News Jan 2012, Workshop: Through the Canvas ♦ Flores i Prats

the students choose painting and colleague to work with

mounting the studio at the 2nd floor of the royal academy arch school

studio of the given painting by pairs – here simon and hafstein

finishing the drawing right before the intermediate review

nielsine and julie presenting their work at intermediate crit

emre and emil showing their work to invited professor niels groenbaek

julie reuther and nielsine christiensen show their exercise to professor karsten gori

discussing models with helena and sophie

first group presenting the final crit – cathrine anita and else

second group of final crit – riekke arnfred and anders larsen

third group of final crit – theo and victor

general comments to the three first exercises together

astrid blichfeldt and lotte mikkelsen presenting

emre and emil showing their variations on models

the red bar full of guest professors and students for final review

elle and thea listening to the critics to their work

professor niels groenbaek comments julie and nielsines exercise

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News Jan 2012, Workshop: Through the Canvas

The intention of this workshop is to revisit the history of domesticity, and more specifically the architectonical proposal stated by Dutch paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Students work with Dutch interiors painted by Pieter de Hooch and Emanual de Witte.

The exercise proposes to observe and draw the spatial proposal depicted in these paintings, and from these first observations draw a house that contain the spatial qualities that can be found in these paintings. This house should become an extension of the picture itself, imagining a continuity of the depicted scene. Students reach these houses through analysing the paintings and the kind of life these were trying to represent, the use of the spaces, their dimension, their hierarchies, the light… The picture is the starting place, students design from the information found there, discovering and expanding on the painters’ ideas through hand drawing and model making.