The art of Western Europe and the United States from 1780-1900, with emphasis on painting in France. Those artists to be studied include David, Goya, Delacroix, Courbet, the Impressionists, Turner, Homer, Cole and Eakins. The art of Italy and Northern Europe from 1300 to 1530, with emphasis on the painters Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Van Eyck, and Durer, the sculptors Ghiberti, Donatello and Michelangelo, and the architects Brunelleschi and Alberti. Emphasis is on advanced technical process. Casting of bronze and aluminum sculpture will be done in the school foundry.
Emphasis is placed on conceptual and aesthetic aspects of photography.
Emphasis on multi-plate and viscosity printing. Integration of tools to students own artistic process emphasized. A portfolio including examples of color, image processing and large format work will be produced. Concentrated, hands-on study of image manipulation, illustration and layout programs. Content of course includes fundamentals of vector and raster imaging, typography, design, layout, color separation, and manipulating computer images obtained from scanners, video sources, and the students own original production using computer paint software.