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Title:

"International frescos in Florence"

Project Leader

Prof. Ewa Kutermak-Madej
Academy of Fine Arts "Jan Matejko"
ul. Humberta 3; 31-121, Crakow, Poland
Tel. ++48 12 632 13 31
Fax ++48 12 422 65 66 or ++48 12 423 23 89
E-mail: lochcam@kr.onet.pl

Brief description of the initiative:

Preparation of the panels using the techniques of modern frescoes on the topic "Fauna and Flora in Florence", using historical documents (as paintings etc.) of flora and fauna of old Florence as a base and inspirations.

Each student will come to Florence with a sketch of fauna or flora of his own idea (created by him but deriving from historical documents) and each team will combine sketches of it's members into a fragment of a painting (still on paper). All the fragments will be painted alfresco in the right parts (modules) of the painting. The most interesting painting (combined from 8 modules) will be arranged.

Afresco painting instruments: panels special to this kind of painting, paints and professional pigments pencils, paper, charcoal, sticks, brushes, spadels......

Organisation of the workshop is an atelier with 8 places for working groups.

• Academy of Fine Arts "Jan Matejko"
  Cracow, Poland
  Prof. Ewa Kutermak-Madej
   
• Academy of Art, Design and Architecture
  Prague, Czech Republic
  Sen.lect. Roman Hudziec
   
• Academy of Fine Arts & Design
  Bratislava, Slovakia
  Doc. Vladimir Plekanec
   
• Academy of Fine Arts
  Budapes, Hungary
  Prof. Istvan Bona
   
• Faculty of Fine Arts, University Nicolaus Copernicus
  Torun, Poland
  Doc. Krzystof Pituka
   
• University of Arts and Design
  Cluji-Napoca, Romania
  Sen.lect. Theo-Sandu Muresan