The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art

Includes 6-hour painting demonstration, silent auction of the finished painting, and 3-hour hands-on painting workshop.
Students must sign up and prepay in advance as seating is limited.

Jeffrey T. Larson will demonstrate how he goes about creating a still life over the course of two days. The first day he will go through all the stages from set up and composition, lay-in, keying relationships, and developing the work to the middle stage. He will be discussing his philosophies on art, analyzing nature and his views on art. The second day will be a brief recap of how he got the piece to this stage and will then show how to continue and develop the work without getting lost in that middle stage, bringing the piece to completion, he will also discuss and demonstrate the glazing technique. The finished painting will be put up for silent auction (opening bid less than 1/2 of his normal pricing). Saturday afternoon will be a hands on workshop where the students will get the opportunity to immediately put into practice his methods and approach. The goal for the afternoon is to gain a working understanding of his core principles.

Jeffrey T. Larson was born in 1962 in Two Harbors, Minnesota and grew up in the Twin Cities. Jeffrey has been trained in the manner of the Old Masters at the prestigious Atelier Lack, a studio/school whose traditions and training methods reach back through impressionism and the 19th centuries French academies. He followed his four-year formal training with museum study in the United States and abroad.

$200 for entire workshop, limit 14.
$125 for painting demonstation only, limit 40.

As active realist painters both Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman have maintained a very close personal relationship since their student days at the High School of Music and Art in New York City. Working within an idiom that allowed them to study types drawn from life both painters have shared their ideas with each other, developing a close bond that continues until today. Through examination of their works Dr. Weisberg will elucidate their painting traditions, comment on the ties that bind them together and reveal how they both have created unique bodies of work that have been in opposition to the abstractions of the modern era.

Dr. Gabriel P. Weisberg is a professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota and has published extensively on French nineteenth and early twentieth- century art. He recently was guest curator for the exhibition Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photograpy, Cinema, 1875-1918 which was organized and held at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam in October of 2010. During the same time, Professor Weisberg had been examining the continuation of realist painting into contemporary times, assessing the contributions of many pioneers in maintaining realism as a viable alternative which culminated in a lengthy essay on the work of Harvey Dinnerstein, a book on Harvey Dinnerstein's career which was published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco. Most recently, Dr. Weisberg wrote an essay for The Atelier's publication On the Training of Painters: The Atelier's Past and Present an exhibition catalogue that was published by The Atelier. A catalogue on the works of Burton Silverman and the book on Harvey Dinnerstein will be for sale at the lecture as well as the catalogue On the Training of Painters: The Atelier's Past and Present.