Studio Escalier - 2012 Autumn at the Louvre

Studio Escalier - 2012 Autumn at the Louvre - 6-week Drawing Program

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Louvre and Class Drawings
Winter 2010

N. Michelle Tully

Class Demonstrations
Winter 2009 - 2010

T. Stotz

2012 Autumn at the Louvre / 6-week Drawing Program

        "Les musées sont là pour apprendre l'histoire de l'art et quelque chose en plus; car, s'ils suscitent, chez les faibles,
des désirs d'imitation, ils donnent, aux forts, des moyens d'émancipation." - Edgar Degas

        "The museums are there to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, as they spark in the weak
a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation."
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LOCATION: Our new Autumn at the Louvre - 6-week Drawing Program will hold morning drawing sessions in our
                    Paris Program Studio in Montmartre, as well as offer weekly critique of ongoing student drawings
                    at the Musee du Louvre.

                    Please see our Facilities page for complete details on the Paris Program Studio.

CLASS DATES: Sunday, October 21, 2012 - Friday, November 30, 2012    (One 6-week term)

CLASS SCHEDULE: Figure sessions with live model 16.5 hrs/week (M,Th,Fr mornings, and all day Tuesday)

                               One-on-one critique of student drawings at the Louvre
                               (One individual Louvre critique per student, per week, with alternating instructors.)

CLASS SIZE:     10 maximum + instructors

WHO is ELIGIBLE? Anyone may apply - There are no academic or other pre-requisites.

                               See the application PDF for current portfolio requirements (to be published online shortly).

                               All students must enroll full-time for this 6-week course, held in our
                                Paris Program Studio in Montmartre, and the Musee du Louvre.

TUITION PRICE: 1800 euros for one 6-week term
                          Figure sessions 16.5 hours per week; one individual Louvre critique per week, alternating instructors

                         Six weeks of housing in Paris not included.
                          Students required to find and contract their own housing in Paris.

WHEN to APPLY: The priority application deadline for this course is June 1.

                          Click HOW to APPLY to learn more, and to download the application PDF.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: "2012 Autumn at the Louvre"

Our Autumn at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive program is a new Studio Escalier course and exclusive educational opportunity for arts professionals, emerging artists and art students, offered in co-operation with the Musee du Louvre, Paris.

It offers a unique 6-week curriculum of daily drawing in our Paris Program Studio in Montmartre, with additional museum lectures and weekly critique of ongoing student drawings executed on-site at the Louvre.

Figure studio will be in-session for 6 weeks, Monday - Friday, 16.5 hrs weekly (3 mornings per week, and all day Tuesday)

The course will offer lecture-demonstrations on Tuesday mornings, and critique will be given in the studio 3-4 sessions per week.

Figure poses will vary in length between 10 minutes and one week (16+ hrs.), depending on the principles being discussed and taught.

The course will offer a structured curriculum of daily figure drawing from life every morning, with additional assigned drawing from masterpieces of sculpture in the Louvre, to be pursued in the afternoons, outside of class.

One-on-one critiques of student work will be given weekly at the Musee du Louvre, with one of the two instructors. One-on-one critiques at the museum will be scheduled in advance, 45 minutes maximum per individual, once a week.

The sculpture halls and painting galleries of the Louvre are also open Wednesday and Friday evenings until 9:45pm, for independent drawing and occasional lectures by faculty - dates and times TBA.

Louvre lectures will place special emphasis on 18th c French sculpture, and paintings of the 16th - 17th c. Italian, French and Flemish schools, especially as they relate to the evolution of drawing in the French School and School of Paris, 17th - 20th c.

With current Studio Escalier ID, all enrolled Paris Intensive students may apply for a yearly student or professional membership (costs 25 - 55 euros), to enter and draw in the Louvre daily, at no further cost.

FACULTY

The Autumn at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive 2012 will be team-taught by the artists Timothy Stotz and Nicole Michelle Tully.

Full-time faculty will occasionally work alongside students as fellow artists, producing both drawings and paintings.

See our FACULTY page for instructor biographies and additional portfolio images.

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