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Painting and Drawing
This course focuses on drawing and painting and the importance of one to the other.
Students will generally draw from the figure in the morning, working from several
different poses, and paint from the figure in the afternoon, working from the same pose
over a period of a few weeks. Students will be encouraged to work on more than one
painting at a time and to draw whenever they are moved to do so.
Drawing will be presented as the key to the visual language öö to understanding
plasticity and visual form. Concepts such as shift, swirl (drawing the figure from the
inside out), rhythm, plane, shape, tone, space and volume, will be explored, alone and in
relation to their role in unifying a visual statement over the whole rectangle. Historical
examples from Piero through DeKooning will be presented. Students will be encouraged
to always be drawing in their paintings, moving the form, finding it anew, and
discovering new ideas. In the end, we may see how painting and drawing are the same
thing.
Henry Finkelstein received an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art and a
B.F.A. from Cooper Union.
To learn more about Mr. Finkelstein, please visit his Web site:
www.henryfinkelstein.com.
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