Color for Painters
Instructor: Al Gury
Mondays, Oct. 7 – Dec. 9 (10 weeks)
1pm – 4pm
Tuition: $523
A comprehensive examination of the history, theories and practices of color in painting. The course presents an visual overview of color history in painting and how it has evolved to the present, a survey of the major theories and their practical applications in art making, a hands-on study of the most useful color charts, gradations and mixing strategies, studio exercises implementing the use of color aesthetics and practices in art making and visits to a museum to study and analyze color in masterworks. This course is open to all students and all content is applicable to a variety of media.
Downloadable syllabus with week-to-week outline and supply list available at the bottom of this page.
About the Artist
Al Gury is an artist, educator, and writer. He is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, America’s oldest and first Art School and Art Museum.
As a painter, Al explores the tension between representation and the formal possibilities of color, composition and content. Harmony and visual poetry are a focus of his interpretations of nature. Deeply committed to art education, he teaches many courses on painting, drawing and art history, as well as teaching art education methods to undergraduate and graduate students, and is the founder and instructor of a large, free, after school art education program at PAFA for underserved inner city high school students. National and international workshops are also a regular part of his engagement in art education. He is also a lecturer at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
As a writer, Al Gury has written three books for Penguin-Random House on art methods and art history, Alla Prima, Color for Painters and Foundations of Drawing. In addition, he has authored dozens of articles on art and art history for museums and art publications in the US and Europe such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Artists and Craftsman Magazine and numerous other venues. Al’s specialties include the traditions and use of color in painting, old master and contemporary painting methods, the history of drawing methods, and the traditions and practices in portrait and landscape painting.
Al Gury is a practicing painter, with regular one person exhibitions at the F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia, as well as galleries and museums in other states.
Very involved over the years in many community and social justice activities, including with homeless persons, inner city youth and the Mural Arts Project in Philadelphia, Al is a cat foster parent and advocate for animal rescue and nursing care via the Philadelphia Animal Welfare
Society.
Workshops Payment and Refund Policies
Due to limited class space, tuition is non-refundable. A credit for tuition may be issued up to
30 days before the first workshop class. No credit will be issued after that time. Credits are valid from one year of issue. Registration and enrollment is first-come, first-served with full tuition due at time of registration.
Continuing Education and Emerging Artists School-year Program Payment and Refund Policies
Due to limited class space, tuition must be paid in full at time of registration. A $100 fee is applied for cancellation up to the first class. No refunds will be issued after the first class.
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