Union College Visual Arts Artistic expression defines humanness, reflecting essential elements of human aspirations, culture, and society. The visual arts chart the progress of this world, which is at once ever-changing, yet ever the same. While art has an impetus of its own, it derives much from sources outside itself, including but not limited to mathematics, philosophy, literature, the sciences, and religion.
Art becomes a natural bridge in a liberal arts setting, constantly absorbing and regenerating.
Through the visual arts we learn about ourselves and the world around us through a language imbued with unique immediacy. The former is aimed at the study of works of art set in their historical context, while the latter is designed as a creative experience in the actual making of works of art.