Instructor: Steven Assael
Medium: Oil
Class Limit: 18 (with 2 models)
Fee: $950
Dates: Sept 11–15, 2019
Steven Assael will discuss both an analytical and emotive approach to painting the human figure with an emphasis on color and value relationships in a related atmosphere.
This workshop will consist of a single long pose in both cool and warm light. The development of form through observation and interpretation of plane shifts projecting and receding from the eye will be stressed.
Aspects of anatomy, proportion, and movement will be discussed along with the development of an Alla Prima technique which involves both scumbling and glazing. The course will involve lectures, demos, and critiques on a daily basis.
Steven Assael is an American painter recognized nationally as one of the leading representational figurative artists of his generation. His portrayal of the human image is empathic, ennobling, and psychologically penetrating. Assael’s figure compositions synthesize the characteristics of the past masters with a selective eye for the present, suffusing elements of naturalism and romanticism to blend contemporary techniques with those of the past.
Born and raised in New York, NY, Assael showed enthusiasm for art at a young age, taking art classes at the Museum of Modern Art at the age of four. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at The New York Academy of Art.
Assael’s work is included in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY) and the Chicago Institute of Fine Arts (Chicago, IL). In 1999 his work was exhibited in a ten-year retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington and CBS Sunday Morning ran a feature on the artist and the show.
