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3.00 Credits
This course will examine works produced by such Italian artists as Leonardo, Giorgione, Bellini, Titian, Correggio, Raphael and Michelangelo in the cities of Milan, Venice, Parma, Florence and Rome from circa 1480 to 1530. The course will trace the formation of the modern manner (maniera moderna) or the High Renaissance style, assessing the role that these artists played in the creation of this new artistic sensibility. It will also discuss how each of these artists developed an individual style. Works of art will be discussed in relationship to the historical, political, social and cultural contexts in which they were created. Particular focus will be given to issues of patronage, reception and historiography.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys American artistic and cultural expression from the colonial period to the end of the Civil War. Introduces American painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and graphic work in a broad social and historical context. Includes the work of Copley, the Peale family, Jefferson, Cole, Durand, Bierstadt, Caitlin, Leutze, Greenough, Powers, Brady and Gardner.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the creation and meaning of medieval Italian art, paying particular attention to technique and display. We will examine a wide range of visual material in a variety of media such as sculpted portals, tombs and pulpits, illuminated manuscripts, painted panels, frescoed chapels and enameled reliquaries. This will include consideration of settings and space; the decisions made by both artists and patrons; and audiences. Consideration will be given also to the development of new types of images in relation to the cult of the saints and the rise of new religious orders, particularly the Franciscans and the Dominicans. Making use of works in local art collections, special attention will be devoted to panel painting and the various functions panels served within the medieval church as well as issues related to their display within the modern museum. The course includes visits to the National Gallery of Art and the Walters Art Museum.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to creating drawings based on observing a range of artist's models. The focus of the class is to develop a sensitivity to the structure, anatomy and expressive qualities of the human form in a variety of ways. Through concentrated in-class life studies, creative, personalized projects, and class critiques, students will discover new ways to render the human figure with confidence. Historic and contemporary references will broaden the students' understanding of the figure as an exciting part of visual language. Prerequisite: Beginning Drawing, or permission of the instructor. 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
This course is designed to build upon students' abilities to render the human form and to hone their visual problem solving skills. The focus of the class is to increase technical abilities of the students so that they may more confidently express themselves in a two dimensional form with both drawing and painting media. Through concentrated in-class life studies, projects, and class critiques, students will foster new ways to render the human figure with confidence. The course approaches the techniques in a cumulative manner. It begins with simple line studies and ends with the glazing techniques used by the Old Masters. The course is open to beginning through intermediate drawing and painting students. This course replaces Figure Painting and Drawing. Instructor approval required. Prerequisites: 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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3.00 Credits
Designed to introduce students to multimedia video and audio creation and rendering. Using Macintosh & PC hardware, Canon ZR10s cameras, Shure SM57 & 58 microphones, Denon DAT recorders and such programs as iMovie, Vegas Video, Sonic Foundry Acid, Sound Forge and Final Cut, you will learn the basics of digital linear editing; microphone placement techniques; sound and video capture; storyboarding, and more. An emphasis will be placed as well on learning to find and use inspiration from almost any source. You will create audio and video collages; learn to create video and audio regions; create titles in Photoshop, and engage in spur-of-the-moment creative exercises using Found Art, digital images and photos, public domain audio and video from the 1930s through the 1960s, and ephemera. 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
Video Art is designed to introduce students to digital camcorders, shooting video, and computer-based image and sound composition techniques. The course covers pre-production and post-production techniques, which includes image and sound manipulation and sequencing and rendering on digital multimedia computing platforms. Topics include, the unix and windows operating systems, MAC OSX, digital audio formats, audio editing and sequencing, digital image formats, image editing and sequencing, 3D geometric modeling, and digital presentation formats. Avid Xpress, Combustion, 3Dmax studio, Sound Forge and Acid Pro will be the primary software packages of focus. Authoring techniques and formats will be addressed based on time. Students will work individually and in interdisciplinary collaborative teams producing digital audiovisual presentations. Class projects will be presented in DVD format and in formats that are Web specific. Students are expected to produce portfolio-quality work. 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
Between the first and the eighth centuries, two new religions, Christianity and Islam, joined the Jewish and Greco-Roman religions. In this course, we will investigate the war of images during this critical period of intercultural transformation and change in the Mediterranean world. We will examine how old and new religions both competed and communicated via art and architecture. Through a number of case studies, we will investigate forms of visual expression in late antiquity; and we will consider how images of the divine functioned to shape and reinforce cultural and social structures.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis on development of individual style-form concepts. Materials and techniques of painting in oils, acrylics. Studio, six hours per week. Departmental approval required. Prerequisites: 303, 304. 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
Further exploration of sculptural media with an emphasis on the development of personal style. Material and techniques include a broader variety of media (metal, stone, wood, ceramics, and mixed media). Studio, six hours per week. Departmental approval required. Prerequisites: 305, 306. 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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