Forget Not Beauty, The Art and Teaching of Arthur DeCosta

Arthur De Costa was a 20th century American painter and a much revered art professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1966 through 1988. His keen interest in pre-Modernist art drove him to a lifelong study of classical painting materials and techniques.

Best known for his still lives and portraits, including of Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo, he also painted hundreds of small figurative studies that have rarely been seen before now.

He fervently believed that technical mastery expanded a painter’s range of aesthetic possibilities.

Sharing his research, both technical and aesthetic, with students, became his passion.

The variety and artistic merit of the many students who learned from him is astonishing. Not every student agreed with his aesthetics and some did not even like his paintings. But every one who was lucky enough to have him as a teacher or just get to know him, found that their creative lives were greatly enriched. As we listen to the voices of some of his students, we will see their work, not his, which is how he would have wanted it.

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