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3.00 Credits
Introductory and intermediate problems in painting with transparent watercolor and gouache from still life, landscape, and figurative subjects. Surveys the history of the medium as well as contemporary approaches. Students enrolled in this course will have a course fee assessed to their student account. Additional information can be found at http://art.cua.edu/courses/courses.cfm.
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A survey of Western art from prehistory to the Middle Ages. Assists the student in a visual and critical understanding of the art of the past. The Western tradition investigated, with emphasis on such art forms as sculpture, painting, and architecture. Formerly 301.
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A survey of Western art from the fifteenth century to the present. Investigates Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Realist, Impressionist, and Modern masterworks in terms of their formal development and cultural context through readings, lectures, class discussions, and field trips. Special emphasis on developing skills of visual literacy and critical thinking. Formerly 302.
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An illustrated interdisciplinary introduction to art, history, and culture from the age of Enlightenment to the modern world. Emphasis on the varying conceptions of the individual, society, nature, and the divine as seen through the masterpieces of art and literature, as well as contemporary politics, and reigning philosophic and scientific theories.
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With the ever-present cell phone comes the practiced use of the built-in camera feature. ART 229, Cell Phone Photography, explores the possibilities of the phone as the modern day camera. Having the camera present at all times allows for the documentation of everyday life and the idea that art and imagery are all around you. This course will heighten student¿s sensory skills, leading to better images and opening up a new form of photography. With the cell phone and the use of the computer, students will create new art forms based upon assignments given to them specifically to be photographed in day-to-day situations. Students will acquire photographic skills in composition, computer rendering techniques in such programs as Photoshop and will create imagery suitable for internet and gallery display. No prerequisites are necessary. Students enrolled in this course will have a course fee assessed to their student account. Additional information can be found at http://art.cua.edu/courses/courses.cfm.
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3.00 Credits
Using a variety of software, students interested in the visual arts learn the basic tools and techniques for creating and manipulating images and transforming ideas into artwork, along with overall concepts of scanning and digitizing images. Painting and drawing software are emphasized and classes stress individual development. The computer acts as a tool to create artwork from models, still lifes as well as from the imagination. Work will be printed and critiqued. There will be weekly projects which may be finished during class, but may require additional lab time. Students enrolled in this course will have a course fee assessed to their student account. Additional information can be found at http://art.cua.edu/courses/courses.cfm.
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3.00 Credits
Using a variety of software, students interested in the visual arts learn the basic tools and techniques for creating and manipulating images and transforming ideas into artwork, along with overall concepts of scanning and digitizing images. Painting and drawing software are emphasized and classes stress individual development. The computer acts as a tool to create artwork from models, still lifes as well as from the imagination. Work will be printed and critiqued. There will be weekly projects which may be finished during class, but may require additional lab time. Students enrolled in this course will have a course fee assessed to their student account. Additional information can be found at http://art.cua.edu/courses/courses.cfm.
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3.00 Credits
Tired of pushing a pencil? Try this soup-to-nuts introduction to modeling the figure in clay. Begin by mastering plasticine techniques while sculpting a gargoyle. Then, using the life model as a guide, explore the expressiveness of the human body with a series of clay figure studies, based on various saints. Then create a 25¿ completed figure-sculpture as a final project. Students will become acquainted with historical approaches to sculpting and religious sculpture, and discover their inner Michaelangelos. Students enrolled in this course will have a course fee assessed to their student account. Additional information can be found at http://art.cua.edu/courses/courses.cfm.
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This course will explore the visual culture of Byzantine Empire from the founding of Constantinople in A.D. 330 to the 15th century. The class will use the resources of Dumbarton Oaks Museum, which holds one of the most important collections of Early Christian and Byzantine art in North America. We will experience first hand the objects in the collection, including mosaics, metalwork, ivories, textiles, icon paintings, and illuminated manuscripts from a variety of contexts, secular and ecclesiastical, private and public. Through a number of case studies we will think and talk about forms of visual expression in Byzantium and their use in the shaping and reproduction of main cultural and social structures.
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3.00 Credits
Elemental problems of painting on a two-dimensional surface; structure and composition, color, flat pattern, modeling and light, paint handling, and texture. Students work from varied life sources and imagination in oil. Studio, six hours per week. Open to concentrators and nonconcentrators; 303 is not a prerequisite for 304. Departmental approval required. Prerequisite 201, 202, 381 Students enrolled in this course will have a course fee assessed to their student account. Additional information can be found at http://art.cua.edu/courses/courses.cfm.
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