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VITA
Institute for the Arts
Lead by nationally and
internationally known artists Don Eugene Seastrum, Boris Shoshensky, and Phil
Ward the VITA Institute for the Arts will present a series of workshops
in Florence and the Tuscan region of Italy in May, 2012. These workshops
offer self-motivated painters and photographers, who would like to use Italy as
their palette, a highly individualized program of study as part of a small, yet
dynamic learning community.
The VITA Institute for the Arts
workshops are designed to introduce
participants to the rich artistic culture and heritage of Italy, and how those
traditions can be emulated and applied to contemporary two dimensional
composition concepts providing possible directions for the future.
The workshops will encourage each
member to investigate her or his own vision of the world. A goal of the
workshops will be to teach techniques and principles that will build towards a
‘novum est’ (something new) unrestricted, but informed, by the past . The
workshops will cover a variety of media including, but not limited to,
watercolor, oil, acrylic, and photography. The workshops will also address the
nature and essence of works of art including the aspects of process, product
and response.
Committed to the idea of
authenticity of place, being there, the workshops offer an opportunity to
develop painting and photographic skills with purposeful inquiry and creative
expression in the home of the Renaissance, Michelangelo, da Vinci, and the
writers Dante and Machiavelli.
Developed against an Italian
backdrop, the workshops will examine compositional questions working from urban
Florentine and rural Tuscan landscapes, as well as the art of some of the
greatest Italian masters, works that can enlighten and inspire contemporary
artists. A majority of the work will be done on site in and around
Florence, as well as at the galleries, museums, churches, basilicas, and
cathedrals of Florence, Siena and San Gimignano. In addition studio time
at Santa Reparata International School of Art will be used for the preparation
of on-site assignments, demonstration of techniques, as well as individual and
group critiques.
One of the principle goals of the
VITA Institute for the Arts is to promote international understanding and
cooperation, through education and direct contact, between the peoples of the
United States and Italy. This understanding is facilitated by having the Institute’s
participants live, work and interact with the citizens of Florence.
Experiencing in a first hand fashion the populace, art and culture of this
historic city.
If you are looking for an
opportunity for artistic growth and personal development within the framework
of a shared experience, as well as the chance to engage with another culture
and different people both American and Italian please contact us at:
Info@VitaInstitute.org
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