Milano Painting Academy is a highly innovative and professional academy of advanced training in drawing and painting, which revives the disciplines and principles used in the workshops of the great Renaissance masters in a modern way, in which students worked from “real life” and under the natural light. The teaching is therefore strongly focused on practice, with the students engaged on a daily basis in the drawing of figures from models and casts, in a fluid training course that welcomes students of any age and with any level of training and experience, to be taught in the same space and engaged in the same activity. The MPA teaching method in fact provides training courses in an open cycle without distinguishing between classes and academic years. In the teaching sessions, students are directly followed by teachers and visiting professors, so they can easily join the pre-existing group at any time of the year.
THREE-YEAR ACADEMIC COURSE IN DRAWING AND PAINTING
MODULAR INTENSIVE COURSE
THEORETICAL SEMINARS
FREE NUDE COURSE
CORSO DI ACQUARELLO CONTEMPORANEO

The MPA Method™

The programme at the Milano Painting Academy is a study plan that wants to move away from the traditional dichotomy between the “Contemporary” Academy (where figurative language is seen as traditionalist and outdated) and the various figurative academies based on the French method, for example Bargue-Gerome. In fact, the MPA method revolves around a fundamental concept: drawing is a planning and fact-finding process and not an aesthetic experience. This vision has its roots in Renaissance thought, which sees drawing as a preparatory tool for painting.

The focus on the student

The primary objective of the method is to provide the students with all the plastic and expressive resources typical of a professional painter.

In the Drawing and Painting programme each student works and practises at their own pace and progresses through the course gradually, with a personalised path that progressively increases the difficulty according to the growth achieved.

Students interact with a different teacher for each work area with feedback on individual results in order to ensure that the student digests the teaching at each stage of their learning by constantly correcting, modifying and improving all critical aspects suggested by teachers or visitors professors.

The focus on drawing

Present to a greater or lesser extent in all disciplines taught at the MPA, drawing is the heart of the teaching process of the Milano Painting Academy. Without a solid foundation in the practice of drawing, most of the difficulties that will arise during the artistic journey would be insurmountable. The MPA considers the focus on drawing as the foundational design process of knowledge to be the tool, a precursor to painting, which validates an entire training course that aims to provide the student with all the plastic and expressive resources typical of a professional painter.

Fundamental learning

Present to a greater or lesser extent in all disciplines taught at the school,  drawing is the heart of the teaching process of the Milano Painting Academy. Without a solid foundation in drawing, most of the difficulties that arise during the artistic journey are insurmountable. Painting is the obvious goal of drawing, impossible to pursue without it, and is conceived as an ultra-language that is grafted onto the language of drawing, which provides for the management of anatomy, proportion, sign, hatching, perspective. As the student progresses towards more complex projects, teachers will encourage experimentation with technique, colours and stylistic solutions so that the student finds their own artistic language.

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