Opening of "Dignity Through Art" Exhibition

Left to Right: Brown, Citynskyj, Kazue, Ying, Skelcher, Patel, and Tucker

Monday night was the opening of "Dignity Through Art" at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, which featured local artists who sought to highlight the needs of those marginalized, homeless or needy people in Florence to tell their stories and honour their essential human dignity. The show will run from 16/05 to 26/05.

The Angel Academy was represented well by students and teachers alike! John Skelcher, Yang Ying, James Tucker, Ashish Patel, Hayley Brown, Masako Kazue, and Stephen Citynskyj all made work for the exhibit. It was a packed house - great show everyone!!

http://stmarksitaly.com/eve…/exhibition-dignity-art-project/

AAA Teacher James Tucker

Student Yang Ying

AAA Teacher Ashish Patel

Student John Skelcher (and children)

AAA Alumna Masako Kazue

Student Stephen Citynskyj

Behind the scenes

A section of the long-pose colour-class in the drawing stage

(Photo by Jered Woznicki)

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 Martínez, 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.

Follow the Maestro at the festival! 
http://www.ulsterfestival.com/michael-john-angel.html

The Maestro's Tour

Announcing our brand new video

The Maestro's Tour

See it now on our youtube channel:

http://youtu.be/TCKBC6iJWws

Annigoni

In 2010, the city of Florence celebrated the centenary of Annigoni’s birth. The Angel Academy of Art, Florence, was asked to start the celebrations by mounting a show of students’ and instructors’ works in the Villa Bardini, which houses the Annigoni Museum. In addition, maestro M. John Angel was commissioned to paint a portrait of Annigoni, which now hangs in the Villa Peyron Museum, a museum that honours expatriates like Angel who have contributed to the ongoing traditions of Florence.

M.John Angel: il maestro Annigoni, 1954oil on canvas80 x 55 cm

The Florentine drummers at the Angel Academy's 2010 Villa Bardini show

At Annigoni's grave in San Miniato del Monte for the 2010 Centenary of the maestro's birth. Left to right: Antonio Ciccone, Benedetto Annigoni, M. John Angel, Nelson White (standing to the right of the lady in white) and signora Rosella Annigoni (dressed in light green).

MJA and Benedetto Annigoni, during a 2012 visit to the academy.


2010 Villa Bardini show
 

Outside the show, in the Bardini grounds
 
Villa Bardini show catalogue