Location:

Riviere, France

Program Type:

Study Abroad

Degree Level:

Undergraduate

Term:

Summer

Program Overview

Program Description:

Arrive Date: 6/22/2013 End Date: 7/20/2013

In this program students will explore the French countryside, architecture and art by drawing and painting on site and in churches and museums. Live models will also offer work from the figure. The classes will first live and work in a beautiful estate with a chateau that resembles a medieval castle, situated on a sandy beach overlooking the Mediterranean. We will be working from the figure as well as the landscape that inspired the Impressionists and Post Impressionist painters. There will be field trips to Nice, Vence and Aix. We will then move to Paris where we will have access to its rich store of painting, sculpture and architecture, visiting the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay. Classes will focus on fundamental issues of form, color, light and space. Students will work on paper or boards with drawing materials and acrylic paints.

COURSES

Art 103B. Intermediate Drawing: Color (4 units)
OR
Art 105A. Advanced Drawing: Studio Projects

AND

Art Studio 198 Directed Group Study (4 units) (P/NP grading only)

Tentative list of planned museums:
The Louvre
Musee d'Orsay
Musee Bonnard
Cezanne Studio
Centre Pompidou
Musee Grannet
Musee Picasso
Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Orangerie
Cathedrale Notre Dame or Edgar Quinet Market
Rodin Studio

Upper-division units (open to freshmen through graduates). Taught in English. UC Davis courses taught by University of California, Davis faculty.

Please contact UC Davis Summer Abroad for the most up-to-date information concerning program costs. Programs start around $4,000.

All students enrolled in a Summer Abroad program (Davis and Non-Davis) will have the opportunity to apply for a Travel Award ($500 - $1,500.) Travel award deadline: March 5, 2013. Enrollment deadline is April 5, 2013.

Setting Description:

While in the French Riviera, you will be living in the beautiful Château de la Napoule, a Franco-American foundation, established in 1951 in the memory of the sculptor Henry Clews (1876-1937). The estate resembles a medieval castle, complete with crenellated towers, and is situated on a sandy beach overlooking the Mediterranean. The Château is a living museum which displays Clews's sculptures on the grounds, in his atelier, and in the elegant rooms of the castle, as well as various works by other artists in a program of changing exhibitions. It is also a cultural center and you are welcome to attend its series of summer concerts and plays. At the chateau, three buffet-style meals a day are provided on Mondays through Fridays and breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays. Breakfast is served in the Chateau and lunch and dinner is served in the garden of the Villa.
In Paris students will live in dorms or apartments. Meals will not be provided in Paris.

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