Amelie von Wulffen
How does the world come into the picture? / 18.08.2014–30.08.2014
Medium/Media: Drawing, watercolour and oil painting, photo collage, comic stripLocation: Festung Hohensalzburg
Languages: German, English
What to bring: Preferred painting and drawing utensils, sketch-book; paints, pencils, paper and canvases (these can be purchased in the Fortress shop); camera and laptop (if available); illustrations of interest to you (your own archive material, e.g. photos, book illustrations, art reproductions, and copies of your own works).
Requirements: None – but visual thinking, artistic practice, open-mindedness and interests outside the arts would be an advantage.
Maximum number of participants: 20
Co-teacher: Jonas Lipps, Mark van Yetter
What to bring: Preferred painting and drawing utensils, sketch-book; paints, pencils, paper and canvases (these can be purchased in the Fortress shop); camera and laptop (if available); illustrations of interest to you (your own archive material, e.g. photos, book illustrations, art reproductions, and copies of your own works).
Requirements: None – but visual thinking, artistic practice, open-mindedness and interests outside the arts would be an advantage.
Maximum number of participants: 20
Co-teacher: Jonas Lipps, Mark van Yetter
FULLY BOOKED
How does a picture come into being? We will consider this question, and work on ways to appropriate a subject and develop it into a picture. These include, for instance, drawing and painting from nature, from models and from imagination. This soon leads to fundamental questions on painting.
The course is designed for artists in painting and drawing, with a variety of keen interests and the wish to examine, deepen and expand their pictorial language. In individual and group discussions we will look for links with other artists, consider methods of visualisation (including some from non-artistic areas), and thus try to identify the intrinsic quality of each picture produced. Besides examining representational forms of expression, we will include procedures that allow scope for chance and colour to influence a picture.
We will also ask other questions. What do I paint for, and where will my pictures go? What kind of presentation, display, and space do I have in mind? Why do I draw or paint things I could also photograph? Our aim is to evolve a lively, well-considered, up-to-date pictorial language.
Biography:
Amelie von Wulffen