The Free Columbia Art Course
is a quest into the heart of artistic action,
particularly the art of painting.
The Free Columbia Art Course is a full time, year long course based on the fundamentals of the art of painting as they appear and come to life through anthroposophy. We will seek out the colors and their relationships, the living laws of composition, light and darkness and the spring of imagination where all pictures have their source. As well as painting and drawing the course will include study of the basic elements of anthroposophy, history of art as an image of evolution, philosophy of aesthetics, (past and present), social questions in relation to art and economics, as well as other themes. We will work with a wide variety of media including watercolor, oil, egg tempera, charcoal, surface collage, block printing and pastel. During the year we will also work with eurythmy, singing and marionette theater.
The capacities that one unfolds in artistic creativity benefit all areas of life, for human nature is not mechanical but artistic. The course is open to all who want to pursue it.
