ART 202 Intermediate Painting (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Prerequisite ART 201 with at least a 1.5 grade or instructor permission.
Course Description
An Intermediate course expanding on the principles of representational painting, compositional, and technique. Students will develop increased formal, technical and expressive skills. Emphasis will be given to problem solving and personal expression.
Course Content
A. A series of assignments requiring the student to develop intermediate level skills, initiative and originality in self-expression.
B. Increased awareness of visual world through sensitivity of observation.
C. Specialized vocabulary and standard nomenclature used in painting.
D. Exercises to recognize and reproduce the components of color mixing.
E. Examination of relationships between subject, form, and content in personal expression.
F. Discussions on specific qualities and distinctions between aims of traditional and contemporary approaches.
G. Safety issues and practices in the studio.
Student Outcomes
1. Demonstrate advances in technical skills and compositional planning, insight, and resolution.
2. Define and apply the specialized vocabulary and standard nomenclature used in painting.
3. Develop small scale exercises exploring different painting approaches, such as, Scumbling, Impasto, Alla Prima, and Glazing.
4. Demonstrate a greater understanding and appreciation of how color, value, and compositional design relate to content.
5. Consider and incorporate knowledge of historical and contemporary art theories and approaches in relation to personal expression.
6. Perceive, analyze and interpret the elements that make paintings successful.
7. Employ safe and ecologically sound painting and disposal practices.
8. Present a portfolio of works demonstrating mastery of course objectives and originality of personal expression.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 35
Lab Contact Hours 30
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 65
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