Arthur Rainville - The Five Ateleirs

Course Description:
If you are searching for new answers for your photography, your business or your personal soul – you need to spend this special time with our resident Alchemist Arthur Levi Rainville.

Arthur will offer a whirlwind week of Art and Heart inspiration and emotion. His poignant stories and private encouragements will set the stage for self-exploration. Drawing from his poetic, evocative Mansuesco style, he will lead you through inventive creative photographic sessions that will set the tone by adhering to a simple credo: “an artist’s job is to deepen the mystery.” You will compose images via Arthur’s fabled masterpieces called “Allegorie.” These Gestalt inspired classics, steeped in romantic overtones, will serve as a muse for your visual imagery.

Arthur will offer his Five Ateliers (artist’s studios) as a way to breakdown and attend to the elements of making more beautiful and meaningful portraiture.

The First Atelier will reveal Technique – from a reinterpretation of Caravaggio’s Chiaroscuro to cutting-edge digital intrigues.

The Second Atelier will explore Aesthetic – from creating the lost profundity of Vermeer to reinterpreting art for today’s savvy consumers.

The Third Atelier will make it Personal – discovering your private inner strength to create deeper imagery.

The Fourth Atelier will touch Spiritual – understanding the power of outside forces on your work.

The Fifth Atelier will offer Alchemy – Alchemy was known as the spagyric art after Greek words meaning to separate and to join together. You will celebrate your Visual Journey and marry it with a new mysticism for an exciting visual signature style.

This reawakening visionary will offer an artistic fusion of ideas designed to guide your imagery to a heightened sense of wonder.

Arthur will play with your mind, tug at your heart and return you to your world changed forever. If you need to add new energy to your photography and income to your business, not to mention a little sigh to your life - this is the class for you.

About Arthur:
ArthurLeviRainville, M.Photog., Cr., API, CPP has been called, “…one of photography’s premier creative minds.”

Arthur Levi Rainville, M.Photog., Cr., API, CPP has worked out of his decorous studio in historic Whitinsville, Massachusetts for 40 years. He is widely known for his soft, muted, granular color work. Refinements of this life’s passion lead to his lyrical, quixotic Mansuesco style of today. Defying a definable formula, Mansuesco, much like Impressionism, is a plurality of looks. An innate quality of light coupled with a compositional choreography is akin to his signature style. In a one-man show at the French Cultural Center, his work was astutely referred to as “…a synthesis of observation and imagination blended with a palette of gauzy colors.” Returning photographic portraiture to a high art form is his muse.

Currently teaching Portrait Studies and revered Artist in Residence at Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University, Arthur has taught portraiture professionally on three continents, inspiring the budding or seasoned photographer for 25 years - he has launched many notable photographers of our time.

Sought after for Keynote presentations at Professional Photographers of America, Wedding Portrait Photographers International and Society of Photographic Educators national conventions, Arthur always offers his unique brand of success – from the Art and the Heart. His weeklong classes at Texas School, West Coast School, New England Institute and Image Explorations in Victoria, Canada are sellouts year after year.

He is a prolific author with three published books on the Creative Spirit and numerous articles yearly in national magazines. Arthur continues to spread the word that Style matters. Besides being a noted touring lecturer he has Fine Art work being shown throughout the United States, South America and Europe. Having been called… ‘one of photography’s premier creative minds’… he currently offers private consultations and enrichment workshops throughout the Americas and European destinations.

His time is devoted and divided between personal portrait commissions, private consultancy and education and his on-going experiential art studies.

To view imagery go to: www.studiorainville.com