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3.00 Credits
3 credits Methods and expressive possibilities of water-based media: watercolor, gouache, dry-brush, and inks. The students use and experiment with the methods and materials of past and present artists, from the use of watercolor for "note-taking" to its rediscovery as a creative means of expression. This course is particularly useful for painting and illustration students. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course introduces the historical and contemporary use of nature as a source for abstraction. Students will develop painting ideas based on observation and interpretation of natural phenomena. Issues of scale, color, form, space, surface tension, and paint quality will be stressed. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the techniques of the great European masters and their relevance to creating work in the present era. Using oils, the students make their own painting panels and learn to use under-painting and over-painting, glazing, scumbling, etc. They study the methods of such painters as Van Eyck, Titian, Caravaggio, and Degas and the rediscovery of these methods in the twentieth century by artists such as Balthus, Paul Cadmus, Alfred Leslie, and Philip Pearlstein. This course is useful for painters and illustrators. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective and Studio Elective
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1.00 Credits
1 credits The goal of Color Theory and Practice is for each student to explore the nature and properties of color through discussion, practical application, class studio projects and accompanying readings. Students investigate color through projects exploring the seven major color contrasts, as well as color and light, color in a three-dimensional context, and the psychology and subjective symbolism of color. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light Fulfills: 1-Credit Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Working from observation of clothed and life models, students create paintings of figures that explore a range of expressive options. Formal and material issues of painting are emphasized in tandem with a focus on composition and content. Students investigate gesture and human expression through in-class and homework assignments. A wide variety of traditional and contemporary figurative work is introduced to discuss related issues for each painting project. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light and Life Drawing I Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A variety of new materials is used in contemporary painting. Students create personal aesthetic statements through the inherent nature of alternative materials, including mark-making in acrylic and oil; wall constructions and assemblage; and other alternative materials.?At the end of the semester, students develop a coherent series of independent works in mixed media. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light, and one 200-level Drawing Elective Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores the relationship between figuration and abstraction. Students work with the conceptual contributions of such twentieth-century modernists as Matisse, Picasso, DeKooning, Johns, and the New Image Painters. Subject matter is discovered through imagination and contact with real and photographed objects, figures, and space. Traditional and nontraditional painting materials are employed. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits A course expanding further on color issues in painting. Some of these are luminosity, iridescence, color assimilation, space, color as form, color as content, and color palettes of historic and contemporary painters. Although past and present views on the use of color in art are investigated, emphasis is placed on the student's personal interpretation and the use of color principles. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores the broad range of landscape and cityscape painting. Elements of color, structure, viewpoint, and paint handling common to both contemporary and historical landscape painting will be stressed. Both outdoor and studio methods will be introduced, with special emphasis on personal interpretation. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course addresses the potential of painting as pure abstraction independent from representation. Students extend their understanding of artistic intention, design, and materials through the exploration of a variety of media and strategies. Students are challenged to explore form, line, color and scale as elements of a powerful and unlimited visual language. Among the artists who will be discussed are Malevich, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Delaunay, Pollock, Louis, Martin, Riley, Marden, and Kusama. Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective
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