Art Courses

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Presents fundamental concepts of visual arts: the language of form and media of artistic expression. Possible museum exhibition attendance.
 

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Covers techniques, materials, and terminology in two-dimensional and three-dimensional image- and form-making, in hands-on studio format. Includes major studio concepts in design, drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography and sculpture.
 

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(Recommended: ART 101)
Explores basic drawing concepts with dry and wet media: still life, landscape, portraiture and drawing the figure/the nude figure.
 

3

(Recommended: ART 101 and ART 106)
Emphasizes visual awareness through direct experience with visual form: elements of line, shape, value, texture, color theory, space and volume, painting principles and visual vocabulary.
 

3

(Prerequisite: ART 106 and ART 121)
Presents concepts, techniques, processes and vocabulary involved in working in the third dimension and emphasizes a variety of media and issues of space, form, mass and volume, line, texture, scale, proportion and the making of objects and spatial contexts.
 

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Surveys Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture.
 

3

Surveys Italian and Northern Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and 19th century Western European painting, sculpture and architecture.
 

3

(Prerequisite: ART 106)
Continues descriptive and perceptual skills building of Drawing I, with an emphasis on human anatomical structures and historic concepts related to the drawing of the figure; concludes with composition of the figure through use and study of models.
 

3

(Prerequisite: ART 106)
Continues course of study initiated in ART 106, offering further concentration on basic drawing concepts with greater emphasis on descriptive and perceptual drawing skills using wet and dry media and color. Assigned problems explore aspects of experimental drawing, media and contemporary concerns, still life, landscape, portraiture, and the figure in environmental contexts and in motion.
 

3

(Prerequisite: ART 106, ART 121, or approval of Instructor.)
Introduces the fundamental methods of printmaking. Explores techniques and creative aspects of monotype, collagraph, relief, and intaglio printmaking.  Discusses lithography and screen printmaking.
 

3

(Prerequisites: ART 106 and ART 121)
Explores the tradition of paint as a medium for artistic expression. Focuses on materials/media, tools, techniques, history and concepts of painting.
 

3

(Prerequisites: ART 106)
Develops skills in drawing and painting to depict the human likeness.  Uses various artistic media to explore the anatomy of the human head and face in order to express individuality and mood.  Examines the role of the portrait throughout history, together with the development of the skills.
 

3

(Prerequisite: ART 204)
Continues course of study begun in ART 106 & 204.
 

3

(Prerequisite: ART 207)
Continues course of study begun in ART 207. Emphasizes more accomplished technical skills and more sophisticated conceptual understand of content and form, with subjects drawn from imagination as well as observation. Focuses on the expressive potential of the medium.
 

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Surveys major figures, movements, and stylistic developments in western art from 1850 to the present.
 

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Presents interrelationships of three southwestern cultures emphasizing major forms of expression in pottery, textiles, jewelry, architecture, painting, and photography.
 

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Surveys the history of Western architecture from the pyramid to the post-modernist house; technological, stylistic, and functional characteristics of monuments within their cultural contexts.
 

3

Presents various topics. See Schedule of Classes.