Tuesday afternoon: STILL LIFE workshop with Henk Hubenet

The Road towards Abstraction

Even though these days figurative art is ubiquitous, abstract art has by no means lost its legitimacy and intrinsic value. The figurative approach to art often has a narrative, literary nature while, by contrast, the abstract approach shows similarities with the principles of musical composition.

During this workshop, Still Life will be our medium and our point of departure will be the change of course the arts took during the beginning of the twentieth century with movements like Fauvism, Futurism, Cubism, Suprematism, Neoplasticism and Constructivism. We will start by making a number of drawings from different perspectives. These drawing will subsequently be assembled to make a single image that is no longer connected to reality and will form the basis of a painting. This working method allows us to understand the different stages towards abstraction.

Realism and abstraction are two completely different ways of looking at the world. For all visual artists, it will prove to be an interesting challenge to explore these seemingly opposing visual processes and to examine how each is able to influence the other, thus discovering a possible reason for the persistence of abstract art in today's society.

4 lessons on Tuesdays from 13.30 - 16.30 hrs
14, 21, 28 September, 5 October 2010
Price: € 75.00 / Vrije Academie participants: first thematic workshop (of choice) free of charge, every next workshop € 37.50 

HENK HUBENET (1946) www.haagsekunstenaars.nl/cv/364/Henk+Hubenet