The study year is divided into two semesters. For each semester, there are three input weeks, in which intensive teaching take place. This is followed by project weeks, in which the student develops his/her own project, which is accompanied and based on the input weeks. The painting and graphic process itself is essential for all themed blocks.
Theme 1st Semester
Poetry of Colour
14th october 2024 - 18th Februar 2025
Input Weeks 14th October - 1st November 2024
Presentations 17th and 18th February 2025
Tonality - colour relationships
The central element of painting - colour tonality will be explored and experimented in this theme. Developing a practical understanding of the objectivity of colour and of the various colour intervals gives a firm basis for all genres of painting. And is essential for free colour improvisation.The relationship of painting to poetry and music will enrich this research.
Exploring and experimenting with colour intervals - tonality
Relationship of painting / drawing to poetry and music
Synaesthesia, the mixing of sensory levels: taste, smell, touch,
hearing interpreted in colour and shape
Haiku, the meeting of poetry and colour
Expressiveness of colour:What do I say with colour? What
does colour tell me?
Experimental book / Leporello research
Pigments, tempera, acrylic, inks and watercolours
Theme 2nd Semester
Human levels
17th March - 26th June 2025
Input Weeks: 17th March - 4th April 2025
Presentations: 25th and 26th of June 2025
The Four levels of the Human
The theme will include aspects of all four dimensions of the human : the physical form with the bone, inner organs and the outer appearan- ce of the figure.
The life or etheric body with the aspects of circulation, respiration and movement in space.The astral or soul body with the inner world of feelings and emotions.The human I or ego relating to the flame of the individual.
All these levels naturally interpenetrate in the living human being.
The aim of the theme is to gain a deeper overview of the human being and to find one›s own way of working with the most historically significant motif in the entire history of art - the human figure.
• Study of the anatomy and life drawing
• Body awareness exercises with movement and performance • The human and the human environment
• Portrait and the nature of the invisible
• Study of human cosmology
• The human colour spectrum – the outer and inner colours of the human- «Inkarnat»
• Oil and tempera painting techniques
• Photography and printing