This exploration examines possibilities available to the painter in the late twentieth century. Through seminar discussion and studio practice, this course will investigate the use of visual language in a variety of contemporary media. An art studio course using the computer as an artistic medium. The course will investigate the philosophy, history, theory, practice, and socio-economic structures that underlie the development of the twentieth century artist, and will attempt to analyze the role of the artist at the close of the twentieth century. This investigation includes concerns of modernism, post-modernism, multiculturalism, the environment, and ethnicity, class and gender.
Topics vary from year to year.
Each student arranges, in consultation with an Art Department faculty member, the content of studio work and its exhibition or a significant project in art history, art criticism, or art education. For information on setting up an independent study see Academic Regulations .