ESSE Academy

The ESSE Academy – Painting School of Anatol Ghimpu is a professional easel painting school, founded with the idea of Academic Fine Art Education, meaning classical approaches and programme of teaching and training. Our main activity is focused on Fine Art Courses for both professionals and people interested in academic training of easel Painting, Drawing and Composition. Therefore, the ESSE team welcomes everyone who wants to gain a new practical experience and academic knowledge in easel fine art, as well as form an understanding of artistic practice for different levels and complexity.

Each DEMO course consists of 3 sessions, 3 academic hours each and is focused on a specific subject like studying still life, portrait or nude.

Easel drawing is one of the basic disciplines within academic and classical fine art education. Everything in the world starts from an idea, as well as every projection comes from a visual idea - a primary sketch. Thus, drawing always served as a fundamental of every visual beginning. Within the ESSE courses we cross all over the academic programme starting studying from geometrical bodies to nude models.
In our view, drawing begins with the culture of perception, aesthetics and artistic side of everything visible: a free stroke, a sense of the space around you and the model, the integrity of the flow of light, the coherent glide of the sight, as well as the measure of selection, the essence of what is seen. Namely this sense of measure is what we use to call artistic taste. Likewise, easel drawing means artistic vision education, which starts in Academias and Classical Painting Schools.

Easel painting is another fundamental practical discipline, being the most superior, complex and marvelous spheres of arts generally. First steps in painting involve studying of academic fundamentals, a range of fine art concepts, regularities and principles, starting from composition of elements in the format and ending with its integrity and artistic solution. It is a constant analysis, comparison and finally thought - spending of yourself.

At the same time, only the idea itself about the comprehension of color and its vision is already something beyond, something personal. Therefore, there might be no formulas for painting or perceiving color. Fine art education may highlight principles, may disclose color phenomena only, it can not provide recipes. Consequently, there is a long way for cultivating and educating the vision of color, which in the end is individual for each person.