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Our feature article in the
SPRING 2006 ISSUE
DRAWING Quarterly magazine:
"A Flowering Staircase:
500 years of Masters and Apprentices"
by Timothy STOTZ
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Read our article in
DRAWING Quarterly (Winter 2005)
an American Artist Publication:
"Studio Escalier:
A Vision of Contemporary
Classical Instruction"
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"S'approprier le talent des Anciens et le retrouver sur la Nature." - le Comte de Caylus (1763)
("To appropriate for oneself the talent of the Ancients and find it again in Nature.")
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Recommended Reading
Drawing with an Open Mind
by Ted Seth Jacobs
Light for the Artist
by Ted Seth Jacobs
The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing
by Anthony Ryder
Charles Pfahl - Artist at Work
by Charles Pfahl and Joe Singer
The Eye of the Painter and the Elements of Beauty
by Andrew Loomis
Upcoming Events Near Argenton-Chateau (79) (see the
TRAVEL page for the easiest itineraries)
Bressuire /
Bocapole Center
Mauleon
Maulevrier
Cholet
Angers
Thouars
Saumur
Tours
Nantes
Museum Visits
Our Paris drawing programs (Winter and Spring only) always take time to visit and interact with Paris museums, and studio coursework often
focuses on the subject matter of current exhibitions.
During each 3-Month Intensive Course (Summer and Autumn only) in Argenton-Chateau (79),
we encourage the organization of at least one extra-curricular trip to a fine art museum nearby, or in Paris.
There are a variety of regional museums with excellent collections near Argenton-Chateau,
for single day-trips or for our "studio weekends" (Friday/Saturday).
Group reservations of 10 or more can benefit from a 30% discount on train fares to Paris from Angers
(as little as 60 euros roundtrip, per person).
The costs of museum trips and admissions are typically NOT included in the price of tuition.
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Selected Links to Parisian and Regional Museums (including travel times from Argenton-Chateau)
Musee du Louvre - Paris (2 hrs 30 min, total travel time)
Contains one of the most important collections of art in the world, including European drawings, paintings and sculptures (1100 to 1848); Near Eastern, Oriental, Egyptian, Greek,
Etruscan and Roman antiquities, and objets d'art from the last 2000 years.
Musee Jacquemart-André - Paris (2 hrs 30 min)
is the most extraordinary private collection of art in France, rivalling the breadth and quality of the Louvre.
It features some of the finest examples of French, Flemish and Italian Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and 19th c. art in France, including paintings,
murals, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts.
(Perugino, Botticelli, Della Robbia, Tiepolo, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Vigee-Lebrun, Chardin, Boucher, J.L. David, etc)
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais - Paris (2 hrs 30 min)
Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 (stone, glass and steel construction),
it now hosts major national temporary exhibitions organised by the Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Association
Francaise d'Action Artistique (AFAA) and the Delegation des Arts Plastiques (DAP).
ENSBA - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (2 hrs 30 min)
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris inherited part of the collections of the Academie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture (founded 1648),
which were extremely varied in nature. They included the archives and inventories of the Academie Royale, engravings
of a number of works painted for admission to it, books and drawings presented to the Academies or projects submitted for their approval,
models collected for teaching purposes, works which had won the annual Prix de Rome or the various monthly competitions, assorted objects,
and so on.
Musee des Beaux Arts - Tours (1.75 hrs)
15th - 20th c. art, including Mantegna, Rubens, Le Sueur, Nattier, Boucher, Degas and Delacroix, 18th c. French furniture and decorative arts.
Current/Recent exhibitions include:
La Volupté du Goût - La Peinture pour Mme Pompadour
Musee des Beaux Arts - La Rochelle (1.5 hrs)
15th - 20th c. art, including Luca Giordano, Eustache Lesueur, Corot, Gustave Dore, -- special emphasis on 19th c. rochelais artists
William Adolphe Bouguereau, T. Chasseriau and Eugene Fromentin
The Cathedral of La Rochelle also features major works by Bouguereau, including his The Flagellation of Christ,
and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin.
Musee des Beaux Arts - Nantes (1.5 hrs)
Italian, Flemish and French schools; Modern and Contemporary art:
George de la Tour, Simon Vouet, Phillippe de Champaigne, Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet, Corot, Monet,
Sonia Delaunay, Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Chagall, Picasso, Annette Messager, Sophie Calle, Gerhard Richter
Current/Recent exhibitions include:
Simon Vouet - The Italian Years (1613-1627)
Musee Rupert de Chievres - Poitiers (1.5 hrs)
Dutch, Flemish and Italian painting in a hotel particulier:
Domenico Robusti, Passarotti, Giovanni Lanfranco, Valkenborch, Maes, Potter and Hondius.
Le Musee Saint Croix - Poitiers (1.5 hrs)
From pre-historic France to the contemporary:
Bronze Age, Iron Age, Classical sculpture (Roman Gaul), Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Modernist and Contemporary art
Works by Rodin, Camille Claudel, Flandrin, Gustave Moreau, Sisley, Bonnard, Vuillard, Mondrian, Max Ernst
Summer 2006 exhibition: Six Claudel à Québec: Sept Rodin à Poitiers
Musee Jules Desbois - Parçay les Pins (1 hr)
Jules Desbois (1851-1935), a friend and colleague of Rodin and Camille Claudel, was one of the finest sculptors of his time.
More than 100 drawings, maquettes and sculptures on display in the place of his birth.
Click here for the French website.
Musee des Beaux Arts - Angers (1 hr)
More than 500 drawings, paintings and sculptures on display in a majestically renovated 17th c building.
Special focus on the Italian primitives and Baroque, 17th thru 19th c French school
(LeBrun, de Champaigne, LaFosse, Watteau, Van Loo, Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, Vien, Guerin, Ingres)
and mid-19th c angevin academic painting and sculpture (including Lenepveu, Lehmann, Maindron, Signol and Bodinier).
Current exhibitions, click
here.
Recent exhibitions: David, Gericault, Friedrich, and a retrospective of artists
Marie Raymond and Yves Klein
Musee Pincé - Angers (1 hr)
Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Japanese antiquities in the Renaissance home of Neo-classical academicien
Guillaume Bodinier (1795-1872). Temporary exhibitions at the Musee Pincé recently included a
400 year survey of French drawing: Vouet, Poussin, Lesueur, Watteau, Fragonard, David, Guerin,
Ingres, Delacroix, Flandrin, Gericault
Summer 2007 - Summer 2009: Closed for renovations
Musee David d'Angers
(1 hr)
aka Pierre-Jean David (1788-1856) French sculptor, student of Jacques-Louis David.
Hundreds of works by the artist, including works of 19th c national figures, often nude, in the form of
monumental statues, busts, reliefs, and medallions, in a magnificent cathedral setting. His pediment frieze
for the Pantheon in Paris shows a group of distinguished French citizens receiving wreaths from the hand of France.
Chateau de Oiron - Thouars
(30 min)
A massive 16th century chateau, featuring a remarkably intact French Renaissance decorative and fresco cycle, based on The Iliad
(Ecole de Fontainebleau).
It now houses
an internationally ranked collection of contemporary art (Christian Boltanski, Sol Lewitt, Daniel Spoerri, Annette Messager, etc.)
on the Renaissance theme of "cabinet de curiosités".
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