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This course focuses on diversity in contemporary studio practice through the unique approaches of faculty and/or visiting artists.This cross-disciplinary course incorporates projects, lectures, and critiques.Offerings include multiculturalism in the arts; materials and techniques; land, landscape and environmental arts; art and the archaeological process; New York experience: museums, galleries and artists' studios; art, politics and society, public art and community-based art, experimental photography, imaging and printing techniques; performance art and sound art; and interactive media and Web-based art.Three credits.
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This course develops fundamental studio skills and an understanding of visual thought processes.Emphasis is placed on concepts, contemporary art and theory, and a wide variety of materials and aesthetic categories including drawing, collage, sculptural construction, and installation.Students investigate the ways in which visual thinking can be used to realize an awareness of the world outside oneself.Through the themes of space and the world, the course exposes students to the visual languages of abstraction and representation, and emphasizes the honing of perceptions, the process of selection, organization, and the seemingly constant revision and decision making involved in art making.Formerly listed as SA 102.Three credits.
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This course focuses on the act of seeing and its intimate connection with mark-making.Experiences develop observational, expressive, and conceptual skills.Students explore the formal elements of drawing, such as line, value, composition, and form, and how they can be used to express an awareness of one's self and the world around one.The course explores a variety of materials and processes through in- and out-of-class projects.Students participate in critiques of these projects and, through writing and speaking, develop a language of aesthetic awareness and a sense of artistic quality.Formerly listed as SA 120.Three credits.
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This introduction to drawing from the human figure uses a wide variety of media and techniques.The course emphasizes understanding, interpretation, and expressive use of the figure in contemporary studio practice.Students discover proportion and form through line, value, perspective, anatomical studies, and analysis of structure.Students participate in critiques of their projects and, through writing and speaking, develop a language of aesthetic awareness and a sense of artistic quality.The course istypically offered fall semester.Formerly listed as SA 111.Three credits.
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This course introduces the methods, techniques, and language of oil painting.Students explore principles of color, construction, paint handling, delineation of form and space, light and shadow, surface, texture, and composition.Students paint primarily from observation and employ representational and abstract modes.Materials and historical concerns are integral parts of directed and individual investigations.Three credits.
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This foundation level course introduces traditional and experimental approaches to printmaking.It encourages development of imagery and technique, and emphasizes context through the medium.Areas explored include photographic transfer methods, digital imaging, mono-prints, silkscreen, and etching.The course is typically offered fall semester.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to three-dimensional form and space, this broad-spectrum studio encompasses the diversity of contemporary sculptural activities, including the construction of objects, installations, and site work.Students investigate specific concepts presented by the instructor using a variety of materials including wood, metal, plaster, clay, paper, mixed media, and fabric.Three credits.
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This course covers basic techniques of black-and-white photography, including negative exposure, film development, and print production; development of concepts and theory in photography; relationship of photography to other visual media; and study of historical and contemporary precedents.A 35 mm camera is required for this course.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers basic techniques of digital photography, including print production, the development of concepts and theory in photography, the relationship of photography to other visual media, and the study of historical and contemporary precedents.In addition, students will explore the manipulation of photographic images in both black and white and color through the use of Adobe Photoshop.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
How does visual language differ from written language How do they interact This course considers these and related issues concerning the nature of visual and written language.The course introduces students to the working methods and thought processes of independent artists, and engages students in a dialogue with contemporary artistic, social, and natural and/or political issues under the tutelage of a practicing artist.Typically offered every other spring semester.Formerly listed as SA 113.Three credits.
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