ART 215 - Finding Your Vision,Finding Your Voice

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

ART

Description:

This course explores the nature of inspiration across artistic disciplines. We will examine poets, painters, filmmakers, choreographers, and writers both in terms of their creative output and their writings on the nature of artistic creativity, imagination, and inspiration.Then, using each of our creative thinkers as nature of artistic creativity,imagination, and inspiration. Then, using each of our creative thinkers as touchstones, we will look at ourselves as artists and ask the questions that permeate all disciplines of COPA: Why do we create? How do we create? Where do we find our inspiration and then translate it into artistic expression? Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, students will: (1) Define multiple historical approaches to the nature of inspiration and imagination. (2) Identify and describe patterns of how artists in different forms define inspiration and creativity. (3) Employ concrete tools for nurturing creative impulses and overcoming creative blocks. (4) Describe psychological, social, and metaphyscial arguments on creative impulses, the nature of imagination, and the need to translate inspiration into objective form. (art) (5) Recognize both the subjective and objective natures of art, and articulate the uniqueness of their own artistic voice and contextualize it within larger historical and cultural forces shaping art generally and their art form specificially.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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