This will be achieved through class assignments and critiques, lab work, discussions on design and other art related topics, and an introduction to the historical and contemporary aspects of the photographic medium. Expectation of further commitment to image making as a means of discovery and self-exploration. Introduction to basic etching techniques. Hand papermaking will also be introduced. A strong background in drawing is important.
Printmaking is a matrix-based art.
Subtle interventions between the hand and the machine provide the tension in which to work. Woodcut, while a much older printing method, is introduced in this course as the innovations of Gauguin and Munch in 1893-95, coupled with a blurring of European and Asian approaches, gave rise to the modern conception of this medium. I is not a prerequisite, students coming from that course will have the flexibility to include intaglio techniques in their work. An introduction to water-based painting media, techniques and materials with an emphasis upon perception and color. Assignments are designed to assist the student in understanding the creative process and interpreting the environment through a variety of subject matter expressed in painted images.