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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ARTS 211 and permission of the instructor. Continuation of ARTS 211 with emphasis on the use of the human figure as a compositional element. Lab fee required. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ARTS 111 and permission of the instructor. Living and drawing on site in Rome, Florence, Umbria, and Tuscany and with day trips to Pompeii, Assisi, and other important art sites in Italy. Students explore Italy’s vast artistic heritage within its cultural context, then apply this experience to their own art while working in the distinctive Mediterranean light. Media include pen and ink, pastel and acrylic. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTS 111 or permission of instructor. This drawing course is intended for intermediate drawing students. The goals of this intensive course are to practice drawing skills, learn about the tradition of art of place, and to produce a series of drawings based on a specific place. We spend the first two weeks brushing up on the basics of drawing while reading and discussing writings about place and site-oriented art. Image presentations and group discussion support the readings. Beavers.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ARTS 111 and permission of the instructor. Emphasis on color, design and spatial relationships. Work from observation and imagination in oil and acrylic. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ARTS 217 and permission of the instructor. Continuation of ARTS 217. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTS 217 or permission of instructor. This course begins with the introduction of en plein air, a French expression which means “in the open air” and is used to describe the act of painting outdoors. We examine artists who have worked en plein air, past and present, study their work and methods, and then apply this knowledge to painting outdoors. Emphasis is on the way light and color define form and space. Students build on their knowledge of color theory through observation and implementation. Beginning with the concept of plein air, we quickly branch out to more interpretive and subjective uses of the landscape in painting, resulting in a cohesive body of work. Lab fee required. Olson-Janjic.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTS 120 or permission of the instructor. A continuation of ARTS 120, with an emphasis on black-and-white craft and creative problem solving through both film and digital processes. Course includes a combination of demonstrations, studio instruction, and group critiques, as well as image presentations, readings, and discussions related to historical and contemporary movements in the medium. Lab fee required; cameras available for checkout from department. Bowden.
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4.00 Credits
Not open to students with credit for courses in alternative photographic processes. Prerequisite: ARTS 120. An exploration of 19th-century photographic processes, learned through demonstration and intensive hands-on lab sessions. Processes covered include cyanotype, salt, Van Dyke brown, wet plate collodion, kallitype, and platinum/palladium printing. Students learn how to make enlarged digital negatives for contact printing from photographs that originate in either film or digital formats. In addition to technique, students learn the historical background of each process and view images from both 19th-century and contemporary photographers, in order to gain an understanding of the context of the process within the history of photography. The course concludes with a group exhibition of the work created. Bowden.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTS 120. Spring Term Abroad course. Several major cities, including Paris and New York, play an important role in the medium of photography. Students are introduced to the historical context of photography and photographers of a particular city, as well as contemporary artists and exhibitions. Field trips to museums, galleries, and relevant sites play an integral role in the course. The geometry of the city provides a sharp visual contrast to the bucolic landscape of rural Virginia. Each student undertakes a substantial photographic project based upon a particular visual element or conceptual idea of the city, shooting for their project every day of the first three weeks while in the one of these cities, with regular group critiques. The last week of the course is spent printing the project and curating an exhibition of the work. Bowden.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTS 120 or permission of instructor. An introduction to the visual and technical principles of color photography, as applied in the digital realm. Students learn the concepts of color photography through applied projects, as well as image presentations, readings, and discussions of methods and artists, historical and contemporary. Students photograph in digital format, and learn the craft of fine color printing in the digital darkroom. Lab fee required, cameras available for checkout from department. Bowden.
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