Last week, about a dozen advanced students from the core program had the chance to study and copy directly from the paintings and sculptures on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a fantastic opportunity to get up close and personal with several of the finest works of art spanning from Antiquity right up to the 19th century Hudson River School.
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Niki Covington copying
"Alpheus and Arethusa", Battista Lorenzi |
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Jessica Artman copying
"The Vine", Harriet Whitney Frishmuth |
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Patrick Byrnes copying
"Portrait of a Young Man", Bronzino |
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Anthony Baus copying,
"Saint Nicolas of Tolentino Reviving a Child", Garofalo |
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Zoe Dufour copying
a marble relief of a horseman |
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Charlie Mostow copying
a bronze statuette of a youth dancing |
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Will Jones copying
"Study of Two Heads", Rubens |
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Sarah Bird copying
"Julius Angerstein", Lawrence |
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Connor de Jong copying
"The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak", Bierstadt |
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Abigail Tulis copying
"The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche", Schiavone |
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Michelle Palatnik copying
"Self-Portrait", Rembrandt |
Every day for five days, we arrived at the Met Copyist Department, picked up our respective paintings and easels, and made our way through the halls to whichever masterpiece we had chosen. Painting in a museum like the Met, where the foot traffic is immense (consisting of people from all across the world) is quite an experience in itself. Several of the copyists found themselves within the center of literal mobs of people, while others managed to hide away in the smaller wings. Regardless, the experience was overwhelmingly positive and educational - the opportunity to so closely examine and reconstruct directly from the original paintings opened new levels of understanding into the methods and considerations of each copyist's respective painting.
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Connor de Jong after Bierstadt |
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Anthony Baus after Garofalo |
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Patrick Byrnes after Bronzino |
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Will Jones after Rubens |
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Niki Covington after Battista Lorenzi |
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Charlie Mostow after unknown Greek |
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Jessica Artman after Harriet Whitney Frishmuth |
Overall it was an excellent experience and many of us are hungry to return and copy again soon!
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