COURSE CODE: E2401P15
COURSE DATES: Mondays, 16th September - 25th November 2024
TUTOR: Juan Bolivar
DAYS: 10
TIMES: 10:30am – 4:30pm
EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Ages 18+, All Levels
FEE: £675
LOCATION: Bankside Campus, 185 Park Street, SE1 9SH
Investigating colour as form will enable you to think about colour theory and explore a synthesis of processes, structure and surface. You will be encouraged to consider how you develop a composition, specificity of colour choice and surface fracture (handling of the paint). You will be encouraged to experiment with the interaction of colour throughout the course; its fluidity, chromatic value, scale and dynamic juxtapositions.
The context and theory will be important in underpinning your initial exploration. Your relationship with the mechanics of painting will develop from collage experiments particularly focused on colour contrast and form. The collages produced will be a spring-board for a series of abstract colour compositions. We will explore a range of artists from Matisse to the colour field painters such as Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler and contemporary colourists such as Sarah Morris, Tauber Auerbach, Selma Parlour and others.
Students will be able to:
This course is part of our Elective Skills Workshop series. You will be studying alongside students from our pre-degree and degree programmes. Check out the Elective Skills Workshops currently available.
Recommend booking by: September 2, 2024
All attendees must be aged 18 and over.
This course is suitable for all levels. Students can move at their own pace depending on their experience, with as much support from the Tutor as they wish. This means an student from the following experience levels can join this course:
Choose a Beginners course if you are looking for a broad introduction to the medium you are studying. Our Beginner courses are suitable for students with no prior experience.
Choose a Beginner + course if you are looking to hone your skills, focus on a specific subject area and build your confidence. These courses are suitable for those with some basic skills in and knowledge of the taught medium.
Our Intermediate courses are suitable for students who have considerable prior knowledge of the taught medium or have completed a Beginners/Beginners + course with the Art Academy.
Choose our Advanced courses if you have considerable knowledge in the taught medium. You are expected to be able to work independently and have critical discussions around your work.All Levels
Beginner
Beginner +
Intermediate
Advanced
YOU MUST BRING YOUR OWN MATERIALS.
The Academy is a white spirit and turpentine free environment and only odourless spirits, such as Zest-it or Sansodor, are permitted on the premises. Students must provide their own spirits, which can be recycled for longevity.
We request that you bring 2 small jars (one with a lid, one without) to hold your spirit, and a few cloths rags for brush cleaning (such as an old cotton t-shirt).
As part of the course, students try out lots of different materials and mediums, external to more conventional painting materials you might already be familiar with (e.g. glosses, mediums, varnishes, etc.) This incurs a cost which is divided equally amongst students, so please be aware there will be a £10 fee to pay in the first 2 weeks of the course for these materials.
Below is a list of what is generally required for the course. Please also check the ‘what to bring’ sections above for specific weekly instruction. Your tutor will advise if further materials or equipment are required as the course progresses.
If you do not have your own painting materials, there is an option to order a Painting Pack at the time of booking which will be available when you arrive for your first class. You can purchase this via the following link; http://artacademy.org.uk/evening-classes/materials/
An Oil Painting Pack (£75.00) contains:
An Acrylic Painting Pack (£60.00) contains:
Certain materials can also be purchased from the Academy shop during shop hours. Please check in advance of your class if the item you require is available, as the Academy may not stock all items listed above.
Juan Bolivar is a Venezuelan born British artist and lecturer in Painting at the University of the Arts London. Bolivar graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2003. His work is included in The Government Art Collection, and selected for significant exhibitions such as New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton (2004), East International at Norwich School of Art (2007), Nanjing International (2015) where he was a prize winner, and has twice been a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner award (2001/2009). He is a contributor to Turps Magazine. Recent residencies and exhibitions include Macro Museum, Rome (2019), Bauhaus Museum, Dessau (2019) and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2021). His paintings negotiate the tension between meaning and form. He combines elements from disparate sources to investigate hybridity, language and abstraction. Bolivar’s work often re-enacts seminal cannons of modernist painting such as Kazimir Malevich’s ‘black square’ or paintings from Malevich’s late period; using this context of interpretation to create new meanings from the sublime to the ridiculous. https://juanbolivar.com/
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£675.00