Seeing & Drawing
Dates:
April 25 - May 2, 2008
Price:
$2,200
Program Coordinator:
Margaret Krug
Address:
248 Mulberry Street
New York, NY 10012
Telephone:
212-941-5941
E-mail:
margaret_krug@whitney.org
Preferred method of contact:
email
Program Description:
Observe the world more deeply by drawing what you see. Learn the skills and devices to draw what you see, instead of what you think you see. Discuss the roots of drawing and its changing and enduring function while viewing historical examples. Consider the broad definition of what a drawing can be. In response to the observation of the visual material presented, work with a variety of early techniques and materials as well as experimental materials and processes.
Each material has a unique identity and response to your motive and action. Working with silver point on paper prepared with China white can demand a slow, deliberate response to visual material, and it can result in great delicacy in the nuances of light and dark. Experimenting with iron gall ink (used by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt van Rijn), allows for exquisite precision as well as rapid, loosely expressive marks and planes to articulate the fluctuating environment.
Work in relationship with the materials by letting them inform you on how to use them to represent your experience of seeing. Create notes, sketches, studies, and preliminary cartoons for more finished works as well as exploring and expanding on doodles to produce a series of works with a conceptual framework. Experimenting with erasing, tearing, reassembling, and combining media and techniques or just by switching to a new, unfamiliar medium may lead to revelatory breakthroughs in your creative vision. While working in grey, black, and white or monochromatically, you will explore the vocabulary of drawing, including line, value, composition, volume, movement, perspective, the element of time, and abstract motifs.
Day trips with art historical discussions to sites such as San Galgano, the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena, and the Etruscan Guarnacci Museum in Volterra (as well as observation of the natural surroundings at Spannocchia), will encourage the blending of history with the present as you see and draw.
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.
“Every place you look can be painted, from the stunning landscape to the more intimate lemon trees; everything is beautiful!”