Colorfield Abstraction
Class | This program is completed
This class will explore colorfield painting along with artists like Josef Albers, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler and others. We will discuss and learn different styles - from geometric to freeform pouring of paint and how color, shape, and line translate into a visual language. We will also learn to stretch our own canvas and work with a variety of unconventional tools and materials. This class will challenge you to think outside the box but more importantly how to creatively problem solve and have fun with color!
- Class will not meet on 9/22/21
- All our Covid-19 protocols outlined here http://westhartfordart.org/covid19 will be followed.
- Materials needed: sketch book, color pencils, painters tape, paint brushes (variety), *acrylic paint (primary and secondary colors), **unstretched canvas, 3 stretcher frames (24"x24"), 6 to 7 containers for mixing paint
- *student grade paint (does not have to be expensive)
- **10 ounce unprimed natural cotton duck 5 yard length by 71in width / or similar (on Amazon)
Joe Nicorici
Nicorici grew up in the Greater Hartford area. He graduated from Kingswood-Oxford in 1999 and went on to study at the University of Rhode Island. More recently he graduated from the Hartford Art School with a BFA in painting. His work has been in exhibitions and galleries in Connecticut and New York. His current work focuses on the figure, the everyday and time — drawing influence from classical Renaissance, the history of painting and his own family history.