Summer Courses
Painting with Egg Tempera: Renaissance
Techniques for the Contemporary Artist
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 80
egg tempera
gold leaf and stamping
egg oil emulsions
chalk gesso grounds
Course Description: A Florentine
painting experience for both studio artists and art historians.
Many contemporary artists use methods that were developed during the
Renaissance because of the expressive potential of such techniques. Art
historians have an obvious interest in knowing specifically how the materials
were used to create the masterpieces of Florentine painting. This course
is intended for both groups and does not rely on previous painting experience,
though that is helpful.
The course provides extensive experience with a range of the traditional
materials and techniques that were used in the masterpieces produced
in Italy throughout the Renaissance. Hands-on demonstrations, lectures,
on-site field trips, and painting projects will inform both artists and
art historians. The focus will be on the exploration of the distinctive
luminosity and translucent characteristic of egg tempera and tempera
grassa (tempera with oil) painting.
The source material for student works will include, drawings, photographs
of Florentine masterpieces, books, art historical reproductions, and
images addressing contemporary ideas. In the studio students will learn
the processes for making: handmade gypsum gesso panels, preliminary drawings,
transfers, silverpoint drawings, grisaille underpaintings, layered color,
glazing, egg tempera paints mixed from dry pigments, tempera grassa and
a range of gold leaf techniques. Italy provides a unique resource for
acquiring and exploring these materials.
The world-class museums within walking distance of the Santa Reparata
studios provide an exceptional opportunity for group discussion and personal
artistic research from actual Renaissance paintings.
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Students in Renaissance Materials class 2008
Instructor:
Allison B. Cooke
Allison B. Cooke was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma
in 1954. She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Art Education
from the University
of Wisconsin - Madison in 1976 and Master of Fine Arts Degree in
Drawing and Painting from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
in 1988. Since 1985 Allison has taught drawing and painting studio
classes year-round at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Milwaukee
Institute
of Art and Design and in the Department of Visual Art housed in
the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Allison's passion for ancient and classical imagery in her artwork
has been cultivated by her travels to Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and Sweden. She has an extensive
show record spanning twenty-five years throughout the United
States. Recent
Paintings by Allison B.Cooke |
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