Course on historical painting techniques in early Netherlandish painting

"The Impact of Oil: Historical painting techniques in early
    Netherlandish painting"
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
23 August - 1 September 2011

More information can be found below, and under the 'courses' section
of the website of the Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University:

    <URL:http://www.amsu.edu/
        en/course/3401/the-impact-of-oil-historical
        -painting-techniques-in-early-netherlandish-painting/>

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Interested applications should contact the AMSU as soon as possible
using the online form. They will then be asked to send a CV and
letter of motivation. Applications will be accepted until June 5,
2011.

The mornings will be devoted to presentations by members of the
research project The Impact of Oil: A history of oil painting in the
Low Countries and its consequences for the visual arts, 1350-1550
<URL:http://www.impactofoil.org/> and a few excursions to relevant
museum collections. The lectures will focus on the workshop
practices in early Netherlandish painting and the technical aspects
of the use of oil as a binding medium and its potential to create
illusionistic effects. In the afternoons, a practical workshop will
be given based on the study of original paintings from the
Rijksmuseum collection, which will be on hand in the studio.

The participants will prepare pigments, grind them with different
types of oils, and use these paints to create a reconstruction of an
area from one of the paintings. They will also be given the
opportunity to try out gilding and applied brocade techniques (so-
called "press brocade"). Special emphasis will be placed on the
various techniques used to depict specific fabrics: gold-brocaded
velvets, shot silks, and translucent textiles. Oil paint lends
itself well to producing different kinds of textural effects because
of its relatively slow drying, blending ability and translucency. A
number of the sessions will occur jointly with the 'Made in the
Netherlands' course offered by the RKD and AMSU.


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