Academy

The Academy of Figurative Art was founded with the purpose of equipping students with the tools required for representational painting.

The program enables its students to reach a very high technical level in this style. The guiding philosophy ascribes supreme importance to the direct observation of nature and its description in painting.

The academy operates in a spacious studio with a window that provides steady natural northern light. It includes a coffee corner and a library, where students meet in the course of the day. The students work uninterrupted from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM, engaging in painting and drawing still lifes, classic sculpture, live models and portraits. The curriculum is designed in stages, so that the learners progress at the right pace for each individual, moving from one stage to the next as they are ready.

The exercises are built in sequence, with the aim of learning to create representational art. Attention is placed on learning and understanding all essential stages, from a quick sketch to the finished painting.

The academy provides its students with personal attention and focuses on the specific stage of progress of each individual. Open dialogue, support and encouraging each student to realize his or her personal potential and unique capabilities are fundamental aspects of the academy.

The academy draws its inspiration from contemporary academic programs throughout the world that concentrate on representational art, as it has developed since the Renaissance period in Italy.

The studio is located in a particularly beautiful area, at Kibbutz Hagoshrim in the northern Hula Valley, surrounded by lush greenery, near the Dan and Banyas rivers, and between the snowcapped Hermon Mountain to the east and the green Naftali Hills to the west.

The academy is known for its special atmosphere, the spacious studio that allows students space to work comfortably, inspiration, mutual fertilization and an exciting process, at the end of which every student can express his or her artistic ideas in painting.