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Students in Post Impressionist Painting Techniques will engage in a study of historical and contemporary techniques that build on the lessons of the original Post Impressionists. The Post-impressionists allowed for a dissolving of academic realism, in favor of developing more individualistic languages. Different temperaments in the personality of artists called for varying levels of departure from convention. A foundation of classical representational skills made for educated decisions in embracing elements of traditional visual imagery, or leaving them behind. Through explorative painting exercises the student will be encouraged to venture into their subconscious and find their honest temperament for picture making - effectively casting their line out, and choosing whether to reel it back or let it drift. Students will study images by Morisot, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Soutine, Seurat, Cezanne, Rousseau and others.

Class structure:

1.5 hour of lecture/demonstration

• Fixed camera on instructor’s demo painting

• Camera on model/subject

• Camera on palette

• Various reference images/examples on screen

• Work is completed in a direct, alla prima technique

1.5 hour of guided practice and critique (with continuation of defining forms and rendering teacher example during downtime)

Supplies and Materials- Class #4003:

Holzrichter has listed the specific paints that he uses in his somewhat-limited palette. He mixes and then tubes colors in order to wind up with various temperatures of greens and reds. You will not be expected to purchase the same brand that he uses, but a similar range will be helpful to achieve the desired effects.

Oil Paints

Old Holland Brand paints:

Old Holland Yellow Brown (or similar yellow ochre color)

Brown Ochre Deep (or burnt umber)

Ultramarine Blue

Nickel Titanium Yellow (or cadmium yellow pale)

Titanium White

Scheveningen Warm Grey

Neutral Tint (or similar tinting color, other than black)

Sennelier:

Chinese Vermillion (or any vermillion)

Brushes

Various Filbert Brushes

Various Flat Brushes

Surface to paint on:

Canvas, Linen, acrylic gessoed paper, or Wood Panel (at least 8x10 inches) for each week’s study.

Adam Holzrichter is a narrative representational painter who primarily works in a Post Impressionist style, with major influences from Degas, Cassatt, Morrisot, Courbet, Bonnard, Munch and many others. He earned a B.F.A. from the American Academy of Art, and spent a 6 month term with Odd Nerdrum at The Nerdrum School in Stavern, Norway.

A Chicago area native, Holzrichter spent most of the last decade surveying American culture by traveling and living across both coasts. Largely this began as an effort to subvert a suburban-midwest-Jehovah's Witness upbringing's influence over his ideas of morality, love, and human behavior. Today he lives and works in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.

Adam paints primarily from life to wind up somewhere between direct representation and fantasy. Often themes aim to elicit a sympathetic response, in order to encourage sincere private moments between the works and their viewers. Subjects commonly include scenes of enigmatic tension or discovery.

He has exhibited in Chicago's Flat Iron Arts Building, the Zhou B Arts Center with Poets and Artists Magazine, as well Pan Gallery in Los Angeles.

I'm loving the class and very happy I chose to take it. I also like Adam as a teacher and his approach to teaching these techniques. This has been really helpful to me, because I love the post-impressionists, but find it difficult to achieve certain aspects using life or photos as reference. I didn't fully realize how intentional the decisions need to be. This seems to be an effective way to teach this kind of painting.

Chaya H