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Figure Painting — Tradition vs. Contemporary

Name: Figure Painting — Tradition vs. Contemporary
Price: 440.00 EUR

Seven weeks, two approaches: learn the academic tradition of oil figure painting, then take it apart to find your own.

Dozent*in

Sofia Zuluaga

Umfang

7 Kurstage · 21 h

Ort

Wien

Sofia Zuluaga · Masculinity

Worum es geht

Learning to break a rule well requires understanding it first. Over seven weeks, this course moves through two distinct approaches to oil figure painting: a rigorous engagement with the academic tradition, followed by a structured exploration of how that foundation can be stretched, subverted, and made personal.

The first three sessions are devoted to a single painting, built slowly in layers, from first marks to finished surface. From session four on, the pace changes: one new painting per session, each guided by a different theme. A live model is present throughout, and every participant receives individual feedback across all seven sessions.

What you need to bring is some painting experience and an interest in working from life. You don't need to have painted from a model before, and while familiarity with oils, anatomy and proportion is welcome, neither is a requirement.

Das lernst du

The academic method of oil figure painting, from first block-in to finished surface
Contemporary approaches to figurative painting: techniques, materials, and conceptual starting points
Working with composition, form, light, and color as distinct creative entry points into a painting
Painting from a live model across an extended, structured timeframe
Developing a personal visual language as a synthesis of observation and learned technique