Maestro Michael John Angel's 2015 workshop was a huge success: 31 students, all immensely simpatici and all hard workers. The results were gratifying in the extreme. Here are some photos:
Women from all over the world in maestro's 2015 workshop
Showing posts with label Michael John Angel. Show all posts
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Monday, 13 July 2015
Sunday, 12 July 2015
Saturday, 7 March 2015
The Training of the 21st-century Representational Painter
Angel Academy's studio director, Michael John Angel, will be giving a talk (with 88 images) at the Ulster Festival of the Arts in Belfast on the 12th of March. The subject is The Training of the 21st-century Representational Painter, with digitally projected images of the stages of that training during the three-year programme at the Angel Academy, Florence, and will include examples of the great work being done by modern representational painters. These include Nelson Shanks, Richard Schmid, Donato Giancola, Roberto Ferri, Arantzazu MartÃnez, Rob Liberace, Juliette Aristides, Marina Dieul, Jeffrey Mims, Jacob Collins, Odd Nerdrum and others.
That same morning (the 12th), he is to be part of a panel discussion on modern art.
Sunday, 10 November 2013
Academy News
The Angel Academy's New Studio
2012 saw the Angel Academy of Art in a beautiful new studio on via Nardo di Cione in the bustling Piazza Beccaria area. No more running across the bridge between classes!!
- The Angel Academy's new studio in Piazza Beccaria
Michael John Angel at the Palazzo Tornabuoni
On Oct. 30th, Michael John Angel—ARC Living Master and Director of Studies at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence—gave a lecture at the historic Tornabuoni Palace in Florence. The lecture’s title was Annigoni and the Training of the 21st-century Realist Painter. Mr Angel studied under Annigoni in the 1960s.
Born in Milan, Pietro Annigoni (1910–88) moved with his family to Florence when he was a teenager and lived there for the rest of his life. He studied art at the Accademia di Belle Arti and soon became known locally, but it was only after painting his first portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of England in 1956 that he became the most famous portrait painter in Europe. Bernard Berenson (the art historian, known as the infallible Bernard Berenson) called Annigoni the greatest painter of the 20th century. Annigoni’s frescoes and allegorical egg-tempera paintings are less well known than his portraits, but they are equal to or surpass anything painted in the Florentine Renaissance.
In his lecture, Mr Angel stressed that the training of an artist in this newly renascent Realism is arduous. At the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, the basic programme is a three-year one, and this is followed by one of two post-graduate options, each of a two-year duration: Pictorial Composition and Portrait Painting. Even three years is an expensive undertaking, and one of the main thrusts of the lecture and presentation was to garner financial support for needy students. In the old days, Angel said, an apprenticeship in painting lasted at least seven years. More such presentations are being planned.
The student work that was shown in the lecture and displayed on the easels was beautiful. The works on display were by Jered Woznicki, Megan Byrne, Nicole Lalande, Bruno Galuzzi Corsini, Brianne Kirbyson, Giulia Bucciarelli, Chapman John Hamborg, Marilyn Bailey , Lucia Foresi, Jonathan Scull, Evanny Henningsen, Katie Runyu Li and Michael John Angel.
- Lynne Barton introducing the Tornabuoni lecture
- MJA's lecture at the Palazzo Tornabuoni
- Lynne Barton, David Aspin, MJ Angel at the Palazzo Tornabuoni
- The Palazzo Tornabuoni, Florence
- The Palazzo Tornabuoni, Florence
A feature of the presentation was Angel’s larger-than-life-size portrait of the British entrepreneur David Aspin, which was mentioned in a recent article on Mr Aspin in the Financial Times.
Friday, 22 April 2011
Staff News
Martinho Correia
On Friday, March 25, 2011, Martinho Correia’s painting Anastasis was accepted into the collection of Cardinal Mauro Paicenza. The work is a painting of the resurrection of Christ and was a result of Martinho’s 60-page Master’s Degree thesis, which looked at the influence of theology on the development of Christian Art and on the liturgy. This is Correia’s first work of art to go in the Holy See.
- Martinho Correia "Anastasia"
- Martino Correia (right) and Cardinal Mauro Paicenza
Michael John Angel
Michael John Angel’s painting Annigoni 1954—Angel’s portrait of the great painter, Pietro Annigoni, under whom he studied in the late 1960s—is now part of the collection of the Villa Peyron Museum. The portrait was commissioned by the Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, for the show that opened the year-long celebration of Annigoni’s birth.
The Villa Peyron Museum is dedicated to the foreign artists who made their home in Florence and who dedicated their lives to the artistic principles that made Florence famous.
There is an announcement about this on the ARC home page (www.artrenewal.org/) with some lovely and provocative, brief quotations from Annigoni.
- Michael John Angel, "Annigoni, 1954"
- Villa Peyron Museum
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