Painting on Panels
Dates:
August 15-29, 2008
Price:
$3,300
Program Coordinator:
Margaret Krug
Address:
248 Mulberry Street
Telephone:
212-941-5941
Fax:
212-570-7711
E-mail:
margaret.krug@gmail.com or margaret_krug@whitney.org
Preferred method of contact:
email
Description:
Focus on traditional painting methods and their contemporary application including encaustic used in the Fayum region of ancient Egypt, egg tempera from early Renaissance Siena and oil painting from Renaissance Venice. Prepare small wood panels with traditional gesso ground. Produce paint by combining dry pigments with either beeswax, egg, milk glue or oil. Technical proficiency is encouraged through a two step process - copying the techniques employed in master paintings and creating an original work using the same methods. Create a set of technical examples to use as visual reference as well as a cohesive body of original work. Day trips, with art history lectures and sketchbook exercises, to museums and other sites in Siena, Florence and surrounding towns enable students to examine the cultural/historic context of methods and concepts presented in the course. Critiques and thematic assignments encourage access to personal vision.
Coordinator Biography:
Margaret Krug, Painter, MFA, painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibitions: AIR Gallery, The Window Gallery, The Painting Center, The NIX Gallery, Vlepo Gallery, Next Space Gallery, The Creative Center, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Art Institute of Chicago, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Taller De Arte El Nix in Mexico. Awards for painting: George D. and Isabella Brown Traveling Fellowship, artist residency in Cabris, France. Visiting artist/lecturer: Taller De Arte El Nix, Mexico. Taught painting at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Teaches Painting on Panels and Seeing & Drawing at the Castello di Spannocchia in Italy, Senior Lecturer at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Adjunct Professor, painting and drawing, at Parsons School of Design. Publication: Margaret Krug, An Artist’s Handbook: Materials and Techniques, New York: Harry N. Abrams and London: Laurence King Publishing, distributed worldwide by Thames and Hudson, November, 2007.
“Excellent all around-great balance of artistic work and field trips, very nicely organized.”
“Bravo to the Spannocchia staff. You do a magnificent job!”
“Focus on Spannocchia, the place. Do not try to bring your life with you;
just immerse yourself in the life that is offered at Spannocchia.”