills; expanding current methodologies and experience – facilitating a painting exchange. Participants will be given the chance to view the exclusive collections in the Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Neues Museum Weimar, and receive a series of presentations, and discourse about contemporary painting. The play with materials, rethinking of processes will be accompanied by critique, culminating with open ateliers to share identified findings.

Course leader

Alex Roberts Artist - painter. Painting, drawing, fine art, installation, collaboration, curating, educator.

Target group

The course is geared towards all student groups from fields such as fine arts, visual arts, design, and architecture (BA to PhD students).

Fee info

Fee

890 EUR, 690 EURO for students & alumni 350 EURO for BUW students The course fee includes: - Orientation & Support - Programme according to description - Teaching materials - Bauhaus Summer School ID card - Daily Lunch at the University Cafeteria (Monday - Friday) - Certificate - Internet access at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Free use of library - Accompanying programme including excursions - Free entrance to museums belonging to Klassik Stiftung Weimar The course fee does NOT include: - Travel costs - Accommodation - Insurance - Additional module(s) (190 €)

Interested?

When:

19 August - 02 September 2023

School:

Bauhaus Summer School

Institution:

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Language:

English

Credits:

3.0 EC

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