Intensive Drawing Program

Intermediate Program

Advanced Painting Program

Sculpture

First year students

Second year students

Third year students

Sculpture students drawings

Sculpture first year students sculptures

Sculpture second and third year students sculptures

Take a look to the images of this podcast in the links bellow:

3.08 Piazza della Signoria, Florence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_della_Signoria#/media/File:Piazza_Signoria_-_Firenze.jpg

3.12 Cellini. Perseus with the Head of the Medusa, c.1545-54.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_with_the_Head_of_Medusa#

/media/File:03_2015_Perseo_con_la_testa_di_Medusa-Benvenuto_Cellini-Piazza_della

_Signoria-Loggia_dei_Lanzi-volta_a_crociera-ordine_corinzio_(Firenze)_Photo_Paolo_Villa_FOTO9260.JPG

4.59 Michelangelo Buonarroti. David, c.1502.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)#/media/File:Firenze.David01.JPG

5.02 Baccio Bandinelli. Hercules and Cacus, c.1525-34

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_and_

Cacus#/media/File:Hercule_et_Cacus_Bandinelli_Florence_Signoria.jpg

5.15 Kate Kiss. Diagram illustrating the concept of active sight in the Piazza della Signoria, 2016.

http://www.faoablog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/008.jpeg

5.18 Cellini. Perseus with the Head of the Medusa (link to details), c.1545-54.

http://www.wga.hu/html_m/c/cellini/3/

5.32   Kate Kiss. Diagram illustrating the concept of active sight in the Piazza della Signoria, 2016.

http://www.faoablog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/008.jpeg

6.29 Cellini. Perseus with the Head of the Medusa (link to details), c.1545-54.

http://www.wga.hu/html_m/c/cellini/3/

11.27 Cellini. Perseus with the Head of the Medusa (link to details), c.1545-54.

http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer_m/z.html

12.06   Kate Kiss. Diagram illustrating the concept of active sight in the Piazza della Signoria, 2016.

http://www.faoablog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/008.jpeg

12.58 The Swamp Gustav Klimt

https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustav-klimt/the-swamp-1900

18.58 George Frederick Watts – Edward Burnes-Jones

http://www.georgefredericwatts.org/Portrait-of-Edward-Burne-Jones-(1833-98),-1870.html

GF Watts – Endymion https://www.wikiart.org/en/george-frederick-watts/endymion

24.35 GF Watts – Mary Magdalen – https://it.pinterest.com/pin/507006870526643590/

25. 39 GF Watts – Repentant Eve – https://it.pinterest.com/pin/356347389239998590/

26.37 Giorgione – Portrait of a Man https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giorgione,_Portrait_of_a_Man.jpg

28.14 Giorgione – Judith with the head of Holofernes http://www.artbible.info/art/large/829.html

Giorgione – Judith with the Head of Holofernes (detail) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giorgione_-_Judith_2.jpg

29.49 Titian – Flaying of Marsyas https://www.wikiart.org/en/titian/the-flaying-of-marsyas-1576

38.20 Pietà (Giovanni Bellini Brera)

Buy Terence Ward’s book mention on this podcast on the following link:

Take a look to the images of this podcast in the links bellow:

2.37  The Calling of St Matthew (Caravaggio)

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocazione_di_san_Matteo

8.24 The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martyrdom_of_Saint_Matthew_(Caravaggio)

10.32 The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspiration_of_Saint_Matthew

10.40 Saint Matthew and the Angel (Caravaggio)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Matthew_and_the_Angel

11.15 Crucifixion of St. Peter (Caravaggio)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_of_St._Peter_(Caravaggio)

13.07 Assunzione della Vergine (Annibale Carracci)

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assunzione_della_Vergine_(Annibale_Carracci)

image click to view the image

13.55 Conversione di san Paolo (Caravaggio)

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversione_di_san_Paolo_(Caravaggio)

14.48 Madonna di Loreto (Caravaggio)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_di_Loreto_(Caravaggio)

16.34 Miraculous catch of fish. (Raphael)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_catch_of_fish

18.14 David with the Head of Goliath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_with_the_Head_of_Goliath

19.22 Lucretia (Rembrandt, 1666)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_(Rembrandt,_1666)

21.14 The Seven Works of Mercy (Caravaggio)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Works_of_Mercy_(Caravaggio)

Casine

Bandiera

Alessandro Dupre cast painting

Anastasia Serdyakova

Angelika Burkle

Anna Evans cast drawing

Carlos Palazio cast painting

Chanel Cha cast painting

Chanel Cha long pose painting

Claire Livingston cast drawing

Denise Melvin

Erica Arcudi cast painting

Erica Arcudi long pose male

Erica Arcudi portrait study

Gaia Grazioli

Ilana Ellis Portrait drawing

Irenland Wisdom

Katrina Pura cast drawing

Katrina Pura long pose

Kristine Onsrud long pose painting

Lysandra Lestini cast drawing

Lysandra Lestini long pose

Marty Welsh cast painting

Ola Alaa El-din Aly cast painting

Ola Alaa El-din Aly

Rishabh Sud cast drawing

Sahra Becherer cast drawing

Sarah Hardy cast dawing Portrait

Sarah Hardy cast dawing

Sinisa Matic cast painting

Lana Ellis long pose

Sarah Hardy cast drawing

Porta Romana

Palazzo Brucciato Drawings

Palazzo Brucciato Sculptures

Casine

Bandiera

Porta Romana

Palazzo Brucciato Drawings

Palazzo Brucciato Sculptures

Casine

Bandiera

Porta Romana

Palazzo Brucciato Drawings

Palazzo Brucciato Sculptures

INTENSIVE DRAWING PROGRAM. STUDIO CASINE

Director: Simona Dolci
Principal Instructors: Maureen Hyde, Simone Moritz, Janne Jaskelaine

Alberte Skronski long pose female

Alberte Skronski long pose

Beatris Petrovska long pose

Cahse Heinke long pose

Carlos Palacio long pose

Diana Solis long pose

Emily Macduff long pose

Ireland Wisdom long pose-2

Ireland Wisdom long pose

Josh Green long pose

Kristine Onsrud long pose

Kristine Onsrud long pose

Logan Turner long pose

Margaret Welsh long pose

Sinisa Matic long pose

Emily Macduff watercolor

Kristine Onsrud charcoal portrait-2

Kristine Onsrud charcoal portrait

Anastasia Serdakova head studies-2aa

Anastasia Serdakova head studies

Beatris Petrovska pencil drawing

Beatris Petrovska sanguine study-2

Beatris Petrovska sanguine study-3

Beatris Petrovska sanguine study-4

Beatris Petrovska sanguine study

Cahse Heinke hand studies-2

Cahse Heinke hand studies

Clarie Livingston sketches-2

Clarie Livingston sketches-3

Clarie Livingston sketches

Emily Macduff charcoal study-2

Emily Macduff charcoal study-3

Emily Macduff charcoal study

Erica Arcudi Anatomy study

Erica Arcudi sanguine study

Gaia Grazioli pencil drawing study

Gaia Grazioli pencil drawing

Josh Green study-2

Josh Green study

Ola Alaa El-Din Aly pencil drawing-2

Ola Alaa El-Din Aly pencil drawing

Sinisa Matic pendil drawing

INTERMEDIATE PROGRAM. STUDIO BANDIERA

Director: Daniela Astone
Principal Instructors: Tanvi Pathare, Maureen Hyde

Daniel Zuberi cast with white chalk

Daniel Zuberi portrait

Devin Nelson cast with white chalk

Devin Nelson long pose

Elena Gual Baquera portrait with white chalk

Eliza Moser cast with white chalk

Emina Adrovic cast with white chalk

Emina Adrovic long pose

Hannah Wynkoop portrait

Iona Hutley portrait with white chalk

Jessica Galvin cast with white chalk

Kate Dunn cast with white chalk

Kate Dunn long pose

Matthew McDonald cast painting

Matthew McDonald drawing with white chalk

Moses Hamborg cast with white chalk

Moses Hamborg cast

Moses Hamborg long pose

Moses Hamborg portrait

Natasha Kuchko cast painting

Natasha Kuchko long pose painting

Natasha Kuchko sketch

Olga Abramova cast with white chalk

Olga Abramova lonfpose painting

Railey Cooley portrait with white chalk

Stella Lamikhov cast painting

ADVANCED PAINTING PROGRAM. STUDIO PORTA ROMANA

Director:  Ramiro Sanchez
Principal Instructors: Daniel Graves, Shtanko Vitaliy, Thomas Richards

Anton Dymtchenko still life painting

Gerard Castellvi Gasco portrait painting

Jose Manuel Roel still life painting

Karla Miranda still life – Spring ritual

Lee Craigmile still life painting

Megan Euell still life painting -Francis the cordwainer

Niko Lauhkonen portrait painting

Niko Lauhkonen still life painting

Rachel Personett long pose painting

Rachel Personett still life

Robert Kelly Long pose painting -Male nude

Sara Chong long pose painting-2

Sara Chong long pose painting

Sara Chong portrait painting

Sara Chong still life painting

Toby Neve – Portrait of Falco

SCULPTURE PROGRAM. STUDIO PALAZZO BRUCIATO

Director:  Robert Bodem
Principal Instructors: Mitch Shea, Kresten Smedemark, Sanne van Tongeren

DRAWING IN SCULPTURE. STUDIO PALAZZO BRUCIATO

Director:  Simone Moritz
Principal Instructors: Mitch Shea, Amanda Granberg, Kresten Smedemark

Silvia Juez Linares long pose

Alexandra Sevostianova Portrait study on paper

Amanda Granberg long pose

Chapman John Hamborg long pose

Melissa Kennedy long pose-2

Melissa Kennedy long pose

Mathias Baber long pose

John Kim long pose – Andrea

Chapman John Hamborg study

Mathias Baber study- pencil and chalk on tone paper

Chapman John Hamborg study-3

Chapman John Hamborg study

Amanda Granberg study

Amanda Granberg self portrait

Amanda Granberg pencil drawing

INTENSIVE DRAWING PROGRAM. STUDIO CASINE

Director: Simona Dolci
Principal Instructors: Maureen Hyde, Simone Moritz, Janne Jaskelaine

Charlie Goering, cast drawing

Rebecca St. Cegger, long pose

Denise Melvin, long pose

Nicholas Chaundy, long pose

Neha Neji, long pose

Neha Neji, cast drawing

Rebecca St. Cegger, long pose

Niklas Elgmo, long pose

Jonathan Frisby, long pose

Denise Melvin, long pose

Charlie Goering, long pose

Charlie Goering, long pose female

INTERMEDIATE PROGRAM. STUDIO BANDIERA

Director: Daniela Astone
Principal Instructors: Tanvi Pathare, Maureen Hyde

Lee Craigmile, drawing of Sofia

Natasha Kuchko, Cast drawing in white chalk

Dylan Gillespie, cast painting

Stella Lamikhov,cast painting

Sheridan Elphick, Fauno with white chalk

Sheridan  Elphick, cast painting

Lee Craigmaile, Female nude cast painting

ADVANCED PAINTING PROGRAM. STUDIO PORTA ROMANA

Director:  Ramiro Sanchez
Principal Instructors: Daniel Graves, Shtanko Vitaliy, Thomas Richards

Catherine Eldridge

Toby Neve, still life

Sofía Zuluaga Botero. Hypertrichose palmaire du médecin

Sara Chong, portrait

Sara Chong, long pose

Nicholas Chaundy

Mitch Price, long pose

Megan Euell, preparatory drawing

Megan Euell

Megan Euell, still life

Joshua Granberg, self portrait

Joshua Granberg, long pose

Joshua Granberg, final project

Baptiste Hebuterne-Mariotte. Final project

SCULPTURE PROGRAM. STUDIO PALAZZO BRUCIATO

Director:  Robert Bodem
Principal Instructors: Mitch Shea, Kresten Smedemark, Sanne van Tongeren

DRAWING IN SCULPTURE. STUDIO PALAZZO BRUCIATO

Director:  Simone Moritz
Principal Instructors: Mitch Shea, Amanda Granberg, Kresten Smedemark

Eudald De Juana, Female long pose

Silvia Juez Linares, long pose

Shani Shemesh, long pose

Nacy Peng

Melissa Kennedy, 2nd year

Maudie Brady, Female long pose

Maudie Brady, 2nd year

Mathias Bader, Second year Sculpture

Eudald De Juana, Male long pose

SKETCHES

First year students

Sculpture Drawing Program

“Il silenzio della realtà. La realtà del silenzio”
December 24 to March 8, 2015
Palazzo Chiericati
Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 37/39 – Vicenza

The exhibition in Vicenza will occupy five rooms on the ground floor of Chiericati Palace, seat of the Civic Museum, and will include paintings and sculptures by the artist. The show will start outside the city walls, with two monumental bronze sculptures, “Carmen Asleep” and “Carmen Awake,” which will be placed at the end of Corso Palladi, as if to announce the exhibition’s theme of night and waking.

for more information about the exhibition click on the following link: http://www.museicivicivicenza.it/it/mcp/notizie.php/109784

TRANSPORTATION:

You can get there by train in 2 hours from Florence. Prices by train starting from 28 euros round trip.  You can find more information in www.trenitalia.com or here https://www.lefrecce.it/B2CWeb/search.do?parameter=searchOutputViewer&cFID=dSL8bX0PRawx

OPENING HOURS:

Pinacoteca di Palazzo Chiericati 

Piazza Matteotti 37/39

ORARIO INVERNALE

Uffici:

Levà degli Angeli, 11
tel +39 0444/222811 – fax +39 0444/222155
e-mail: museocivico@comune.vicenza.it

Congratulation to the students for your great work. Have a great summer!

FIRST YEAR STUDENTS. CASINE

Cesare Giuffredi pencil drawing study 1

Cesare Giuffredi pencil drawing study 2

Daniel Zuberi. Cast drawing

Devin Nelson. Long pose drawing

Devin Nelson. Pencil study 1

Devin Nelson. Pencil study 2

Devin Nelson. Pencil study 3

Deyang Li. Cast drawing

Diana Nechifor. Cast drawing

Elena Gual Baquera. Cast drawing

Elena Gual Baquera. Long pose

Elena Gual Baquera. Pencil drawing study 1

Elena Gual Baquera. Pencil drawing study 2

Felipe Riesco Diaz. Cast drawing

Felipe Riesco Diaz. Long pose male

Felipe Riesco Diaz. Long pose female

Fiona Corsini. Cast drawing

Fiona Corsini. Long pose female

Fiona Corsini. Pencil drawing study

Iona Hutley. Cast drawing

Iona Hutley. Long pose female

Jessica Galvin. Long pose female

Kate Dunn. Cast drawing

Kate Dunn. Long pose female

Kate Dunn. Pencil drawing study 1

Kate Dunn. Pencil drawing study

Railey Cooley. Long pose female

Santiago Herrera. Long pose female

SECOND YEAR STUDENTS. BANDIERA

Anton Dymtchenkov. Cast drawing in tone paper

Anton Dymtchenkov. Cast painting

Catherine Eldrige. Still life painting

David Masson San Gabriel. Long pose painting 2

David Masson San Gabriel. Portrait

Dylan Gillespie. Cast on tone paper

Emma Ferrer. Cast painting

Emmalyn Tringali. Cast drawing in toned paper

Dylan Gillespie. Transfer drawing

Gerard Castellvi. Cast painting

Megan Euell. Cast painting

Megan Euell. Long pose

Megan Euell. Transfer drawing

Rachel Personett. Portrait drawing

Robert Kelly. Cast painting

Robert Kelly. Long pose

Sara Chong. Cast painting

Sara Chong. Long pose

Toby Neve. Cast painting

Toby Neve. Long pose

THIRD YEARD STUDENTS. PORTA ROMANA

Baptiste Hebuterne Mariotte. Portrait

Jamie Coreth. Portrait

Joe Bottomly. Still life

Johan O. Cimmeria. Final project

Kevin Boylan. Charcoal drawing

Lynn Guo. Final project

Lynn Guo. Long pose

Maximiliano Vatovac. Still life painting

Mitch Price. Still life

Nicolas Chen. Final Project

Raffaella Freyre. Still life

Xavier Denia Valls. Final project

SCULPTURE PROGRAM. PALAZZO BRUCIATO

Amanda Granberg. Pencil and white chalk on toned paper

Amanda Granberg. Pencil and white chalk on toned paper

Maudie Brady. Long pose. 1st year studen

Shani Shemesh. Long pose. 1st year student

Melissa Kennedy. Cast drawing. 1st year student

Melissa Kennedy. Long pose. 1st year student

Shani Shemesh. Long pose. 1st year student

4TH YEAR PRICE PROGRAM

Sarah-Margaret Gibson. Baco

Tatyana Kulida

Vladimir Jovicevic

A Note From B. Eric Rhoads, 
Publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur and PleinAir

I have to admit, I’m jealous. I know I’m not supposed to be, yet after almost two decades of painting, I simply cannot paint like many of today’s young masters. Further, I cannot paint like the Old Masters I so dearly love. I have been searching, and my endless journey still has me struggling to produce paintings with that Old Masters quality, yet in my own contemporary voice. Am I making progress? Maybe, but I cannot figure out how they get the form, the skin tones, the light and shadow, and how their paintings seem to leap off the canvas.

I think, however, my journey may have led me to a solution at last. It started with a trip to a distant land.

I was a painter before I ever launched PleinAir magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur, but I am a business owner first, and the time it takes to run a business has meant my painting has had to be relegated to nights and weekends. I know that years of brush time and momentum as a painter is necessary for me to improve. I’ve studied with many painters and taken many workshops, but I still struggle. I hate to think I won’t master it until I retire (if I ever do).

I know many painters who feel the same way. Some are working and trying to get better, others are working full-time on painting but still have not found the solution to mastering this Old Masters look.

Since I started painting and producing these magazines, I’ve been on a lifetime quest to better my own painting and that of others. It starts with showcasing the best of the best in the magazines, so we can all learn what quality really is. It has continued with events like the Plein Air Convention, and with the production of DVDs. I had no idea I’d someday be in the art education business, but I take that role very seriously. And unlike so many big corporations that own art magazines and don’t really live art, I live it every day. I do it because of my passion, my concern for others who want to grow as painters or collectors.

For decades now I’ve heard about the Florence Academy in Italy and the great work they have been doing to train young artists. They were doing it when few others were and are very much responsible for the contemporary realism movement today. That school was started by master artist Daniel Graves, who has found mentors in the lineage of great painters of the past. I met Daniel for the first time about eight years ago, when Peter Trippi and I had dinner with Daniel Graves and Jacob Collins. We have been friends ever since.

Since then Daniel has told me to come and study at the Florence Academy. He said a visit would open my eyes. So two years ago, on our Italian Art Cruise, our group visited. He was right. Since that moment I’ve craved a chance to attend the Florence Academy, either for a summer program or for a few years. But reality sinks in. I have a life, a family, a business, and no time to spend studying. So what would be the next best thing? Bring the academy to me.

I contacted Daniel and suggested I bring a video crew to Florence, to capture the essence of the academy and of the Florence art scene and have him teach the techniques that have been passed down to him from the great masters. He agreed, so last fall I went to Florence for a week, and we shot lots and lots of video.

Daniel Graves took us through all the steps of his process, starting with prepping the canvas and the colors. He gets such pure color by grinding his own, so I got that on video. He is also known for his process for cleaning oils so his paintings don’t yellow. I got that on video. We then went through the creation of sight-size drawing, sketching, blocking in, the process of creating form, and then on to the finishing elements of the portrait.

I then interviewed Daniel, and we had some very special moments (I think we both teared up at one point). He truly is a special guy with a passion for art. And as it happens, there was a 25th-anniversary exhibition of Pietro Anagoni’s work when I was in Florence. A magical moment happened when Daniel Graves, John Michael Angel, and Charles Cecil were all together for the first time since they started out together as young students more than 25 years ago. We caught that meeting on video. I also got a chance to meet Mrs. Anagoni, and I met a women who modeled for one of the artist’s portraits at age 19. She is now in her late 70s, and it was beautiful to see this woman standing next to her portrait. We caught that on video. It was magical.

This video is the first in our Florence Academy Series, and we expect it to be a giant seller because most of us desire time at the Florence Academy with Daniel Graves, but only a few ever get that privilege. This video is on DVD, and you can watch it over and again (as I have) in your own home. I’m already seeing my painting change because of it.

PRE-RELEASE SPECIAL DISCOUNT OFFER

The video will be released in just a few weeks. We are putting the final editing touches on it this week and next and then we’ll send it out for duplication. You can get it at a special pre-release price if you’re willing to wait three or maybe four weeks (it might be sooner).

This two-DVD set will normally sell for $127. But we’re offering it to you for $107. It’s a chance to save $20 on something you’ll most likely want to buy anyway.

I’m really proud to be able to produce video of this quality for the art world. My goal was to make videos as beautiful as the art itself. I think we’ve come very close, and this DVD is our best yet. I hope you’ll consider it, but there is a deadline to get the pre-release price.

If you order within the next 24 hours, we will throw in the shipping at no charge, to anywhere in the world. That offer expires on Wednesday, May 14 at midnight Pacific Time.

The pre-release discount expires on Tuesday, May 27. Just two weeks from today.

To order call 561-655-8778 or visit streamlineartvideo.com/graves

Eric Rhoads

PS: I suspect this DVD will go into two or three printings. It’s very likely we could sell out the first printing in the next 24 hours — it will be that huge. If you get your order in within 24 hours, you get free shipping and areguaranteed to get the first release of the first printing. You can save $20 on this $127 DVD, for a price of $107. Price expires on Tuesday, May 27. Order now.

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Daniel Graves: Old World Portraiture™

Old World Portraiture 
with Daniel Graves™

Florence Academy Series

Available now on a special PRE-RELEASE discount price, which expires on May 27, 2014

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We had the opportunity to hear a good lecture with Jason Louis Arkles.

Jason was born in Washington, DC, one of five children of a woodworker and a quilter. In 1996, he traveled to Florence, Italy.

In June of 2000, the National Sculpture Society awarded him the George Gach Prize, for his entry in the National Sculpture Competition, and the Gloria Medal for his ‘meritorious body of work’. Since then Jason has taken part in national and regional exhibitions too numerous to list, from New York to Washington, DC to Chapel Hill.

Even with his essentially 19th century training, Jason has no desire to ‘turn back the clock’ and ignore or discredit abstraction and mannerism in art of the past century. He firmly believes that the art of the twenty-first century will be a continuation of the theoretical and psychological progress of Modern art, synthesized with a much-needed return to Nature as the source of stimulus and motive in creative work.

To know more about Jason´s work click here

Getting things ready!

Jason Arkles, Daniel Graves and Jamie Coreth

Rob Bodem, Jason Arkles and Daniel Graves

See you again in June 6th Jason! Looking forward to hear next lecture

THE FLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART SUMMER SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST

Your email must include:

– Full Name, Date of Birth, Mailing address, Phone number (with country codes)

– 3 low resolution jpeg images (maximum 72 dpi) of your recent drawings, paintings, or sculptures. Include your name and a title in the JPG file title.

– Maximum 250 words about yourself.

Deadline. May 23, 2014, at midnight. Our 10 Finalists will be announced on our Facebook page daily from May 28th and the winner will be announced June 5, 2014, on The Florence Academy of Art Facebook and Twitter pages.

Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for competition updates.

For a complete description of our summer workshops in Florence, go to Summer Florence on our Homepage or click here.

If you want to read the complete information go to our website here

Good Luck!

Congratulations to students and teachers!

As we mentioned before on our Facebook page, Grzegorz Gwiazda will be with FAA students and FAA alumni, this coming May 10th. Grzegorz Gwiazda was born in 1984 in Lidzbark Warmiński. He studied at Poznań and Warsaw Schools of Fine Arts, and then at the Accademia di Belle Arte di Brera in Milan, Italy, having been granted a scholarship. In 2009 he graduated with honours from Academy of Art in Warsaw (ASP), where he had studied sculpture under Professor Adam Myjak. In January 2014 he was awarded his doctorate. Since 2009 he has been working as Assistant to Professor Maciej Zychowicz in the Graphics and Sculpture Department at the Institute of Art Education at the School of Special Education (IEA ASP) in Warsaw…(read more about here)

Here is some of his work

On May 23, 24 and 25 we will  host Max Ginsburg,  an American Painter born in Paris, France, in 1931. He will present his work from 1956-2014 and speak about the development of his recent large multifigure paintings, from concept through finish. Then follow with a demo-workshop on May 24 & 25.

Max Ginsburg lives in New York. He explores human life situation related with war, social depressions, while explores also other fields related with fiction, romance and youthful life. As New Yorker recognizes a profound connection with the diversity of this city as source of inspiration. At the same time he also looks for inspiration in classical artists such as Caravaggio, Goya, Kollwitz and Picasso among others. 

FAA students and alumni cannot wait for Max’s lecture and demo! (More info about Max here)

It seems we are going to have a busy May at the FAA…!

if you are around New York don’t miss his exhibition in ArtRage Gallery. Details in the flier bellow

Great afternoon with friends and students at Fratelli Bandiera, where we had the opportunity to see their works.

Well done! Here some pics of the afternoon

Daniel Graves with Tom Richards

Last moments before opening

Last retouches

Getting food ready

David Masson

Benjamin Arnold

David Masson’s drawing

Francis Waplinger,Stella Lamikhov, Megan Euell, Maureen Hyde

Catherine Eldridge and Erin McCarthy

Chapman Hamborg,Sarah-Margaret Gibson and Lee Craigmile

Daniella and Gerard

Some visitor from England

The Catalans

David Masson and Per Elof

Vanessa Paladino, Rony Cadavid, Anna Rosa Paladino

Click here for more details on

One-week Figure, Portrait, Still Life and Landscape Workshops
and our three new courses

Six-week Intensive Course: Drawing, Painting and Art History

Self Portrait Painting

Limited Palette Landscape Painting

Click here for more details

A big congratulations to our students: Mitch Shea, Tatyana Kulida Shelley, Sarah Margaret Gibson, Rachel Parsonett, Joshua Granberg and Thor Larsen

Sarah Margaret Gibson

Tatyana Kulida Shelley

Rachel Personett

Joshua Granberg

Mitch Shea

Thor Larsen

CASINE STUDIO

Rachel Personett, Best Begining Cast

Gerard Castellvi Gasco,Best Begining Figure Drawing

Niko Lauhkonen, Honorable Mention Beginning Figure Drawing

BANDIERA STUDIO

Anne Koldso Best Cast

Jennifer Keltos, Best Figure Drawing

Lynn Guo, Figure Painting

PORTA ROMANA STUDIO

Vladimir Jovicevic, Best Painting

Ione Hunter Gordon, Best Figure Painting

Jordi Díaz Alamá, Honorable Mention Painting

ECORCHE CLASS

Anna Maria Fusari, Best Ecorche

ANATOMY CLASS

Stella Lamikhov wins the award for best Anatomy student 2012-13

SCULPTURE STUDIOS

Shi Yu Liu, Best Drawing in Sculpture

Brian Sheridan,Honorable Mention Drawing in Sculpture

Mitch Shea, Best Sculpture

The graduating class of 2013, faculty and administration (left to right) first row: Max Vatovac, Tanvi Pathare, Ramiro Sanchez, Alex Morris, Simone Moritz, October Butler, Richard Greathouse; second row: Suzy Fiddy, Rafael Belfort, Rosemary Galli, Johanna Schwaiger, Laura Thompson, Anna-Brith Arnsten, Tatyana Kulida, Daniela Astone, Raffaella Freyre, Anna Maria Fusari, Sarah Margaret Gibson, Luigi Lanotte, Simona Dolci, Leonardo d’Este; third row: Jordi Diaz Alamà, Hege Haugen, Derrick Maddox, Steve Bettman, Frank Rekrut, Steffen Schubert, Sarah Pearn, Susan Tintori, Janne Jaaskelainen, Marc Vinciguerra, Ulrich Suberg; fourth row: Joakim Ericsson, Charles Weed, Daniel Graves, Maureen Hyde; fifth row: Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund, Jordan Sokol, Eran Webber, Robert Bodem, Vladimir Jovicevic

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During its 22-year history, The Florence Academy of Art, led by Daniel Graves, has served its mission to train students to become highly skilled realist painters and sculptors. Success has been so far measured by the quality of the artwork produced by its students and graduates. Today, the academy accepts with pride its recognition by NASAD. It looks forward to continuing to provide students with fundamental skills to produce great art with enhanced academic status.

Accreditation allows students to earn university credits while obtaining the skills offered by the Florence Academy. Executive Director, Susan Tintori, says, “This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the classical curriculum of the atelier enters the mainstream. It will no doubt increase awareness among art students looking for sound techniques and training.” The diploma issued by The Florence Academy of Art upon completion of the three year course in Painting or Sculpture is a university level Certificate. A certificate may be used by an undergraduate as credit towards a terminal degree, or by a graduate as added proof of expertise.

Writes Florence Academy supporter, Sean Mcardle, “We live in a pivotal century, when a part of Western history, culture and techniques was almost lost. I am ecstatic the National Association of Schools of Art and Design recognized the FAA. It is truly epic, and it is thanks to your values and commitment!”

National Association of Schools of Art and Design, founded in 1944, is an organization of 322 schools, colleges, and universities that establishes national standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and non-degree programs credentials.

THE POWER OF WISDOM AND BEAUTY
Oil on linen
60×80 cm
2013

Artist, Steven Assael, will conduct a two-day workshop – demo for Florence Academy students June 1 & 2, 2013 – Via Ugo Foscolo, 6. Porta Romana studio- 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Your email must include:

– Full Name, Date of Birth, Mailing address, Phone number (with country codes)

– 3 low resolution jpeg images (maximum 72 dpi) of your recent drawings, paintings, or sculptures. Include your name and a title in the JPG file title.

– Maximum 250 words about yourself.

Deadline. May 1, 2013. Our 10 Finalists will be announced on our Facebook page daily fromMay 6th and the winner will be announced May 17, 2013, on The Florence Academy of ArtFacebook and Twitter pages.

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For a complete description of our summer workshops in Florence, go to Summer Florence on our Homepage or click here.