Richer, more flexible visual structures can be learned by anyone and will enrich any life. Projects in graphic, product, fashion, interior, architecture, and urban design. Real world projects in design alternate with perceptual projects in drawing, painting, print making, and sculpture. Singles out key monuments and architects for special emphasis, e.g., the Parthenon, Alhambra, Chartres Cathedral, Palladio, Borromini, Frank Lloyd Wright. From architectural plans and preparatory studies for paintings, to Kekule's chains and rings of carbon atoms, or Einstein's image of a ball released in a rapidly rising elevator, visual thinking is one of our chief tools for understanding and acting in the world around us.
Drawing is the basic skill that hones our ability to think visually.
ART 210, ART 211, and ART 212, together with ART 312, constitute an ongoing drawing workshop available to all students every term without prerequisite. They may be taken individually or in any sequence. The centerpiece of the drawing classes is ongoing study in class of the life model. ART 312 consists only of drawing the model in class. Projects in still life, figure, landscape, and non-objective painting.