Milano Painting Academy
The Academy of doing
"Unlike other institutions, which favour a teaching method biased towards theory, Milano Painting Academy puts DOING back at the centre of the experience, teaching how to produce art with a very clear idea: drawing is a planning and fact-finding process, and not a purely aesthetic experience."
A strong identity
Milano Painting Academy aims to safeguard the founding value of technique as an essential element of artistic practice because, with the MPA method, the study and exercise of drawing, ornamentation and colour are the basis for learning to do pictorial art.
Drawing and Painting every day
Milano Painting Academy has set up its teaching by reclaiming the principles and disciplines used in classical art by the great masters of the Renaissance, reintroducing the concept of “art workshop”: a place where students work under the guidance of teachers, with models and natural light, or with controlled light beams.
Sponsorship of the MAIMERI Foundation
“If we want the arts to continue to be able to recount and represent our history and our nature, aspirations and conflicts, we must equip ourselves with tools that allow us to deal with a plurality of languages, signs, styles. Only in this way will our artistic and cultural identity not be a limit and will be perceived as an enrichment for everyone.”
Gianni Maimeri, Chair of the Maimeri Foundation, CEO Industrie Maimeri S.p.A
The MPA Method™
MPA is a method that is the basis of a study plan that intends to mark a moment of “rupture” in the setting and management of academic training, a rupture that manifests itself by departing from both the traditional “Contemporary” Academy, which considers figurative language traditionalist and outdated, and from the various figurative academies based on the French Bargue-Gerome method, and which places “doing” at the centre of any training moment
An open training cycle
The MPA teaching method provides a course in an open cycle that allows students to enrol at any time of the year and to fully integrate into the training path, simply by joining the existing group.
In fact, the MPA method does not separate students based on classes and academic years, as all students are followed directly and constantly by the teachers, stroke after stroke, while they paint.
A space designed for painting
A multifunctional space in the Stadera district in Milan, radically renovated and refurbished to ensure optimal diffusion of natural light, which is an essential condition for two of the training pillars of the MPA method, the daily practice of painting and observation of “real life” models.
A choice of location also linked to the desire to bring the quality of this painting school into the reality of this popular district of Milan, in accordance with the principles of spreading culture and promoting art that have always inspired and guided the activity of the Maimeri Foundation.
A suggestive location that will host professional Academic Courses, Seminars, Workshops, Events, and Exhibitions to enable and promote talents, kick-start an artistic-cultural fusion in the city, and create positive, good quality relationships around the theme of beauty and art.
Milan, capital of contemporary art
We have chosen Milan because it is the Italian city that embodies the greatest aspects of innovation and best combines them within a multicultural and multiethnic vision. Milan is the city that, more than any other in all of Southern Europe, has been able to equip itself with a “contemporary art system” in relation to large museums, foundations and public and private collections.