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NAPLES ART INSTITUTE Date: 3/15/2027-3/16/2027 Time: 9:00 AM-3:00 PM on Mon Tue iCalendar: Download iCalendar Fee $585.00 Member Fee $550.00 Begin Registration Impressionism Then and Now Workshops | Available Program Description Explore Impressionist painting as a living tradition through Dmitri Wright’s Tree of Impressionism, guiding students from Natural Impressionism (Looking - Seeing), through Post-Impressionism (Insight - Visionary), to Transcendent Impressionism (Inspir

Dmitri at Silvermine Art Center: This five-day intensive is an immersive exploration of Impressionist figure painting that connects historical tradition with contemporary practice. Guided each day by a master artist whose work reflects a distinct stage in the painter’s development, students will engage with these influences not as distant historical references, but as living companions in the act of seeing and painting. Rooted in the principle Lux Ante Formam—light before for

The Impressionists’ palettes evolved differently than their Academy predecessors, the latter being generated by the craft guilds via the master to student tradition. The Impressionists’ palettes were revolutionary and simple in comparison to the maximized palettes of the Old Masters and even to the contemporary palettes often used today. Impressionist paintings reflected a radical break with traditional notions about color and painting. Impressionist artists were inspired by

Broken spaced Brushstrokes are used to communicate two distinct ideas. The first being representational brushstrokes for realistic interpretations and second for expressionistic brushstrokes playing with abstract ideas the latter is improvisation the former representational. Together viewers receive visual impressions of feeling and substance. Broken spaced gaps in between allow under colors to shine. This interplay is of brushstrokes is one of the hallmarks of impressionism

Culture Impressionism as a movement was formed from a rich interchange of ideas inspired by dialogue, debate, and mutual collaboration. These artists were successful because they had one another as inspiration. Their café culture helped establish a new university of the mind where they were free to exchange ideas that transcended the Academy's top-down model of which they were initially a part. For the first time, a form of creative cross polymerization took place between

The Ladder of Vision: Stewardship of the Artist’s Eyes “The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light.” — Matthew 6:22, NABRE We are made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:27). Our eyes are not merely optical instruments but portals to the soul—windows through which light, truth, and beauty pass into the inner life. For the artist, sight is both a gift and a vocation: the means by which creation is perceived and th