DR 140 - Thinking with Drawing

Institution:

Maine College of Art

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Description:

This course focuses on "drawing for thinking," or how one uses drawing to get at a core idea. Students learn to use drawing as a reductive process, as a tool for thinking. The course looks at a wide range of settings, beyond fine arts, in which drawing is used (e.g. furniture making, metals fabrication, ceramics building, illustration and design concepts, etc). Students examine the different ways in which each discipline uses drawing to get ideas - e.g. 3-D forms or motion pieces - down on paper: not just literally rendering those ideas, but capturing the ideas behind them and sketching them out. The goal of this course is to teach students to use drawing as another, broader based tool to access their ideas. This class is a technical drawing class in that it will empower students to present their ideas using inherited and widely recognized conventions of description and representation. We will be breaking down the conceits of drawing that are used to represent ideas, objects, etc. to show form, space, weight, reflection, heat, proximity. Elective: 3 credits/semester; 6 hours/week. Prerequisite: DR 100 or permission from instructor.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.meca.edu

Phone Number:

(207) 775-3052

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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