Ideas and the expression of those ideas are of the utmost importance. The second of a two-course sequence required for all art majors. As a foundation course, emphasis is placed on drawing as an expressive medium. Students search for expression of their own personal artistic identity through a series of process-oriented assignments using various colored media. In three two-hour periods each week, the human figure is analyzed in terms of structure, proportion, and form.
Emphasis is placed on representative as well as conceptual approaches.
Study includes form, color, and organization of painting in oils and acrylics with emphasis placed on individual expression. Offered by appointment only. Students may concentrate in watercolor, oil, acrylics, or mixed media. Emphasis is placed on creative nature of man and how creativity enriches society and the social, economic, and political conditions that influenced and constructed modern art. Study begins with the development of impressionism and moves through all of the major art movement of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.