The Art Museum is partnering with the Arts Council of Princeton to provide free online art-making experiences. Weekly classes are taught by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom, so participants can join live from home. A variety of media and techniques will be explored, using materials readily available. Each week’s lesson features works from the Museum’s collections and is introduced by an Art Museum Student Tour Guide.
This live art-making class is inspired by Claude Monet’s Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge. This painting represents two of Monet’s greatest achievements: his gardens at Giverny and the series of paintings they inspired. Monet’s gardens were an Asian-inspired oasis of cool greens, exotic plants, and calm waters, enhanced by a Japanese footbridge. The serial approach embodied in this work was one of his great formal innovations. He was committed to painting directly from nature, sometimes working on eight or more canvases in the same day. Monet’s project to capture ever-shifting atmospheric conditions came to be a hallmark of the Impressionist style. In this class we will explore drawing the same subject at different times of day, in different weather conditions, or during different times of the year.
Free registration for the drawing class via Zoom here. (when prompted, click to sign in as “attendee”)
