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3.00 Credits
See Art 250 for a description of this course.
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4.00 Credits
This course will incorporate environmental awareness with creative artistic responses to issues through the contemporary visual arts. It is intended to stimulate students seeking to learn about art placed in natural environments, art originating from natural objects, as well as to express statements on the environment through art. The primary studio focus will be on students creating their own art work in response to the study of environmental issues as well as what is learned from readings about contemporary environmental artists and their works. Also listed as Environmental Studies 260.
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3.00 Credits
CREATIV & COMMERCE ART & ENTR POPES MICH TO MODERNISM~ Since the early Renaissance, artists have been known by name and attained fame in their own lifetimes, in constrast to the customary anonymity of builders, craftsmen, and monk- artists of the Middle Ages. With fame came a need to promote oneself in search of employment, to employ assistants, and to work with teams of other artists, patrons, and scholar- theologians. Inevitably, artists had to learn to work as businessmen. They shared with their contemporaries the aspiration to become wealthy, which was considered a noble goal. Beginning with Michelangelo, the artist was artisan, individualist, creator, entrepreneur, inventor, bohemian, genius, and celebrity; a pattern that has continued to modern times. This course will examine the status, role, and identity that have evolved for the artist over the past five centuries. We will explore these qualities through examination of self-portraiture, biography, studio training, and artistic technique. Also of interest are broader themes of gender politics, critical theory, and practices of museums and galleries. Lessons from the past can help to elucidate how the artist is able to commercialize creativity while maintaining an authentic "voice." The traits of an entrepreneur--challenging conventional thinking; seeing connections where others do not; valuing team work; focusing on large goals; learning from setbacks; developing and appreciating self; and communicating effectively--are all in evidence in the life and work of past and contempomporary artists.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Seminar
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent Study
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Field Experience
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3.00 Credits
The South Asian sub-continent possesses one of the richest artistic reserves on earth produced by continuously active cultural centers among the oldest in the world. It is a region that gave rise to two world religions--Hinduism and Buddhism, and was the home to two others - Islam and Christianity, all of which fostered artistic production on a magnificent scale. This is an illustrated lecture course on the fine arts of India, with some references to art produced in Pakistan, Bangladesh , Nepal and Sri Lanka. The course will examine the arts of paintings, sculpture, and architecture created from Prehistoric times to the era of British occupation. Corresponding to the three weeks of the course, three eras will be highlighted: The prehistoric and Vedic Age, when the roots of Hinduism were established; the Buddhist era; and the Islamic era. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the historical and cultural events and significant individuals who shaped the appearance and content of Indian art, the purposes of works of art; their media and technique, and their style. Significant contextual issues relating to geography, religion, literature, and other art forms will be addressed both in class discussions and via student research papers.
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4.00 Credits
Beginning with the Late Gothic and Proto-Renaissance styles of 14thcentury Italy, this course will concentrate on the formal developments in the art of great masters such as Giotto and Duccio. The beginning of the Florentine Renaissance in the 15th-century art of Ghiberti, Donatello, Brunelleschi, and Masaccio will be examined in detail and the ramifications of their stylistic revolution explored in the work of later artists. A similar study of the High Renaissance will follow, with particular attention to the art of Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael, and the course will conclude with a look at the very different art of Renaissance Venice. We will explore the cultural background of the Renaissance: the cities, contemporary philosophy, Humanism, and the role of the patron. Consideration will be given to our changing understanding of the nature of the period, especially in regard to its attempted synthesis of Humanism and Christianity.
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4.00 Credits
The Roman church enlisted artists and architects in the spiritual armies of the Counter-Reformation, calling for the creation of a new art, persuasive and magnificent. The result was an explosion of brilliant artistic activity which spread to all parts of a newly wealthy and cosmopolitan Europe. Baroque is the age of the great virtuoso artists - Bernini, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Poussin - and of their great courtly patrons, such as Louis XIV, the Roman popes, and the Hapsburg and Stuart monarchs. The art is marked by a broad range of styles and themes, from the grandiloquent to the most intimate. The course will explore this dynamic period, from the Counter-Reformation through the Rococo phase of the 18th century, taking advantage of the excellent Baroque collections in local museums.
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4.00 Credits
For students who wish to further explore the possibilities of clay as an artistic medium. Potential students should have previous experience with basic hand building techniques, wheel work, and glazing. Emphasis will be on the application of more advanced construction techniques and the development of individual ideas. Areas that will be investigated include: methods of clay body development, the potential of various clay bodies, glaze types and glaze formulation and testing, and firing methods including pit, raku, electric, gas, and wood. These concepts and methods will be taught through group and individual projects. There is a lab fee for materials, and students must provide their own basic tools. Prerequisites: Art 230 or equivalent.
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