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  • ART 116: World Architecture

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    A survey of key architectural monuments of the ancient to modern world. This course is organized chronologically and thematically around representative buildings-religious, domestic, civic, courtly-from ancient Greek and Roman to contemporary American. Individual buildings are analyzed in terms of their structural, stylistic, functional, and social meanings, and as cultural exemplars. (Mathews , offered annually)
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  • ART 125: Introduction to Drawing

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    A basic course in visual organization and visual expression, students focus on the relational use of the visual elements to create compositional coherence, clear spatial dynamics, and visually articulate expression. Students experiment with a range of drawing materials and subject matter. Required for studio art majors and minors. (Aub, Bogin, Yi, Ruth, offered each semester)
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  • ART 165: Introduction to Imaging

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    An introduction to the methods, materials, and history of camera based image making. Lectures involve camera usage, lighting, darkroom technique, imaging software, digital printing, and pictorial composition. Weekly lectures on the history of photographically based imaging from 1839 to the present will illuminate the profound influence such methods have on the way we perceive reality. A 35mm, film SLR:type camera or digital SRL type camera. (Jones)
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  • ART 201: AfricanAmerican Art

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course offers an exploration of the contributions of Black artists to American art, from the transplanting of African artisan traditions in the early 19th century to the fight for academic acceptance after the Civil War, from the evolution of a Black aesthetic in the 1920s to the molding of modernism into an expressive vehicle for the civil rights and Black pride movement of recent decades. Special attention paid to the Harlem Renaissance. Artists include Edmondia Lewis, Henry Tanner, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold. (Ciletti, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 202: Art Collection Internship

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This internship involves researching pieces in the Colleges' permanent collection of art and developing registration records and research components necessary for adequate exhibition and publication of those art works. Interns will be involved in cataloguing and researching several works of art over the course of a term. The intern will document the work in digital form by taking a digital photograph and arranging to have the work professionally photographed for future uses. The result of the internship would be museum collection training for the student. This is a half credit course. (Vaughn, P. Matthews, offered every term)
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  • ART 203: Representational Painting

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    A sequel to ART 105, this course focuses on the problems of painting from a source, including still life, figure, and landscape. Students works to reconcile the insistent presence of objects with the need to create pictorial lights, space and compositional and expressive coherence. Prerequisite ART 105 (Bogin, Ruth, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 204: Abstract Painting

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    A sequel to ART 105, this course focuses on the generation of an abstract pictorial vocabulary and on the investigation of a range of compositional and expressive possibilities for the pictorial use of that vocabulary. Prerequisite: ART 105. (Bogin, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 208: Greek Art and Architecture

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    This course surveys the art of the Greeks and Romans from the historical origins to the middle imperial period (ca. A.D. 200). Students examine the Greek pursuit of naturalism and their turn to emotion in art. Students contrast Greek use of ideal human form with the Roman interest in the depiction of individuals. In architecture, students study the classic expressions of Greco-Roman architecture in their stylistic unity and variety, especially in the way the buildings serve different functions with a limited language of building parts. Prerequisite: previous art history or classics course or permission of instructor. (Tinkler, Fall, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 209: Watercolor

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    An exploration of the fundamentals of painting with translucent color media. Western and Eastern traditions, as well as more experimental approaches, are investigated. Use of Gouache (opaque watercolor) may also be explored. Subject matter involves still life, figure, and landscape with excursions to rural and urban settings. (Yi, offered alternate years)
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  • ART 210: Woman as Image and ImageMaker

    3.00 Credits
    Hobart William Smith Colleges

    An investigation of women artists from the 16th to 19th centuries, with a brief nod to the 20th century, this course is concerned with the social and art historical settings, with placing both the situations and styles of women painters too long ignored. At the same time, it takes up some of the major female themes in Western art-Madonna, Venus, heroine, femmefatale-and places them in context. Special attention is given to Artemisia Gentileschi. This course may count toward a women's studies major. Prerequisite: one course in either women's studies or art history, or permission of the instructor. (Cilet ti, offered alternate year
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