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LEONARDO DA VINCI to PICASSO

Painting Workshop presented by Donald Hall


This painting course will deepen the artistic process by exploring the difference between
subjective and objective in the use of color and form in painting. The artist is always in danger of
getting stuck in the subjective or fluctuating between these two poles. The task of our time is to
join the two poles of subjective and objective in a process of play or in a process of freedom as
brought forth by Friedrich Schiller in his aesthetic letters on the education of the artist and the
human being.
The human being and the artist in the act of freedom: both must become one.

Goethes color theory and Steiners color lectures teach us of the mystery and secrets of color,
indicating a path that helps us not to fall into the shadows of our own consciousness, or to
blindly follow others. We will practice the inner and outer technique of color application in:
Surface as observation, Light and Dark as movement, Line as expression of order. We will work
through a color process: simple to complex to simple
again, as it may be observed in nature. Finally, we will strive to find a living relationship to that
which is always becoming.
Discipline is the cornerstone of freedom, not its opposite. Marie-Agns Gillot

Donald Hall was born in New Mexico, USA. He studied painting in Dornach, Switzerland with
Beppe Assenza (1969-1979), becoming Assenzas assistant and also working in Painting
Therapy with children (1976-1978). He returned to the USA to found a painting school in
Harlemville, New York (1978-1985) which he left to ensure proper transition of the Assenza
School in Dornach following Assenzas death (1985-1988). Since 1988, he has directed his own
school, the Freie Malschule, Bolzano, Italy. His paintings have been shown in France,
Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and in the United States. He currently gives Painting and Art
History courses in Italy, Switzerland, Croatia, Canada and the USA.
Presented at :
Natura Medical Arts Centre, 105 Toronto St, Barrie On
July 22, 2016 Evening talk: 6:30pm - 8pm Open to all
July 23 & July 24, 2016 Painting Course: 9am -12, 1:30pm- 4:30pm
Cost: $180
Materials: 140 lb Fabriano watercolour paper provided. Please bring
your own quality watercolour paints and favourite brushes.
RSVP by July 20, 2016 Laura Wilson 416 605-0853
Presented in part by Golden Elm Farm and Natura Medical Arts Centre
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