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SUMMER WORKSHOP:
This summer I will be teaching two “Figure in the Landscape”
painting workshops in Portland. They will synthesize a blending
of the figure with the landscape and a blending of what we see with
what we know. Instead of trying to mimic nature we will work
toward what Cezanne called “a parallel to nature”.
| As part of this investigation, we will discuss: |
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the difference between dark and light painting (early van
Gogh) and color painting (late Van Gogh) |
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what the French modernist painters learned from the Japanese |
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composition from observation which becomes a dynamic analogue
to what we see |
Each day we will meet in a public park where we can be insured a
shady place to work and be protected from the sun. In the mornings
I will lecture on what is pertinent for the day and we will have
coffee. We will draw and paint through the day from the model
(clothed) and the landscape. At the end of the day we will
gather to discuss the work created that session and probably drink
a cold beer/lemonade. Please note, if this sounds like meeting
at someone’s house to paint and drink, IT IS NOT. This
is a rigorous course designed to push painters towards a deeper
level of understanding regarding their craft and a higher level
of artistic potentiality.
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Summer Workshop (A): |
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9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| Dates: |
July 27th (Monday) – July 31st (Friday) |
| Tuition: |
$350 (includes model fees and morning/afternoon drinks) |
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Summer Workshop (B): |
| Times: |
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| Dates: |
August 3rd(Monday) – August 7th (Friday) |
| Tuition: |
$350 (includes model fees and morning/afternoon drinks) |
Materials list and other information will be provided a week before
each session begins.ŬIf you need an easel and a board I will be
glad to provide them for you; let me know.
Since 1994, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (ranked
number one with Yale as the top art schools in the nation) has flown
me back there to teach “Figure in the Landscape”. This
year I am staying here and I hope you will join me to paint. I
look forward to these sessions.
CLASS REGISTRATION:
Please email me to register for the class: josephemann@msn.com
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TESTIMONIALS:
"Your classes have taught me to ask what is essential?
What do I care about? What have I overlooked? You taught
me to continue searching for the balance between the
poetic and the structural. You created a safe environment
in which I am free to paint, draw and face the demons
of the day." Julie Davis, Intensive student
"In all the years I've spent as a student, I have
never had a more positively influential teacher."
Susan Nelson, PSU Student
"I am endlessly impressed with your capacity to
hold all of us, as we struggle and evolve and slip ahead
and back again. I don't see how you do it, but am grateful
for your strength and steadiness. I thought again about
the critique and how carefully and consistently you
handled reticence. You stayed your course, didn't recoil,
didn't try to fix people, met each person where they
stood—that in itself is a great lesson to those
of us present, since in the end all there is to do is
witness the storms, have compassion, stay the course
and keep painting." Sally Retecki, Intensive
student
"Joseph Mann is one of those extraordinary teachers
who combines a rich and deep knowledge of art history
with a keen eye for teaching to the individual. He is
one of the few who could be called a ‘master teacher’."
E.W. Ross, Dean
Division of Continuing Studies and Special Programs
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ox-Box Program Director
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