art course
European Art Course
by Chris Herdel
Chris is a painter and photographer from Prague. He is also teaching as a free lecturer for European Art at academy of fine arts in Prague and other venues such as Mimar Sinan University in İstanbul.
The course is divided in a theoretical (art history-history of Europe) and a practical part (drawing / painting/ paperworks)
1. Art history: European Tradition and Modernity
In the theoretical part of the workshop significant pictures of the European art history are analyzed. This is helpful for the students own research of his personal relation to the huge pictorial heritage in Europe produced in the last 3000 years. Ongoing traditions of the European iconography are explained with the help of videoprojections. These artworks reflect the development of European hıstory of which examples will be given.
Modern art is developed in Europe at the turn of the 20th century, erasing step by step the traditional patterns and replacing them by concepts drawn from either primitive cultures or the old testament. The modern approach of the last 100 years until nowadays is explained in the talks explaining the modern image as a metaphor for modern society.
In the last part of the workshop philosophy and criteria on how to assess contemporary artworks will be given.
2. Practice
İn the practical part participants are guided towards an active understanding of the image.
A person can only produce the image which vaguely exists in his memory. By actively drawing or painting the student / participant is giving a shape to his “vague memories”. By doing so he is enabled to focus on his identity and psychological status. In this way painting is a good means for resetting the own psychological health, a sort of psychotherapy.
We are training:
-the choosing of a subject matter
-its composition
-use of colours and lines.
-figure drawing
İn the first 3 sessions we ll focus on technical skills, in the last 2 sessions we approach art matters. We will use watercolour , drawing and mixed techniques to express and develop our skills.
Participants should bring their materials. (Paper, colours, etc)
3.duration:
5 days, ca. 4 hours per day / partly on natural sites such as Aktas beach near to PATIKA.
2 courses will be offered: 1. the last week of may and 2.the first week of june.
4.fees:
50 E / adult / workshop
prices for accomodation and food:
tents: 15 euro/P/d
bungalow , shared bathroom : 25 euro/P/d
shared rooms in a stone house, private bathroom: 30 euro/person/day
breakfast and dinner is included, food is organic, mostly from the own garden.
herbal teas are all included.
yoga lessons in the morning are offered on a donation base
you have opportunity to do yoga, tracking, and swimming
we can also arrange private boat trips. Please check more about the location at https://www.patikadayolculuk.com/index-eng.html
5.Participants.
The course addresses to professionals, students of fine art faculties, art amateurs.
minimum participants should be 6, maximum 15. Participants should bring their painting material (paper, pencils, brushes, etc.)
6.Lecturing will be offered in English, but other languages such as Turkish, French , German etc. will be used according the situation. As the talks are widely based on the display of pictures there is no major language problem.
7. Location
the workshop will take place in Yoga Kamp Patika, Faralya, Turkey.
Faralya is a small village at the seaside near the town of Fethyie. Nearest airport is Dalaman, (70km from Fethyie) but Antalya or Bodrum are also possible.