For nonmajors only. Through a series of projects, readings, class critiques, videos, CD-ROMs, slides, and field trips, students are encouraged to explore materials, techniques, concepts, and processes that are essential to the understanding of the language of the visual arts and the role of the artist.
Students also develop imaginative thinking and sensitivity to their visual environment.
Focusing on two-dimensional design and color in a variety of media, the course establishes a basis for comprehension and use of a visual language. Continues the study of color and extends the study of methods and media into selected areas in two and three dimensions. Also ARIN 204, DANC 204, and THR 204. Introduction to visual thinking. Topics include information from visual perception, memory, classical and modern art, performance, and dance.