 About Your Instructors |
| Joe
Vinson received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ringling School of Art
in Sarasota, Florida and a diploma in Painting and Drawing from The School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has taught classes in both painting and drawing at the Museum
School and at Cooper Union in NYC. Joe brings
to Etruscan Places a broad range of experience with a wide variety of painting
methods and styles.
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| Joe's paintings can be viewed:
Phyllis Lucas
Gallery, 981 Second Avenue, New York, New York ( Telephone: 212 753 1441)
Walker's, 1708 E. Sixth Ave, Denver, CO 80218. (Telephone: 303 331 0906)
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| Artist Statement:
Outdoor oil sketches as first practiced in the late 18th century
in Italy, a sanctioned exercise for advanced academic training for the
landscape genre, was the gateway to all modernist painting. As an
abstract painter, I find that this type of exercise returns me to my
historical roots and refreshes my vision.
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| The works shown below were all
painted outside in front of the subject using oil paint on canvas or paper. They were all painted
either 2005 or 2006. The paintings vary in size from a maximum of 24" x
30" to a minimum of 5.5" x 5.5" . |
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Because of materials, size, speed of execution
and location, the next group of sketches are about as close to the spirit of the original eighteenth
century practice of painting outdoors in Italy as I get without
placing my paints in pig bladders and painting with a box on my knees.
The paintings are on 15cm watercolor paper, the taped edge reduces the size
to about 5.5 inches square. They were all painted during a one week
period in 2006, just north of Rome. They were each created within a
couple of hours in front of the subject.
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