Painting: Women of Modernist Abstraction
9 Week Class | This course is completed
This course combines revisionist art history with hands-on art practice. Each class will begin with a brief presentation featuring female masters of early twentieth century Modernism, including: Hilma af Klint, Sonia Delaunay, Natalia Goncharova, and Sophie Tauber-Arp. The first half of the course will feature guided exercises focusing on composition, pattern, and collage; during the second half the course, there will be an opportunity for an independent extended painting project.
Base Tuition: $430 + Material Fee: $5 = $435 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Key concepts related to Modernist abstraction (e.g. biomorphic versus geometric abstraction, suprematism versus constructivism)
- How these women artist contributed to the Modernist abstract movement
- How to apply Modernist principles to abstract compositions
- How to use collage, colour and pattern effectively in abstract compositions
- Please keep all purchase receipts incase items need to be returned.
- Sketchbook (9” x 12” or larger, 90lb paper or heavier; suitable for drawing, collage, and ink; Canson mixed media pad is a good example)
- Paint set (acrylic or other water based paint) for guided exercises
- Canvas paper or other prepared surface for guided exercises (12” x 16” or larger)
- Brushes, rags, palette knife, palette
Rachel Crummey
Rachel is a visual artist and writer of settler descent based in Toronto. With a background in abstract painting, poetry, and contemplative practice, she is currently learning from non-linear intelligences through collaboration with fungi. In 2022, she joined the research framework SALT (the Institute for Sensual Awareness, Language, and Touch) with artist Tara Dougans. Her paintings have been exhibited most recently at the plumb and MKG127 (Toronto) and McBride Contemporain (Montreal). She has been an artist in residence with Open Studio (Toronto) and the Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria). She is a recipient of the Joseph Plaskett Foundation’s Nancy Petry Award for emerging painters (2015) and she holds an MFA from Guelph University. She gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.