Visiting Faculty – Tobias HALL – Underpainting Demonstration, oil on linen, 2022

2024 AUTUMN INTENSIVE | 6-week Painting Program

“Only nature well-seen, well-studied can give you the original brilliance and genuine knowledge that distinguishes the superior man from the common one. I say ‘well-seen’ because if you do not look unceasingly with a comparing eye as I’ve asked you to, you’ll get nowhere.”

“La nature bien vue, bien étudiée vous peut seule donner ces lumières originales qui distinguent l’homme supérieur d’avec l’homme commun. Je dis bien vue, car si vous ne la voyez sans cesse avec ces yeux de comparaison que je vous demande, il n’y a rien de fait.”

– Jean Baptiste Oudry, Réflexions sur la manière d’étudier la couleur (1749)

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LOCATION: The 2024 AUTUMN INTENSIVE will be held in the Intensive Course Studio, on our campus in Argenton-Chateau (79), a medieval town north of Bordeaux, south of the Loire Valley, in the Poitou-Charentes region of southwest France.

Argenton-Chateau is situated 2.5 hours from Paris-Montparnasse (total travel time: TGV train + program shuttlebus).

Please see our FACILITIES page for complete details on the Intensive Course Studio.
CLASS DATES: 5 September – 19 October 2024 

Group arrival: Thursday, 5 September 2024, 5:15PM, Gare SNCF de Angers/ St Laud, France.
CLASS SCHEDULE: The daily schedule is 6 hours of life-model, 5 days a week (Sunday – Thursday, 9am – 6pm).

Figure poses will vary in length between 3 hrs. and 30+ hrs.

The course will offer lecture-demonstrations 1-2x weekly and in-studio critique, 3-4 days per week.
CLASS SIZE: 12 + instructor

WHO is ELIGIBLE? Anyone may apply. New students and alumni of all levels are encouraged.

All students must enroll full-time for this course.

There is no option for part-time enrollment, or late arrival.

TUITION PRICE: 3600 EUR, shared 2BR housing included

HOUSING: 6 weeks of shared 2BR housing in Argenton-Chateau included.
Private lodging costs +450 extra.

Students live in program housing, assigned starting July 15, in the order applications were received.

Please see our LODGING page for complete details on housing in Argenton-Chateau.

APPLICATION
DEADLINE:
1st MARCH 2024

TUITION
PAYMENT DUE:

9 MARCH 2024

HOW to APPLY:
Admissions for the 2024 AUTUMN INTENSIVE are OPEN.

Please review the ADMISSIONS page for general information about the application process.

Desktop and laptop users can apply ONLINE.

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Request the course application using the link below:

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Visiting Faculty – Tobias HALL – After Solomon J. Solomon, oil on linen, 2021

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COURSE DESCRIPTION:  “Painting and the Principles of Living Form”

The Autumn Intensive course is a full-time, structured curriculum with an emphasis on long-pose figure painting.

There is no option for part-time enrollmet, or late arrival.

Figure sessions meet for 6 weeks painting the human figure from life, 30 hrs. per week.

Figure poses will vary in length between 3 and 30 hours total, primarily painting the human figure, using a limited palette underpainting technique, as well as a contemporary prismatic palette for various “wet-into-wet” techniques (e.g. “au premier coup”, “alla prima”, “in-painting” or “form painting”).

It will be taught by visiting faculty Tobias Hall.

Please review frequently asked questions on our FAQS page.

Advice on how to get to Argenton-Chateau is on the TRAVEL to FRANCE page.

Visiting Faculty – Tobias HALL – Percival (NYC, 2019) / Olivia (France, 2011)