|
The following university-style, Aimone Art
Workshops are designed to meet the needs of the contemporary working
artist. Each features artist/author Steven Aimone as instructor,
and each is available for arts groups and institutions everywhere.
Each is designed as a five and one-half day event, with enrollment
limited to 16. Aimone Art Services charges a flat fee of $4200 per
workshop, plus a materials fee, and lodging and transportation for
the instructor. Adaptations of these workshops to shorter time
periods (such as two or three-day formats) are available as well;
contact
us for more details. |
|
1. NONOBJECTIVE COMPOSITION
An exciting and challenging introduction to the language
of non-objective design (abstract composition). Explores what art
can say IN ADDITION TO OR APART FROM its traditional purposes of
describing external appearances, telling literary narratives, and
expressing specific and pre-determined emotions. While the
majority of hands-on challenges are executed in painting, drawing,
and collage, this workshop is neither media not technique specific,
and no technical expertise is required. Designed for indoor
studio locations.
|
|
2. LINE AND MARK AS SUBJECT
Take part in a workshop in contemporary drawing that emphasizes the formal elements of line and mark. Explore ways in which line and mark can be the primary subject matter of a work. Investigate various ways in which they can activate pictorial space. Discover ways of organizing them into compelling compositional arrangements. Features shared, hands-on challenges and interactive group critiques. Designed for indoor studio locations.
|
|
3. SHAPE AND FORM AS SUBJECT
Explore the visual elements of shape and form – and how they can be effectively used in your work – in this contemporary, interactive workshop. Focus on non-representational design to isolate the expressive properties of these elements. What you’ll learn will make your work stronger – the principles apply equally to both representational and non-representational approaches. Features shared, hands-on challenges and interactive group critiques. Designed for indoor studio locations.
|
|
4. COMPOSTITION WITH LANDSCAPE AS REFERENCE
Explore a wide variety of ways you might abstract from
the landscape reference. Whenever you work from the landscape you
inevitably select, distill, arrange, and alter the visual forces
you find at your disposal. In this workshop, you'll look at a broad
range of possibilities taken from art history and contemporary art.
After taking part in shared challenges, you’ll be encouraged
to explore individual approaches. The premise of the workshop:
you, the artist, are a unique filter through which experiences of
the landscape are processed to produce a new visual reality that
is uniquely and expressively your own. Each
day ends in interactive group critique. Not media or technique specific.
Designed for outdoor locations.
|
|
5. PROCESSES OF ABSTRACTING FROM A
REFERENCE
The same focus, approach, and structure as the COMPOSITION WITH LANDSCAPE AS REFERENCE workshop above, only this time featuring still life and the figure as reference. Designed for indoor studio locations.
|
|
