Summer immersions at Telluride's Ah Haa School continue
[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Robert Lemler]
kicker: Lemler teaches "Light & the Figurative Subject in Oil"
Telluride's Ah Haa School continues its summer immersions program with an intensive in "Light & the Figurative in Oil." The class is scheduled for Thursday, July 7 – Sunday, July 10. The instructor is Robert Lemler.
We hold these truths to be self evident.... Art and light became twins at the end of the 19th century with the emergence of the Impressionists, but throughout art history, artists have used light to direct the eye of the viewer. Rembrandt, for instance, routinely lit eyes, the windows of the soul, and hands. Vermeer transformed light into dots, blobs and dashes of white paint that danced in the foreground of his paintings, suggesting the eye land here or there. (And then go goofy about the details in the overall image.)