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Roger Brinker
This lecture presents a unique opportunity:
This lecture will be held in person and via Zoom the evening of the Barnstone Gallery Open House April 27th 12pm – 5pm.
Since Myron Barnstone’s passing in 2016, Roger Brinker was inspired to explore his artistic connections, looking at Barnstone and his teachers, and their teachers, and so on, wondering how far back this went. What he discovered was a direct lineage – an artist genealogy – that extended through the entire history of Western Art! He learned that we and our teacher, Myron Barnstone, are part of a succession of artist/teachers that join together luminaries such as Delacroix and Degas, in addition to Raphael, Botticelli, and Leonardo Da Vinci!
Myron Barnstone always believed that the study and deep appreciation of art constitutes our collective heritage. What Myron didn’t know was that our connection with a vast number of artists he valued so profoundly was literally our birthright.
Roger is eager to share his discoveries and insights with the Barnstone community. Join him (Saturday evening, April 27, 6-8pm) as he explores our common artist ancestry and reveals our direct connection with many of the great masters of world art.
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Roger created a flow chart poster that details each of the artists that populate our Artist Heritage. Recently, he produced a T-shirt that displays a ‘greatest hits’ of our best-known artist ancestors. Everyone attending this presentation in person will be entered in door prize drawings that will include the opportunity to win one of the Artist Heritage posters or an Artist Heritage T-shirt. The posters and T-shirts will also be available for purchase the weekend of the open house.
[ As a teenager in the late 1970’s, Roger Brinker began his studies with Myron Barnstone. From 1985 to 2003, he taught the Barnstone Studios Youth Classes, where precocious students began their serious study of master design systems and the Golden Section. Today, Roger is the lead instructor of the New Barnstone Studios as we segue from the original brick and mortar institution into the virtual realm. ]
Roger Brinker
This lecture presents a unique opportunity:
After Myron’s death in 2016, Cat Barnstone-Szafran revealed a wealth of her father’s artwork which had remained in storage for nearly 50 years. Works that received critical acclaim in Paris in the 1960’s could now be viewed once again. Shocking and prescient when first seen in the Cold War era, these works have lost none of their power. Myron’s work remains strikingly fresh and relevant.
Roger Brinker was familiar with a few works that hung in Myron’s residence and with photo albums seen by select students in the early days at the Barnstone Studios. However, he was astonished by the trove of more than 500 of Myron’s artworks, representing 15 years of dedicated, full-time endeavor. He became involved in cataloging the works and developing a chronology. Activities led to further revelations. In addition to curating a teaching exhibition of Myron’s work, Roger started to analyze and interpret the artworks in relation to the principles of the Barnstone Method. Comparisons to the master work slides from Myron’s lectures at the Barnstone Studios revealed correlations with modernists like Jacques Villon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, and Rico Lebrun. Additional references cite Goya, Géricault, Rubens, and Michelangelo.
This lecture was enthusiastically praised by Studios alumni when first presented in person. For the disappointed art lovers that missed the live lecture we are presenting this opportunity to download and appreciate Roger Brinker’s presentation ‘De-Mystifying the Art of Myron Barnstone’. Â
What students say about De-Mystifying the Art of Myron BarnstoneÂ
Both the content and the way Roger presented the content was absolutely amazing! I am even more in awe of Myron’s draftsmanship, prowess and vision. Myron deserves to be reconfirmed as a powerful influence in the art world. Roger has done an incredible job unraveling Myron’s artworks and he pieced the puzzle of Myron Barnstone’s genius beautifully.
~ Rebecca Burritt
I loved Roger’s lecture about De-Mystifying the Art of Myron Barnstone. I thought it was brilliant and it gave me a huge jolt of inspiration. I studied with Roger in the youth classes and then moved into the adult classes with Myron for a few years. It was fun being back in the classroom with them both on this occasion. I am looking forward to more lectures like that in the future.
~ Danny MuhrÂ
Saturday, June 24th
Approx 2.5 hour lecture; 7pm – 9:30 pm EST
$75 General Admission Zoom
$50 Alumni Admission Zoom
*Scholarships available on Zoom only – please inquire by email to catszafran@gmail.com
Nurturing and building his student’s unique artistic voice from a strong mastery of the skills and techniques that are Western art’s legacy is Roger Brinker’s specialty.Â
In fact, Brinker invented a new research concept modeled on the idea of an artistic genealogy: by tracing his own teachers’ artistic roots, he was able to chart a lineage that links his students and himself in a line that extends to the very beginnings of Western art. Brinker’s students can see how their training emanates in a direct line to artists such as Edgar Degas, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci. A graduate of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, Brinker was associate and instructor in classical drawing and design at the Barnstone Studios, contributing as education advisor, writing design course workbooks, and developing the curriculum for the Foundation Drawing and Design program now offered virtually.
Brinker is a member of the art faculty at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts. He also taught at Lehigh University, helping to develop the Design Arts program, advising student design teams for the Lehigh University Integrated Product Development (IPD) program in the design, fabrication, and testing of new products for companies such as Ingersoll-Rand, L’Oreal, and Lehigh Valley Hospital. Brinker’s contagious enthusiasm and inspired educational approach, combined with his extensive teaching expertise and his own considerable skills as an artist, make him a sought-after educator and Barnstone Master Guide. Nothing gives him greater satisfaction and pride than watching his students discover their own unique style emerge from a mastery of the foundational concepts of art.
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