ARTS 2020 - Painting

4.5 Credits

Students learn fundamental painting concepts and techniques. The emphasis is on studio practices, color, paint manipulation, and visual perception. Students explore a variety of subject matter, formal issues, and expression within the context of historical and contemporary painting.

Prerequisites: (2) ARTS 1010 and ARTS 1020

Recommended: ARTS 2010 or ARTS 2110

Lecture Hours: 2.5
Lab Hours: 6.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives
1. Make several paintings, using acrylic paint in a variety of ways with increasing proficiency.

2. Construct and use a variety of painting surfaces.

3. Paint a variety of subjects that explore the illusion of 3 dimensional form and space, as well as abstraction and use of the imagination.

4. Solve painting problems that address formal concerns of composition, 2 dimensional pictorial space and color.

5. Make preliminary sketches for paintings that reflect creative problem solving and individual expression.

6. Make paintings that employ a variety of techniques, styles and methods that have been used throughout the history of painting.

7. Use the language of art and design to describe and analyze finished paintings in class critique setting.

8. Identify, define and explain basic painting concepts related to media, methods, styles and techniques in written and spoken form.

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