Course Description
An interdisciplinary course that engages the history, mechanics,
and language of painting as it manifests across medium and genre.
Students will learn about contemporary artists who use painting
in a hybrid way and will create works of art in the studio that
address painting in a post-medium-specific time.
Athena Title
Advanced Painting: Hybrids
Prerequisite
ARST 2100 and one ARST 3000-level course
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will develop and enhance skills in the techniques of hybrid painting and apply them in original and imaginative ways, taking appropriate risks to creatively solve problems, synthesize ideas, and develop imaginative and original responses in creative art practice.
- Students will enhance skills in observation and attention to detail, interpreting visual information through abstract thinking, engaging various sources of inspiration, research and experiences, while resolving creative challenges through appropriate methodologies in experimentation and critical evaluation, synthesizing an iterative working process of production, self-evaluation, problem solving, and refinement.
- Students will engage in the oral critique of creative works, interpreting inferences in symbolic and indirect discourse, supporting one’s conclusions with sound reasoning and judgement, while considering, engaging, and analyzing opposing viewpoints.
- Students will develop and effectively express ideas in written and oral form using language with clarity and precision, navigating interpersonal communication with respect and maturity, tailoring communication strategy and style appropriately for various contexts.
- While engaging the work of others, students will develop an awareness, appreciation, and knowledge of varying perspectives from cultures and communities beyond one’s own.
- Students will participate in a supportive arts community, developing self-discipline by initiating and sustaining a creative studio practice, while engaging and motivating others toward a shared vision of creative community through encouragement and trust.
Topical Outline
- Students will undertake a series of studio projects that deal with concepts of painting (such as color, surface, stretcher, and mark) in the expanded field.
- The assigned projects will include topics such as the painting-as-object, the combine, alternative supports, and non-traditional methods of mark-making.
- Critique and feedback sessions.
- Reading and/or writing project on historic and contemporary hybrid painting.
- Shop and/or craft skills tutorials.
- Exhibition and installation instruction.
