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Creativity and the Arts
Painter's Studio
CHRISTIAN VON GRUMBKOW 
studied art and design with Prof. Rudolf Schoofs in Wuppertal, Germany and in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has taught for ten years at the Folkwangschule, the well-known art school in Essen, Germany and at Waldorf schools and teacher training centers in Germany, Austria, Canada, and the US. He is currently an art teacher at the Christian Morgenstern Schule in Wuppertal, Germany, a Waldorf school for learning-disabled and mentally handicapped students. Several of his paintings were selected for book covers by the German publisher Verlag Freies Geistesleben, and his work is shown at European art markets, including Art Cologne and Art Frankfurt. He exhibits throughout Europe, Canada, and the US. His work can be viewed at 78th-Street Gallery
One Week Intensive: July 20 - 26, 3 Sessions per Day
8:30 - 10:00 | 10:30 - 12:00 | 4:30 - 6:00
This one-week course will encourage students and painters to deepen their artistic experience of painting with mixed media. We will work mainly with "color fields" and the soul moods and the inner gestures of color. We will explore impressionism and expressionism. We will seek to experience how every color is itself a being which can be connected to the feelings of human beings, with consequences for education and healing. Steiner's and Goethe's color theories will form the background for our studies. We will paint freely and "out of color" as Steiner suggested. Participants will be able to work individually on different subjects and projects and — as one source for inspiration — we will work with meditative sounds and world music from spiritual backgrounds (for example, "Buddha Bar" or Peter Gabriel's "Last Temptation of Christ"). We will also paint together on very large sheets of heavy watercolor paper to deepen our experience of color and learn to work with the compositional forms of diptychs and triptychs.
A variety of techniques and materials, such as different brushstrokes, "drippings," and fingertips will be used to bring interesting qualities to our work with color.
Materials fee: $80
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