Svenja Deininger

Pendant

19–31 August 2019

Media
Painting

Location
Hohensalzburg Fortress

Teaching language
English (teacher also speaks German)

What to bring
Favourite tools and materials for working in your preferred medium (drawing, painting), portfolio/data files or images of previous works, laptop if available. Generally, students should bring the materials they are familiar with in their practice.

Requirements
Welcome are all artistic methods of creating a painting and we will not draw distinctions between abstract and figurative approaches.

Maximum number of participants
20

Co-teacher
Manuel Gorkiewicz

Participation fee
€ 700.– (€ 540.–)

The focal point of this class will be reflection on one’s own painterly decisions. The artistic take in this class would be a process of thinking, acting, watching and reacting. On the way, we will talk about priming, the quality of different colours and paint. We will also discuss pivotal points in the development of a composition, and the question of when to stop working on a piece.

Thinking and reflecting on the practice of exhibiting will be an important element towards the last segment of the class, since we want to set up a little show of student works. Each participant will have the chance of presenting two paintings that would either support each other or have a relation in their polarity.

These two works can be abstract as well as figurative they could support or describe an atmosphere, a certain rhythm
they can be two words in one sentence
they can be like the beginning or end of a song
they can be even two visual descriptions of the same sound
they can show two different parts of one body
they can be one thought in the morning and one in the evening
they can include the wish to transport a certain smell
they can be complete or incomplete
they can be of similar scales or also of completely different ones
…
Another option would be that there will be only one work on view which is related to an already existing work from another artist you admire (or even not).