Painting today is vigorously developing, it is creative, vibrant, and occupies one of the main places in contemporary art as a mode of creative expression. This program is not only about the technical, but also about the creative side of painting. The program will teach about color and light, working with paints and working with portfolios, sketches and approaches, and not forgetting a brief history of painting and its context.

The main goal is to give participants a concept of creative freedom along with a set of professional skills and abilities for their own creative method. It is important not just to expand knowledge of what painting is today, but also to help shape one’s own approach and try as many traditional techniques as possible as well as original ones.

Objectives:

• To demonstrate what contemporary painting looks like now, what its history is, what context exists today
• Through communication with practicing artists and curators give an understanding of how painting lives today
• To enable the participant to learn painting techniques that will help shape the creative self of the painter

The class will include meetings with members of the contemporary art community: painters, multidisciplinary artists, and curators.

FOR WHOM IS THE PROGRAM
For those who have chosen painting as a creative direction in the visual arts and now want to master techniques, skills and methods.

For those who are passionate about drawing and regularly practice painting, but lack of knowledge and creative thinking prevents them from developing their own artistic practice.

For all those who are interested in modern painting and are ready to try their hand at it, but don’t know where to start.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN AND WHAT YOU WILL LEARN.
Learn about the most striking approaches in painting of the 20th and 21st centuries;
Understand how to apply these approaches in your own painting practice;
You will understand the trends in painting and be able to assess the relevance of this or that technique;
Gain an understanding of how painting has evolved over the past 150 years;
Learn different painting techniques, methods and practices from the 20th and 21st centuries, learn how to use them and choose the most appropriate and relevant one for your creative tasks (collage techniques, light, color, texture, perspective, assemblage, oil, canvas, etc.);
Be able to distinguish between painting approaches by formal and other attributes;
Learn how to frame your ideas, how to prepare portfolios and sketches;
Analyze how communication works within a gallery and between the curator and the artist;
Learn to talk about your work and present it with an understanding of how painting operates in the contemporary art world.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

Block 1: Introduction to Materials. What contemporary painting looks like now. The concept of light and color.
Block 2. Stylization, texture and texture.
Block 3. oil work, basics of oil work, basics of cv, portfolio, communication with galleries.
Block 4. Mixed techniques of oil work, painting as an object. Composition in exhibiting.