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Drawing and Painting Workshop
Robert Cenedella is a master of pictorial satire and fantasy, justly celebrated for his paintings revealing all aspects of big city life. As part of New Yorkâs art community for over three decades, he paints everything and everybody from cameo likenesses of celebrities to those of the common man. His pictures of subways, symphonies, sports arenas, street scenes and drinking establishments are quintessentially New York.
M. K. Flavell, in George Grosz, A Biography, said of Cenedella that, "no other artist chronicles the everyday life and the changing rituals and mythologies÷ of sex, sport, art, politics, moneymaking in contemporary America, with his combination of imaginative vitality, precision, and humor."
Massachusetts-born, the artist has lived most of his life in New York, at an early age studying with George Grosz at the Art Students League and then with Marshall Glasier. He has had one-man shows throughout the United States and Europe. His first Berlin exhibition In Search of DADA was in 1994 and coincided with the George Grosz Centennial Exhibition at the National Galerie in Berlin. He returned to Germany in October 2006 for a one-man retrospective at the Otto-Nagel Galerie, also in Berlin. His renowned mural of the original Le Cirque restaurant in New York City, Le Cirque, the 1st Generation, was recently installed at the restaurantâs new location on East 58th Street. Other notable murals include Mi Casa, Su Casa for Bacardi International, Tonyâs World, commissioned by the late Tony Randall for former League model Heather Randall, and his Absolut Cenedella commissions can be seen on his Web site at www.rcenedellagallery.com.
Mr. Cenedella feels that drawing is the most demanding and most disciplined endeavor for any student to undertake, but also the most rewarding.Training each student personally to acquire a basic skill in drawing the human figure, no matter what the eventual style or mode of expression may be, he believes the ultimate goal is to be able to "think" with the hand. He continues the large format concept of drawing passed down from Mr. Grosz.
The painting workshop offers a positive approach for both beginner and seasoned student. Mr. Cenedella stresses the importance of a sound knowledge of materials and techniques, but strongly encourages experimentation with both materials and ideas, whether in still life, the human figure or one's own fantasy, in order for each student to find a personal expression.
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