Earlier this month, faculty member Steven Meek gave a talk about his work in the Art Studio of John Cabot University. Sadly we couldn’t be there however Steven has kindly sent us through a summary of the evenings discussion points which we can share with you here… Continue reading Sculpted Paintings
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How to Draw A Painting
How can knowing how to draw make me a better painter? This is a question that many artists used to ask, until in many ways the Impressionist movement detached oil, pastel, and watercolor work from any responsibility to what one might call an underdrawing. In many ways, the Italian painter Caravaggio, whose great canvases of varied religious subjects revolutionized Rome in the early 1600s, was the first Western artist to defy the academic pedagogy of drawing and to flaunt that tradition by leaving not a single trace of pencil or crayon drawing preliminary to his oil compositions and by exiling from his compositions any statuary or architecture that might vaguely suggest an academic element like drawing in his creative act. Continue reading How to Draw A Painting
How can knowing how to draw make me a better painter? This is a question that many artists used to ask, until in many ways the Impressionist movement detached oil, pastel, and watercolor work from any responsibility to what one might call an underdrawing. In many ways, the Italian painter Caravaggio, whose great canvases of varied religious subjects revolutionized Rome in the early 1600s, was the first Western artist to defy the academic pedagogy of drawing and to flaunt that tradition by leaving not a single trace of pencil or crayon drawing preliminary to his oil compositions and by exiling from his compositions any statuary or architecture that might vaguely suggest an academic element like drawing in his creative act. Profile: Edina Eszenyi
Continuing our series profiling the Rome Art Program Faculty, today we chat with our resident Art Historian Edina Eszenyi and find out more about her Rome…Summer 2016 And The Aha! Feeling
Just as I often hear it said that there are many Romes to discover (depending on the individual person who walking it, visiting its many time-hallowed sites and asking The City his or her own questions) there is always a brand new R.A.P. Semester; receiving not only a fresh group of eager artists but even some of the same teachers as they explore ever new methods for making Rome speak to each of their art students in a highly personable and meaningful way. Continue reading Summer 2016 And The Aha! Feeling
Profile: Anthony Lombardi
Today we are chatting with Anthony Lombardi, one of our Drawing Instructor’s on the program and finding out his secret Rome… Continue reading Profile: Anthony Lombardi