This document discusses master studies in art and techniques for learning styles. It provides examples of artists that could be studied like Max Beckmann, Alexei Jawlensky, and Amedeo Modigliani. The assignment is to copy a painting, paying attention to color and composition, then create an original composition using the color palette of the master studied. Examples of student master studies and responses exploring color techniques are shown, analyzing artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Diebenkorn, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emile Nolde, Charles Demuth, Winslow Homer, Amadeo Modigliani, Kazimir Malevich, Vincent van Gogh

1. Color That
Sings Day 4
Master
Study and
Translation
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. Manet Monet Van Gogh
What is ‘style’ ?

3. HiroshigeRembrandt Manet

4. Each artist in
a ‘dialog’
with the
past.
Titian
Gauguin
Manet
Ramos

5. Master
studies are a
way to learn
technique in
the service of
different
styles.
• Max Beckmann
• Alexei Jawlensky
• Amedeo
Modigliani
• Diego Rivera

6. After Leonardo’s
Last Supper

7. Portrait in a style after
Thomas Gainsborough
and Richard Diebenkorn
Elinor Schnarr

8. MASTER STUDY ASSIGNMENT
copy a painting and pay attention (1) COLOR AND (2) COMPOSITION
choose something easy to draw but challenging to paint
THEN DO A SECOND PAINTING:
Your own composition and subject matter
But use the color palette of the master you just studied

9. A master study allows you the chance to try on a different hat
(Student study of David Park)

10. A master study allows you to speak to an artist “ancestor.”
(Student study of Kathe Kollwitz)

11. study of
Georgia
O’Keefe and
3 responses

12. study of Richard Diebenkorn and response
Lyndsay Erickson

13. Study of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and student response

14. Study of Emile Nolde and student response

15. Study of Georgia O’Keeffe and student response

16. Study of Charles Demuth and student response

17. Winslow Homer and student response

18. Study of Amadeo Modigliani
Self-portrait by Marissa Geoffrey

19. Study of Kazimir Malevich

20. Van Gogh
By Becke Aller

21. Gauguin

22. Adding green to
skin color is a
good trick to
make it feel
more lively
Lucian Freud

23. Skin is greasy, so skin also reflects the colors around it

24. Can you see the green?
Peter Paul Rubens

25. Alexei von Jawlensky
Skin color can be
anything you want it to
be.