Students examine artistic styles, literary sources, symbols of the classical gods and goddesses, as well as the artist's depiction of the story's moral. Limit 60 students. The Christmas Story explores the presentation of Jesus' birth and childhood in old master paintings and sculpture. Limit 40 students. Line, color, shape, form, space, light, and texture are identified through a tour of twentieth-century painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Participants gain a basic understanding of the foundation of visual art.
Limit 60 students. Limit 60 students. Tools and Techniques combines a tour of paintings with a demonstration of materials including various brushes, minerals, and pigments used in egg tempera and oil painting. Students identify, describe, and explore portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes from the early Renaissance through postimpressionism. The artists' cultures and historical eras are revealed through their training, techniques, and choice of subject matter, style, and creative thinking.