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ICARTS, SRL Italia
The International Center for the Arts and Humanities
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Painting: Observing and Abstracting in Umbria with Kevin Wixted
ICARTS, Italia: The International Center for the Arts and Humanities
July 6 to July 20, 2025
This workshop is directed towards artists, educators, and students interested in exploring the dynamics of classical Italian art and its relationship to Contemporary painting.
Our broad objective is to share experiences first-hand of great works of Italian Art, and consider these experiences in relation to our own studio practice. Using the remarkable landscape, art and architecture of Umbria and Tuscany as inspiration, this workshop investigates the ways in which perceptual study and abstraction can combine to form contemporary painting language.
In the beautiful setting of Monte Castello di Vibio, we begin with drawing and painting in the village and surrounding landscape. Daily work sessions in private studios are augmented with excursions, slide talks, and group critiques. We will travel the “Piero Trail” to see the major frescos of Piero Della Francesca in Arezzo, Sansepolcro and Monterchi. We will also visit Assisi, Perugia and spend two days in Florence to study works by Giotto, Perugino, Fra Angelico and many more great works of Renaissance art.
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Kevin Wixted
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Kevin Wixted’s paintings have appeared nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His shows have been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, ArtNews, The New York Times, Boston Globe, New York Observer, and the Hudson Review among others. . Wixted has been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Grants, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, an International Fellowship Faculty Grant and Excellence in Teaching awards from Alfred University. His residency awards include the Cite Internationale des Arts Paris, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, MacDowell Colony, and the Patrick Allen Frazier of Hospitalfield Foundation Scotland. His work is represented in public collections including the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Mississippi Museum of Art, Chase Manhattan Bank, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Noruma Securities, Societe Generale, and Time Warner. He is co-founder of the Alfred/Düsseldorf MFA in Painting Program. He is Professor Emeritus of Painting in the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, and continues to work as a visiting artist with graduate students in Germany.
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