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Painting: Sawy (year unknown), by William Turner ’65

The Art Department’s painting program embraces the rich, often contested history and vibrant, diverse contemporary practices that this vital, complex discipline offers. Students learn how to draw and paint from observation and investigate abstract perceptual issues and conceptual content.

Classes promote a love and understanding of color, which is considered an emotive, symbolic, and relational visual element. Students learn how to mix accurate colors, explore abstract color relationships, and develop a personal understanding of color’s expressive potential. Similarly, students are encouraged to manipulate different types of paint to create specific effects and experiment with the medium to discover aspects of its limitless material possibilities.

Introductory courses focus on familiarizing students with materials, tools, and the discipline’s unique visual language. Intermediate courses expand upon technical skills and hone perceptual awareness while addressing more multifaceted, personally significant, and culturally relevant ideas.

Equipment & Facilities in Painting Studio

  • Large open studio with skylights for abundant natural light
  • Retractable shades for controlled lighting
  • Life drawing model area
  • Individual easels and taborets
  • Ample art storage racks
  • Cleaning space and sink area
  • Professional studio lighting
  • Extension cables and cords
  • Senior Studio access for majors
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ARTS 201

Drawing into Painting: A Contemporary Approach to the Figure

This course explores drawing and painting as a means of seeing more acutely, examining cultural narratives, and experimenting with a range of materials. Technical skills are fused with conceptual inquiries and critical analysis. This course emphasizes the interplay between intellectual, expressive, and material aspects of the creative process as they relate to recording and relating visual relationships, expressing spatial and temporal phenomena, and critically engaging with art historical, contemporary, and personal issues and narratives relating to the figure and/or body. The course will begin with explorations of different drawing media and approaches and then shift to painting processes. Additionally, an examination of contemporary trends in art informs the themes and approaches explored in this course.

Prerequisites
ARTS 101 or 103.
ARTS 251

Painting

Students master basic skills in paint application and in rendering volumes and their environments. They learn the practical application of color theory to the visual analysis of particular light situations and to the mixing of pigment. ARTS 251 also emphasizes the notion of artistic intention. Students will be encouraged to make personal, conscious choices about subject matter, composition, lighting, and paint application. Ultimately, students will explore how such decisions infuse paintings and other forms of visual art with expressive and conceptual content. In addition to studio work, this course examines historical and contemporary art through lectures and readings. Students will also present their work and participate in regular critiques and discussions of reading assignments.

Prerequisites
For Studio Art majors and minors: ARTS 101 or 103 (no prerequisites for other students).
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