{"id":2727,"date":"2012-05-14T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2023-10-24T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T17:08:58","slug":"a-childs-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/reve-denfant\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, I loved drawing, immersing myself happily in this colorful universe where characters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>life away from a sometimes unpleasant reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All children draw and have imagination, but sadly most of them give up the pencil when they grow up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That's what happened to me, I distanced myself from what I liked to do most, to conform to the rhythm of others and forget about painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, almost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the buried dream was only waiting to resurface, and the opportunity presented itself in my thirties when I was surfing the Internet and saw Artquarium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made room in my life for this dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It's true that I painted a bit on my own, but it was always the same old song and dance, and I wanted to break out of that circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Artquarium, more was revealed than I expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to learn painting techniques and I learned to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert Wolfisberg, painter and philosopher, teaches us to awaken to art and creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He guides us through our work at our own pace, making us feel valued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized that you need to know the language of painting to make a work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I had very old brakes, and the laws of composition seemed very rigid to me, because I was afraid of geometry and mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the lessons I was able to overcome these difficulties and I don't regret it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I knew colors, and I'm surprised to see a chromatic universe of warm and cold palettes, of value scales to be exercised in order to learn to discern subtle nuances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you can play, you need to hone your sensitivity in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The techniques taught in the workshop are complemented by theoretical explanations covering not only composition, but also art history and the analysis of paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert Wolfisberg shares his passion with us, inspiring us to use the techniques we've learned to create our own paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There's a warm atmosphere in the workshop, with students looking at each other's work and sometimes laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I've been taking Artquarium classes for 3 years now, and when I look back at my first drawings I'm delighted with the work I've done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to paint, to put more creativity in life and I wish it to you too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Jessica Berrini<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, I loved to draw, to immerse myself happily in this colorful universe where characters came to life far from a sometimes unpleasant reality. All children draw...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-temoignages-ecrits","tag-temoignages-ecrits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-artquarium.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}