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3.00 Credits
Use of the still life and the fi gure. Color, value, composition, and some art history. Slide lectures. Prereq: ARTS 532. Lab. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to theory and practice of black and white photography as an expressive medium. Students provide their own cameras. Prereq: any studio art course or permission. Lab. Special fee. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Th eory and practice of designing three-dimensional compositions using a series of progressive assignments to develop a practical understanding of visual elements, including line, form, space, mass, and plane. Special fee. Lab. 4 cr.
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6.40 Credits
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the ancient Mediterranean world. Following an analysis of Paleolithic cave painting, the course surveys the beginnings of Western art and civilization in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Minoan Crete. Detailed examination of archaic and classical forms and ideas in Greek art; the course ends with the transformation and decline of classical ideas in imperial Rome. Group 6. 4 cr.
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6.40 Credits
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in medieval Europe. Beginning with Early Christian art, the course examines the interplay between classical traditions and the more abstract forms and ideas that emerged at the end of the Roman Empire and then fl ourished in Byzantine and early medieval art. Special attention to the development of the Romanesque and Gothic forms and meanings in the high medieval civilization of the 12th and 13th centuries. Group 6. 4 cr.
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6.40 Credits
European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the 15th to the 17th centuries. Th e course focuses on the revolutionary character of early Renaissance art in Italy and the Netherlands and the heroic age of High Renaissance classicism that followed around 1500. Examines the subsequent crisis of 16th-century Mannerism and realism, and the ruptures and continuities underlying the diverse forms and meanings of Baroque art in the following century. Group 6. 4 cr.
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6.40 Credits
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe and America from the French Revolution to the present. Surveys the rapidly changing currents and countercurrents in modern art, including Neo-classism and Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism, the Cubist revolution, and various forms of 20th century abstraction. In addition to the individual artists ans movements, discussion of the cultural upheavals that have driven modernism's pervasive sense of crisis and pursuit of the "new." Group 6. 4 cr.
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6.40 Credits
A survey of the chief and representative buildings from the entire history of architecture. Analysis of buildings with regard to structure, form, and symbolic content, concentrating on major works such as the pyramids, the Roman Pantheon, the Gothic cathedral, the Renaissance palace, the Baroque church, and the modern skyscraper. Writing intensive. Group 6. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Team-taught course studying the impact of gender defi nitions on the lives and works of selected American artists. Considers lesser-known fi gures such as Fannie Fern, Lilly Martin Spencer, and Mary Hallock Foote, as well as better-known artists such as Willa Cather and Georgia O'Keeff e. Prereq: permission or one of the following: WS 401, HIST 566, ENGL 585, 586, 685, 785, or a 600-level art history course. (Also off ered as AMST 608, ENGL 608, HIST 608, and HUMA 608.) Studio art majors who take this course for major credit will not receive major credit for ARTS 610. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on three major topics: 1) linear perspective, 2) anatomical and/or structural aspects of the human fi gure, and 3) special materials (painterly and/or mixed media). Outside assignments encourage original thinking about image making. Prereq: ARTS 532. Lab. 4 cr.
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