Students will be introduced to flat and deep pictorial space from directly observed set-ups. Students may be offered the responsibility and challenge of constructing their own set-up from which they will construct, compose, and paint. Attention will be drawn to identifying the point where subject matter begins to shift to content through temperature, surface, form, composition. Frequent participatory critiques will draw out these points. While introducing more thought-provoking subject matter and critical thinking, students build on the methods and materials of Painting 1.
Assignments move from deep pictorial space into flat space and various 'fields' of painting.
The emphasis on participatory critique will be heightened in Painting 2, as students' ideas become more sophisticated. Painting 3 Abstracting and conceptual abstracting will be introduced in Painting 3, forming content through both the representational and non-representational. Subject matter will be directed by instructor, but will include large input from students who will be generating a visual discourse by and for themselves. Variable supports and paints will be introduced. Readings and participatory critique of finished works will form an integral part of this course.