WITH LUCY MacGILLIS
Five meetings
Mondays
November 3
November 10
November 17
November 24
December 1
11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. eastern time
In this intensive ONLINE class, we will consider how Italian neorealist cinema was inspired by great art of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Novecento periods. Parallel to our in-depth studies of four great films. we will transcribe from paintings that directly relate to these films. In transcription, we will draw and paint from the masterpieces, investigating, not copying, in order to grasp what made them so important and timeless. We will focus on films directed by Visconti, De Sica, Pasolini, and Fellini and the corresponding paintings. Each week a film will be introduced, the context of Italian history in which it was created will be explained and we will sketch stills from each one. The participants' painting transcriptions and sketches will be reviewed in weekly group critiques, in order to address issues such as composition and the mixing of color.
Participants will receive a packet in the mail containing prints of the paintings we'll be transcribing from, as well as Fabriano oil painting and drawing paper to work on.