Max Ginsburg
Max Ginsburg is a New York artist whose paintings are extremely realistic in form and content. His paintings explore the range of daily human life, concerned as much with life’s ironies and social injustices, as with its many joys. Issues of war and peace, racism and the inhumanity of man have been a major focus in his art.
He has exhibited widely and won many awards. In addition to solo exhibitions, his work has been included in Butler Institute Midyear shows, a National Academy of Design Biennial, an Academy of Arts and Letters (Hassam Competition), the Museum of the City of New York (Exhibition of paintings about New York), the Christophers, the Art Renewal Center, the Society of Illustrators and the New York Historical Society . His work is also in the collections of museums such as the New Britain Museum, The Art Renewal Center, Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Society of Illustrators.He was also one of America’s foremost illustrators, and he taught for forty years at the School of Visual Arts, the Art Students League and the High School of Art and Design.
Classes taught by Max Ginsburg
Seeing Form- Painting a Head from Life in Oil
This workshop will concentrate on painting a head from life in a traditional, realistic manner. The objective will be to see the unique form of the model and not to rely on preconceived formulas. Variations of form will be observed with different models, poses and lighting conditions. Attention will be given to perspective, foreshortening, the relationship of shapes, values, color and texture as it applies to the image of the model being observed and painted. Each day there will be a different pose with different lighting conditions in order to see variations of expression and form. We will paint on prepared masonite panels (see supply list) doing a painting each day.
The “Old Masters” will be our inspiration as we attempt to see the unique forms that Sargent would have seen and develop the form to realize a solid head in an atmosphere as in a Rembrandt painting,
Mr. Ginsburg will also discuss composing and developing larger figure compositions, using visual aids, as time permits.