Painting For Art Majors 3.0 UNITS

Catalog description

This is a course in painting designed specifically for art majors. Topics include use and manipulation of painting materials and color; depicting mood and sensation; expression of form, application of paint, and communicating through imagery and composition. Projects include creative thinking as applied to non-objective painting, formal invention, and symbolic imagery. Knowledge of art history is expanded through gallery and museum visits and assigned reading. This course introduces the history and evolution of painting as an art form and contemporary purposes are discussed in slide lectures and demonstrations. Students learn modernist approaches to painting, including Impressionism, Expressionism, Symbolism, Surrealism, and Abstraction are introduced to students as they develop their individual approaches to creating narrative paintings.