[BwayDems] Summer Class on Drawing and Architecture taught by Bway Dem member

[Gretchen Borges]

*PRATT INSTITUTE    SUMMER PROGRAM*

*Drawing and Architecture Workshop:  *

* *

* Section 1:  Sat 11 AM–2:45 PM*

* 5 sessions June 2–30*

* Lois Lazarus*

* PMFA 511 18.75 C.E.U. $285*



*Registration open until the 25th***



Europe’s Masterpieces at the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art and
MoMA In this unique five-week studio work-shop at three major museums
you will explore the historical influence of Western art and civilization
from 12th-century Medievalism through to the Renaissance and other
movements on the aesthetic vitality of modern and contemporary 20th-century
art.



Through the media of drawing, the class will embark on an analytical survey
of specific works at: the Tuscan monastery on the Hudson; the Cloisters, a
branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum; and the
MoMA.



You will freely explore and creatively interpret the historically complex
visual inter-relationship where, regardless of era and -ism, artists
pursued the common

thread of knowledge, finding inspiration and a personal, creative
expression, “reintroducing fragments of reality of the past,” as Roy
Lichentstein noted.



Using graphite, lithograph, Sharpie crayons, pencils, and small
spiral sketchpads, students will dissect a painting, tapestry, and/or
sculpture to discover how artists expressively and dramatically structured
one-, two-, and three-dimensional space. You will learn spatial conceits,
form, tone, movement, chiaroscuro, and texture through examples and the
practice of various linear techniques and

methodology to visually communicate a specific message. Emphasis is on
intellectual, societal, cultural, political, and emotional studies from
Leonardo da

Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Salvador Dali, Paul Klee, Pablo
Picasso,

Thomas Eakins, Sargent, Norman Rockwell, Modigliani, Jackson
Pollack, Rivera, De Kooning and  Bearden



Topics include: how modern and contemporary art relates to the past with

examples of relationships, from Piero della Francesca to Francisco Goya to

Arshile Gorky.Geary, Bauhaus , Pei, Wright , Johnson.



Homework will include: Developing conceptual independence based on personal
resource notebooks and museum studies.







*Recommended Texts:* ISMs:

*Understanding Art *by Stephen Little (Universe Press);

*History of Beauty* (Umberto Eco Rizzoli Press);

*On Modern American Art* (Harry Abrams Publisher)



*Recommended DVDs:*

Select History of Art DVD’s (Gothic, Medieval, Greco Roman), etc.



*Please note the following:*

Students will bring drawing materials, watercolor trays, pen and ink, and
sketchpads, including newsprint pads, for class use.



•  Exhibition of student work: To be determined.

•  Museum Fees:

MoMA: free with Student I.D.;

Cloisters and The Met: $4.00



•  Section 1:  Sat 11 AM–2:45 PM

 5 sessions June 2–30



 Lois Lazarus

 PMFA 511 18.75 C.E.U. $285



 PROFESSOR LAZARUS
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