Description
The course will be conducted over 10 weeks in three hour sessions and will, amongst other things, look at artists who invented the dazzle technique. Vorticism was an art movement that broke with the past and expressed the dynamism of the machine age, exploring pattern and geometry as a means to make paintings.
“Starting with drawings of our architectural surroundings, we will develop optical effects by putting together patterns that trigger a confusion in the picture plane. High visual intensity pattern can be used as a device, in this course we will learn how to use it to our own sensibility, which may find subtler overt applications. As a device, pattern, repetition, and decoration can be found in a broad range of painters. From the haunting pure abstraction of Tomma Abts to Gustav Klimt, who uses areas of intensity with figurative paintings as a way of creating density in his work”
Vicky Wright
RETURNING STUDENTS: Whereas we may look again at artists like Abts and Klimt we also look at a new set of artists during this new session.
