| Hosted by | St. Edmund's Sacred Art Institute |
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| Details | What are the criteria and qualities that define a painting worthy of the altar? This drawing and painting workshop will address exactly how painting contributes to the devotion and liturgical celebration at the altar. Our primary focus will be to design and paint an altarpiece in embryo during the course of the week. Our particular aim will be to develop a practical working methodology that will better enable the artist to organize the task of making a beautiful altarpiece. We will identify the visual events wherein each of the constituent elements of line, shape, color and volume work together to compose the union of form and content. To learn this manner of breaking out the differing drawing and design modalities will help you to invest your compositions with clarity, integrity and proportionality of structure. In this way the material nature of your art will begin to act as a sort of container that holds meaning while also revealing it as a luminous portal between the visible and the invisible world. There will be time for questions: What are the similarities and differences between the Icon and the Altarpiece? What is the proper relationship between artistic freedom and religious decorum? What are the key factors that enable a successful commission? What are the various historical types, the vocabulary, the doctrines and the concepts that aid an artist in their work to make a fine altarpiece? This week-long workshop begins with check-in at 4:30 PM on Sunday night. Dinner is served at 5:30 PM for students and instructors. Dinner is followed by a workshop introduction and conference which ends at 9:00 PM. Students are welcome to attend daily Mass at 9 AM. Hands-on instruction begins Monday morning after Mass. The entire workshop ends Friday at 1 PM. Instructor: James Langley is an contemporary classicist working at the intersection of the human figure with narrative, allegorical, and historical content in still life, landscape, portraiture, and figurative painting. His work, both sacred and ordinary, is imbued with a timeless but fresh perspective. He is available for commissions tailored to the customs, tastes, and usage of individual clients. Langley’s work includes architectural ornament for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a triptych for Opus Dei, and a monumental altarpiece for Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary. His work has exhibited in the United States, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Finland, and Portugal. Event webpage: https://endersisland.secure.retreat.guru/program/sacred-art-institute-james-langley/?lang=en Phone: (860) 536‑0565 Email: info@endersisland.org Facebook: @St. Edmund’s Sacred Art Institute — https://www.facebook.com/people/St-Edmunds-Sacred-Art-Institute/61555944520588/ Instagram: @sacredartinstitute — https://www.instagram.com/sacredartinstitute?igsh=eDVvbzBkdWRucHRk |
| Admission | $1010 or $1485 |
| Location | St. Edmund's Retreat Center |
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| More Info | info link |
| When | Daily, starting from Nov 17, 2024, until Nov 22, 2024 |