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The course will concentrate on the drawing as an object and on the physical activity involved in making it an expressive phenomenon. Students will exploit a variety of materials and will explore ideas, formal issues, and art history for inspiration, as well as natural phenomena. Work with the human figure will emphasize context and environment, and encourage the student to develop more personal attitudes toward content. Studio supplies fee: $20. Prerequisite: ART 101. Flanagan, Read, Staff/ Three credits
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This course will explore printmaking techniques with wood and linoleum block, collage, xerography, and artists' books. Studio supplies fee: $60. Rye/ Three credits
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This course is an examination of the Art of Assemblage: the current practice in sculpture in which collaged objects are made from debris of the contemporary world. Questions of memory, history, fragmentation, association, ecology, and language will be explored through the making of Assemblages from found, recycled, harvested, and created images and objects. Studio work will be supplemented by art historical presentations, museum visits, and readings. Studio supplies fee: $60. Prerequisite: ART 101, ART 106, ART 111 or ART 115. Orlinsky / Three credit
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A continuation of ART 111, this course will deal with both figurative and nonfigurative approaches to painting. Depending upon the instructor’s preference, students will work with the figure, the landscape, still life, or a combination of the three. Students will be directed in more advanced painting problems using varied techniques and conceptual frameworks. Studio supplies fee: $60. Prerequisite: ART 101, ART 111. Flanagan, Read, Rye/ Three credits
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This class will be a continuation of the study of graphic design with computers. Students will further explore the use of typographic symbols as a crucial element to design. Design history and critical issues in design will be explored. Students will work in a series of projects that emphasize visual expression, composition, and problem solving. The computer applications QuarkXPress and Adobe Illustrator will be introduced. Studio supplies fee: $75. Prerequisite: ART 115. Glushien/ Three credits
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This course introduces students to the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance from the 14th through the 16th centuries as well as theories used since the late 19th century to study these works. Proceeding chronologically, the course emphasizes the artistic, cultural, and historic context in which this art was created. The primary material studied includes religious and secular painting, architecture, as well as manuscripts and printed books created for public and private use. Lectures, discussions, readings and visits to the Worcester Art Museum stimulate discussion on issues such as the changing role of the artist, shifts in patronage, the use of art to express secular and ecclesiastic aspirations, experimentation with visual systems, innovations in print-making and printing, and the legacy of art of the Italian Renaissance. Beall-Fofana, Staff/ Three credits
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This course will examine the development of modern art in Europe and the United States, focusing on the period between 1880 and 1950. Starting with Post-Impressionism, we will trace the key movements in modern art (including Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism), and consider some of the more traditional forms against which they defined themselves. In the final weeks of the semester, we will also examine the concept of Postmodernism by looking at works produced between 1950 and the present. Norris/ Three Credits
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This course seeks to explore the major avant-garde movements in Western Art in the second half of the 19th century. Concurrent with the evolution of a modern society, as well as technological advances such as photography, Realism in England, France, Germany and other European nations, as well as in America, sought to combine an awareness of the changing social milieu of new urban centers and redefined rural areas with a penetrating modern vision and style. Subsequent formal and thematic innovations in Aestheticism and Impressionism redefined ideas of the subject of art and its means. This class will explore these works in terms of contemporary criticism, painting practice, and the construction of Modernism in this period. Norris/ Three credits
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Art since 1945 is the study of movements in Art in Europe and the United States from the end of the Second World War until the present. It will involve visits to local collections to see works and institutional constructions of the period. Through a study of Modernism and Contemporary Art students will learn how to approach the art of the present from a multiplicity of viewpoints and in terms of a broader visual culture. Staff/ Three credits
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This course is an examination of Islamic art and architecture that introduces the student to a non-Western tradition, encouraging the student to study art forms within cultural and societal contexts that greatly differ from those of the West. This course examines four areas of artistic achievement within the Islamic world: ceramics, architecture, textiles, and arts of the book. An overarching theme of the course is the role that representations of the Koranic verse played in the formation of all four art forms, thereby underscoring the fusion of faith and art within the Islamic world. Although the course is designed as a geographic and chronologic overview, certain art forms will be focused on in greater depth, such as Turkish ceramics ad Iranian manuscripts. The closing segment of the course examines 20th century Islamic architecture, that of mosques as well as secular buildings. Staff/ Three credits
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