Press Release for The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art

AN ACADEMY OF VISIONARY ART SET TO LAUNCH IN VIENNA

Opening its doors in September of 2013, The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art offers a two-year and three-year Diploma programme with courses in historical painting techniques, old masters studies and life drawing, as well as visionary seeing and the exploration of myths, symbols and styles from East to West. It is an international teaching institution with English as the primary language of instruction.

Located in the historic Palais Palffy – home of Ernst Fuchs’ Studio, The Phantasten Museum, and the Galerie Palffy - the Academy was co-founded by Professor Ernst Fuchs and The Visionary Guild - a circle of ten artists who, having assisted Fuchs in the past, now share studio space in the Palais Palffy and teach the Academy’s core courses.

From London, Paris and Vienna to Melbourne Australia and the West Coast of America, these ten artists – five men and five women –transmit their love of craft while sharing insights into the artist’s vocation. Their names are already well-known in the Visionary Art world - Kuba Ambrose, Laurence Caruana, A. Andrew Gonzalez, David Heskin, Maura Holden, Daniel Mirante, Amanda Sage,Timea Tallian, Emma Watkinson and Aloria Weaver. Collectively and individually, they have taught hundreds of students, from all quarters of the globe, particularly through The Visions in the Mischtechnik Seminar in Italy.

At the heart of the programme is the individual artist’s quest for beauty, spirit and vision. The curriculum, developed by the Faculty as a whole, encourages both technical mastery and the creative expression of genius.

For more information, please visit the academy’s web portal at: http://academyofvisionaryart.com

or contact Florence Ménard at: office@academyofvisionaryart.com

Call for Public Art. Phantasten Museum Wien-- THE MUSEUM OF FANTASTIC ART IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA....Guest Curator: Prof Philip Rubinov Jacobson

PUBLIC CALL TO SUBMIT UP TO THREE WORKS FOR REVIEW

THE MUSEUM OF FANTASTIC ART VIENNA Phastasten Museum Wien

DEADLINE for submission of DIGITAL Images OF 3 PAINTINGS for Jury is April 30, 2012  

Send your 3 images to the Guest Curator, Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson eyepaint4u@yahoo.com

 Where: The Museum of Fantastic Art at the Palffy Palace) 1010 Wien, Josefplatz 6

 In two major gallery spaces at the Phastasten Museum Wien

 Theme: The intention of the exhibition is to show the generational life that Fantastic Art and Artists have propagated in 20th and 21st century art. It is important to realize that the artists selected for this exhibition will only represent a mere fraction of the now global branches of vision that has its origins in the roots of Fantastic Realism. It is equally important to offer the public an opportunity to realize the past, present and continuing generations of these artists that share a common passion that inspires an enormous spectrum of uncommon visions.

 When: August 4 – 26, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 11:00 am.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PROCESS

DEADLINE for submission of DIGITAL Images OF 3 PAINTINGS for Jury is April 30, 2012

Send your 3 images to the Guest Curator, Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson eyepaint4u@yahoo.com

Who:

Approximately 50 artists who are not already represented and in the Collection of the Phantasten Museum and working in the Fantastic genre’. Artists already exhibited by the museum will be incorporated and listed as being part of the exhibition “UNCOMMON VISIONS”. The artists selected will have studied under one of the founding members of The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and/or under one of the next generation of Fantastics such as Prof Rubinov Jacobson, Martina Hoffman and Robert Venosa, Michael Fuchs, Wolfgang Manner or Brigid Marlin. There may ALSO be artists submittiing who have had a long standing association to the genre’. NOTE: Again; artists already represented in the museum’s collection need not submit work as their work will be part of this exhibition and integrated in the presentation. Totally unknown and young artists are strongly encouraged to submit.

PUBLIC CALL FOR ARTISTS: The curator and director of the museum will consider a very selective number of additional artists who have not had a direct association to school of Fantastic Realism but have a body of work that is of a Fantastic, Visionary or Surreal nature.

Send your 3 images to the Guest Curator, Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson eyepaint4u@yahoo.com

 What:

Paintings are preferred, but in exceptional cases intaglio prints and drawings may be accepted. No REPRODUCTIONS PLEASE.

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