May be repeated for credit with change in topic. Contemporary Painting Issues. Advanced seminar focused on critical analysis, stylistic comparison, values, and cultural issues related to contemporary painting. Assigned reading, critical writing, and one extended research project. Varieties of abstraction in modern and post-modern painting practice.
Principal media are oil and acrylic paints, collage, mixed media.
Figure in Painting. Human form as a vehicle for artistic expression in oils, acrylics, and mixed media. Continuation of ARTP 3931 culminating in a public exhibition of a body of original art work.