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PAINTING THE FIGURE FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

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Course Number: 251PTPT110

Dates: Monday, January 13 - February 17, 2025
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Meets: M from 10:00 AM to 12 N , 6 sessions

Fee: $195.00

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This class is for students who are familiar with their media and who need time and counsel to bring their ideas to fruition. Any style of painting and all media are welcome. Emphasis is on composition, narrative, color, technique, and unity. Class time includes mostly individual help with group critiques in which all students participate in a positive and uplifting way. Students must supply their own photos or still life items. Instruction includes using these items as a launching point for learning what to include or leave out of the composition. Teacher demonstrations are also included.
Fee: $195.00

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Fee Breakdown

CategoryDescriptionAmount
Course Fee (Basic)Non-member$ 195.00
Optional FeeDonation$ 1.00

Beatriz Maliszewski

Photo of Beatriz Maliszewski

beatrizmski@gmail.com
Beatriz's Classes

To understand the work of Beatriz, it is helpful to remember the words of the great poet Antonio Machado: "wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking." In the same way that the paths we take in this life define our legacies, Beatriz's art is inextricably defined by her life's journey - that of young Spanish artist who moved to the United States and became a mother.

Born and raised in Spain, Beatriz's love for art blossomed at early age. She was taught how to paint by her beloved uncle Ramiro Ramos, a respected painter and avid admirer of Spanish Baroque legends. In her uncle's studio, Beatriz spent her adolescence observing and developing techniques to emulate the beauty that she saw in the works of Picasso and Vazquez-Diaz. By and by, she acquired a deep appreciation for the interplay between color and form, which is echoed in her compositions embracing the intimate, the subtle.

At the age of 21, Beatriz got married and left her studies at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid to move to the United States. There she enrolled in the Corcoran College of Art of Washington D.C, where she grew to love the style of American Modernists such as Edward Hopper's approach to composition and De Kooning's playful use of color. Since graduating from the Corcoran she continued painting, imparting art classes and maintaining a rich dialogue with artists around the world as she raised a family of 5 children away from public life. On one hand, her artistic path reflects the time and circumstances in which she has lived, a mobile society marked by the coming together of diverse perspectives and cultures. On the other hand, it uniquely couples this with the exaltation of the intimate, the quiet, the well timed, and the peace of her Spanish artistic and spiritual roots.

Beatriz's offers her viewers freeze-frame glimpses into her everyday life. Her paintings are characterized by conventional domestic items such as chairs, windows, and fruit, whose limited subject matter, although intimate, ensure that the main focus of each painting is visuality. Beatriz uses oil and pastels to explore the nuances of color and light over meticulously structured compositions, exuding an attention to geometry reminiscent to that of Spanish Cubists. With one distinct source of light in each piece, the viewer's eye wanders to every corner of the canvas in an attempt to digest the tension created by the unique effect that light produces in striking a surface in contrast to another. In alternating between these light and dark spaces, Beatriz applies a broad spectrum of colors that is both temperate and yet refreshingly playful. All told, Beatriz's works take the unassuming viewer down the off-beaten paths of their soul.

Visit Beatriz's webpage at http://www.ramos-rivera.com/

Date Day Time Location
01/13/2025Monday10 AM to 12 N RM 114
01/20/2025Monday10 AM to 12 N RM 114
01/27/2025Monday10 AM to 12 N RM 114
02/03/2025Monday10 AM to 12 N RM 114
02/10/2025Monday10 AM to 12 N RM 114
02/17/2025Monday10 AM to 12 N RM 114

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