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Painting from Life/Drawing
This course will sequentially present fundamental and advanced concepts of visual perception and their application to composing, drawing and painting from direct observation. A thorough understanding of the visual experience and of the human figure is essential for anyone wishing to express and translate these elements to the picture plane. Separating the elements, studying them independently, re-constructing and combining them with the other elements to create well unified and holistic painting, will foster the student's ability to perceive the visual experience with intelligence, apply this knowledge to their work, and cultivate an ability to problem-solve and self-correct through the process of building paintings and drawings.
Working on two- to four-week poses, students will explore the elements of proportion, gesture, perspective, light on form, value and color and composition and design through constructing paintings in oil, and oil over a tempera under-painting.
Michael Grimaldi has studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League, the National Academy , the New York Studio School , the Ecole Albert Defois and the Water Street Atelier. He has also conducted independent studies in anatomy and dissection at Faculdad Medicina , Argentina .
Mr. Grimaldi has taught figure drawing and painting at the School of Visual Arts , the National Academy , Studio 126, the Water Street Atelier, all in New York ; the Seattle Academy of Fine Arts, Washington and Studio Incamminati, Pennsylvania .
Exhibitions include Arcadia Gallery, Forum Gallery, the National Academy Museum, all in New York; Arnot Museum, Forbes Magazine Collection and The John Pence Gallery, California.
Awards include The Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant (1993), Stacey Foundation Grant (1998, 1999), The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (1999, 2002) and an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship from The Forbes Foundation (2002).
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