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PLAYING with OLD MASTERS, Part II, online

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

This online, 6-week course will explore dimensions of Old Master paintings through EXPERIMENTATION!  Each participant will pick an Old Master painting to explore, moving through a charcoal analysis of the compositional structure, and ending up getting crazy, and experimenting with marking, color, and movement.  For those that love Old Master traditional painting, but want to […]

$450

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Abstraction as Discovery, in-studio

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

An 8-Week In-Studio Course.   How do we move from objective skill-based painting to an Expansive, Creative & Playful Engagement? How do we court and dance with Spontaneity, Risk & Courage in the studio? This course has been taught for over 20 years - helping scores of students find their own creative core and journey. The […]

$520
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FOUNDATIONS, Morning, in-studio, Fall 2024

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

This in-studio, ongoing, 8-week course is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and color. Working step-by-step we’ll develop […]

$520
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Abstraction as Discovery — Online

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

An 8-Week LIVE Online Course. How do we move from objective skill-based painting to an Expansive, Creative & Playful Engagement? How do we court and dance with Spontaneity, Risk & Courage in the studio? Jordan has taught this course for over 20 years - helping scores of students find their own creative core and journey. […]

$600

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GROUP CRIT – Fall 2024, online

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

Meeting LIVE Online for 8 sessions, every other Tuesday. September 3, 17, October 1, 15, 29, November 12, 26, December 10. Jordan will be facilitating a group critique for painters […]

$520
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The Reading Group – Fall 2024

The Painting Project Studio Online, Mountain Time CO

Meeting LIVE Online for 7 sessions, every other Tuesday. September 24, October 8, 22, November 5, 19, and December 3, 17. Over the course of the next few months we will be gathering online, every other week, to continue and deepen the conversation. The selection of readings we will be covering this fall will support […]

$245
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FOUNDATIONS, Late Fall, 2024

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

This in-studio, ongoing, 7-week course is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how to translate what we see into convincing and successful renditions. We’ll start with basic drawing skills, developing proportion, shading and color. Working step-by-step we’ll develop […]

$455
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Abstraction as Discovery: Working on Paper (online)

Mountain Standard Time

An Online 7-week Course. Using a non-achievement oriented practice, we will investigate the possibility of a dialogue between our inner lives and the life of the image. We will be working with basic questions of abstraction and how to experiment with formal elements such as composition, line, shape, mark, edge and value as a way […]

$525

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FOUNDATIONS, Winter, 2025

Jordan Wolfson's Studio 4919 North Broadway, Unit 16, Boulder, United States

This in-studio, ongoing, 8-week course is designed to give people the fundamental tools and skills to draw and oil paint from life. Working from still life, we will learn how […]

$520

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I thought I’d start by just by putting together a list of books and articles that I have found particularly relevant. When possible I’ll try to set up a link for them as well. Most of the links point to the books on the Amazon site which will give you additional information about  each one. Please click on the titles.

Forge, Andrew, Painting and the Struggle for the Whole Self

Gombrich, Ernst, The Story of Art

Hughes, Robert, The Shock of the New

Danto, Arthur, After the End of Art

Weintraub, Linda, To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet

Belting, Hans, Art History after Modernism

Gablik, Suzi, Has Modernism Failed

Gablik, Suzi, The Reenchantment of Art

Elkins, James, What Painting Is

Brenson, Mi chael, Acts of Engagement

Jacobs, Mary Jane, and Bass, Jacqueline, Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art

Becker, Howard S., Art Worlds

Shiner, Larry, The Invention of Art

Hyde, Lewis, The Gift

Dorfman, Geoffrey, Out of the Picture: Milton Resnick and the New York School

Shiff, Richard, Between Sense and de Kooning

Shiff, Richard, Cezanne and the End of Impressionism

Shapiro, Meyer, Modern Art 19th and 20th Centuries

Sylvester, David, About Modern Art

Sylvester, David, Interviews with Francis Bacon

Berger, John, About Looking

Berger, John, The Shape of a Pocket

Berger, John, Keeping a Rendezvous

Berger, John and Berger Andreadakis, Katya, Titian, Nymph and Shepherd

Forge, Andrew, Soutine

Galenson, David

Galenson, David, Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth Century Art

Beuys, Joseph, What is Art?

Lipsey, Roger, An Art of Our Own, The Spiritual in Twentieth Century Art

Perry, Gil and Wood, Paul, Themes in Contemporary Art

Spurling, Hilary, The Unknown Matisse

Spurling, Hilary, Matisse the Master