Course Catalog Painting
Painting The Tactile + The Digtal: Painting in the New Century PTG 21X-31X-41X
Intro to Painting: Painting History PTG 221
The focus of this course is the role of Painting in the digital age. Students will use varied media and subjects, traditional and non-traditional, to further develop analytical and expressive means in their painting and creative practices. Students are encouraged to draw from personal interests and from many disciplines to develop projects that will be presented to the class for group critiques. Through slide presentations, gallery visits museum shows, and readings, information will be presented relating to the current art scene in order to further the student’s personal vision, help clarify directions, and explore a variety of formal, conceptual, and technical approaches to painting and image-making. Projects will address, among others, ideas and forms of light and space, color relationships, means and meanings of representation, text and texture, and gender, social and political issues. This course is open to all students with the prerequisite of Intro to Painting or with the permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
This is a beginning painting course. It is a prerequisite for painting electives and all advanced painting courses. This course introduces students to painting through historic painting practices and conventions using oil-based paint as the primary material. Students are asked to approach painting pre-photographically (as if the year were 1828). Students are introduced to the fundamentals of a traditional painting practice with an emphasis on observational rendering and applied color theory beginning with Newton. Students will learn about color mixing, brush types, support construction and general canvas preparation. Students will paint from life learning how to capture the threedimensional world on a two-dimensional surface as well as how to use material working through shape, form, texture, and mark to create an illusion of space and mass. Through critiques, discussions, readings, slide presentations, and museum visits, students will develop vocabulary and critical thinking skills essential to their studio practice as well as a sense of the history of painting leading to contemporary practices. Offered fall. 3 credits.
Painted Bodies: The Contemporary Figure PTG 220-320-420
Painting as System, Method, Organism + Concept PTG 226-326-426
This course deals with the position of the figure within contemporary painting. Figurative painting represents the continuation of a tradition that extends back before history and is yet poised to reach into any foreseeable future. Class discussions will be based on readings that deal with critical and historical issues surrounding the figure in painting and on the work of contemporary artists dealing with the figure from a painting perspective. By the end of the semester students will be expected to develop a cohesive body of work dealing with the figure as its subject. The student will also be required to articulate a statement that situates their work within a contemporary practice of figurative painting. This course is open to all students with the prerequisite of Intro to Painting or with the permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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This course examines the nature of Painting as it relates to other visual arts media. The creation of systems as a way to generate, organize, compose, pattern, plan, fashion, model, design, execute, and possibly destroy art work will be explored. Artists such as Sol Lewitt, Marcel Duchamp, Survival Research Laboratories, Vito Acconci, Fischli + Weiss, Chuck Close, Alfred Jensen, Jackson Pollock, and Mel Bochner will be examined within the context of how systems function within their work. Reading relevant texts, looking at work, research/special projects, studio work, group and individual critiques are an integral part of this course. Students may work in the area of their expertise. Goals + Objectives: Students should understand the nature of the decision-making process in the creation of work, and establishing analyzing and evaluating criteria. This
course is open to all students with the prerequisite of Intro to Painting or with the permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
Popular Culture + Imagery: A Painting Course PTG 227-327-427 This course will explore the symbiotic relationship of art and culture, and the particular ways in which popular and material culture influence the visual arts and vice versa NOW (if there are indeed any particular ways that stand out in this particular time as opposed to a different time in history). Students will learn to discern both the overt and covert affects/ effects of culture on contemporary artists as well as on their own work and that of their peers. Students in order to take part in relevant class room conversation/ discussion need a working knowledge of current events/ history/popular culture and will need to be ready to read and do research, etc. Open to all Students . 3 credits.
Painting: Framing the Subject + Construction of Meaning PTG 229-329-429 This course focuses on the further development of the subject of the student’s work. Emphasis is on strategies of meaning construction from the perspective of the artist’s intention. Students will develop and discuss intention embodied in a work through critiques and discourse and will explore the relation of means to meaning. Students are expected to engage in critical discourse surrounding the work of fellow students, established artists and in relation to their own work. The goal is to develop an understanding of the criteria, standards and values promoted by the artist and how these come to be understood by the audience. In addition students will be expected to demonstrate a personal commitment to a student practice and the willingness and ability to make work. Required for all 4th year Painting majors and open as an elective to any senior from regardless of major or with the permission of the instructor or Painting Head. 3 credits.