Colour in art

Colour in Art

training course for teachers families students professionals

 

The Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Education Services are holding a new training course for teachers, students, professionals and anyone with an interest in the themes addressed. The training project addresses a wealth of different themes, ranging from teaching art to interpreting images, art books for children and hands-on experience in the workshop.

The Laboratorio d'arte is back with five sessions devoted to Colour in Art, looking at works of art, their interpretation and offering hands-on experience to understand the way artists view the world and to explore their message. Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Rothko and Klein are the five artists we have chosen because each one used and interpreted colour in his own highly individual way. During the seminars we will be using books by artists and illustrators from the Scaffale d'Arte as well as the Colour Kit of practical exercise books specially designed by the Education Services.

 

Saturday 23 November from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

Claude Monet

seminar workshop

Claude Monet loved to paint reality as he saw it, so he could set down on canvas the impressions his eyes perceived in the landscape. A single scene offers endless colour variations as the day progresses and the weather changes. Examining his Cathedrals, Poplars and Hay Stacks, we explore the countless possibilities offered by the use of colour.

 

Saturday 14 December from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

Vincent Van Gogh

seminar workshop

Though he paints his surrounding environment, Van Gogh tends to project his own self onto that reality and thus he interprets it through his own feelings, to tell us of a world filtered by emotions. The workshop is a reflection on the symbolic and evocative value of colour, which can also be expressed through the language of mime and gesture.

 

Saturday 18 January from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

Wassilly Kandinskj

seminar workshop

Lines and dots, simple shapes and colours harmoniously arranged on the painted surface: the abstract artist knows that each colour has a power of its own and the observer's sensations are constantly changing. This is a workshop of echoes and the free association of places, sounds, memories and situations.

 

Saturday 15 February from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

Marc Rothko

seminar workshop

Rothko's work consists of large surfaces of intense colour - red, yellow and orange - and immense canvases covered in thin layers of paint, where each layer of colour allows the observer to perceive the layer below. In this workshop we explore the technique used by the artist to train the eye to perceive transparency and depth.

 

Saturday 15 March from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

Yves Klein

seminar workshop

Blue is the colour of the sea, the sky and darkness - some of the most naturally sublime places in the world, yet also some of the most difficult to access. Klein assigns blue the power of involving and guiding the observer in a state of total freedom. This workshop is a full immersion in the colour, leaving our mark on the surface of the canvas and reliving the creative gestures of Klein's Anthropometries.

 

Info

Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Forum

via Milano 13, Roma

Saturday 23 November, 14 December, 18 January, 15 February and 15 March

from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

€ 30 per seminar (€ 24 for members)

€ 120 for the whole course (€ 96 for members)

information and reservations

tel. 06.39967500 -

reservation compulsory (while places last - max. 20 participants)

reservations accepted up to 7 days before the start of each seminar