Art Exhibition Opening Reception at Hersh Fine Art

CLASSICAL RENAISSANCE ART STUDIO PRACTICES REBORN ON LONG ISLAND

The Long Island Academy of Fine Art’s Full Time Professional Program Brings New Work to Hersh Fine Art

Members of Atelier Armetta, the full-time classical drawing and painting program at the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, will have their work on display at Hersh Fine Art, in downtown Glen Cove, from September 6^th through October 31^st. All are welcome to the opening reception for the exhibition, which takes place on Saturday, September 8^th, from 6 to 8 p.m.

The group of drawings on display represents the first two years of study in the program, during which the students have followed the Italian Renaissance-inspired nineteenth-century French method of learning to draw, creating figure drawings from life, drawings of classical antique sculptures, copies of Old Master drawings, and copies of plates from a book of studies and exercises by Charles Bargue, a nineteenth-century painter whose created a course for drawing students, the Cours de Dessin. “Atelier,” meaning artist’s studio or workshop, describes not only the program but also the time-honored practice of learning to draw through the painstaking and long-drawn-out method of copying and refining to a high degree of finish, rather than simply sketching.

The exhibition, titled A Fine Line: Drawings from Atelier Armetta, includes work by fifteen different artists, yet has a quiet sense of coherence. The drawings, done in pencil, charcoal, and various colored chalks, have a subtle range of colors well suited to the classical elegance of their subjects. Atelier Director Robert Armetta explains, “These drawings represent long hours of arduous study by students who are building a firm foundation on which to establish their careers as classical artists.” What visitors to the gallery will see in the work is not the difficulties the students encountered or the long hours they put in, but their beautiful results.

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For more information about Atelier Armetta or Hersh Fine Art, please call 646.508.7645, write info@hershfineart.com, or visit www.hershfineart.com.