Drawing and Anxiety (Online Course) Summer 2024 w/ Joseph Podlesnik

July 22 to August 12 (Mondays), 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Eastern Time

**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.

DEMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_8NZXQu3Y

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Course Description

Beginning with Paul Cezanne’s outlook, attitude and frustration toward depiction, this course will concentrate primarily on the work/life/mindset of Albert Giacometti and his ways of seeing & drawing form and space. Along with this, some similar-minded contemporary artists will be discussed. I will show slide presentations/reading passages, perform live/pre-recorded drawing demos, and will show informative videos in class.

Course Outline

Week 1 – Introductions. A brief word about my teaching style. Slide presentation on Paul Cezanne and how he influenced the work of Alberto Giacometti. The ‘never or tentatively finished’ work.

Week 2 - Slide presentation (a survey of possible un-anxious drawings?, some of the other events in Giacometti’s life which influenced his art, etc.), drawing demos/seeing, video, discuss student work on Padlet.

Week 3 – Slide presentation (art theorist Rudolf Arnheim’s view of Giacometti), drawing demos/seeing, videos on Giacometti, discuss student work on Padlet. Contemporary artists who may share Giacometti’s approach. 

Week 4 – Slide presentation, drawing demos, video on Giacometti, discuss student work on Padlet.

Course Materials List

Graphite pencils
Erasers (plastic or kneaded eraser)
Acid-free paper
Sketchbook optional
And any other drawing media of your preference

Recommended Texts

Sense and Non-Sense, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Giacometti Portrait, by James Lord
Giacometti: A Biography, by James Lord