DAY TWOCOLOR THAT SINGSPATTERN THAT MOVES
Asheville Art MuseumFall 2017
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
Ralph Nelson*
*Collection of Asheville Art Museum
Rod MacKillop* Walter Pach*
*AAM collection
How do you start?
Karl BodmerWilliam Bernstein*
Does realism mean it looks like a photograph?
What about suggestion?
Leaving something to the imagination?
Detail – take all the time you need
Manet Monet Van Gogh
What is ‘realism?’
Linda Larsen*
John Singer Sargent
Thin watery GlazesThick Impasto
Charles Demuth, 1930
“watercolor” techniqueWork from light to dark, allow each step to dry before proceeding to the next
Louise Stanley 1996
In ‘watercolor’ technique, color is LAYERED in TRANSPARENT washes
Emile Nolde / Georgia O’Keeffe
Emile Nolde
TREES
trees thrust out of the ground –they have figurative gesture
trees thrust out of the ground –they have figurative gesture
Leaves cluster in branches
Each branch has a top (sunlit)
and a bottom (shadowed)
Trees cast a shadow on the ground beneath them
Sunlight also comes throughthe branches (lit from behind)
John Singer Sargent
Leaves create patterns and energy
John Singer Sargent
Winslow Homer
Student work
suggest the leaves with improvised wet-in-wet blobs of color
Winslow Homer
Ann Cameron MacDonald*
Charles Hasz*
Sept 26 “Light” – dramatic light and shadow with warm/cool color combinations
Oct 3 “Layers” – painting in contrasting layers to enhance depth and energy
Oct 10 “Energy" – pattern and repetition
Oct 17 “Idea” - course project (2+ paintings due end of last class)
Oct 24 “Context” – contemporary and art historical frames of reference
Nov 7 “Critique“– and potluck