PAINTING STRATEGIES: IMAGE AND CONTENT

Catalog description

This course investigates various contemporary painting strategies through the use of images as source materials, with a strong emphasis on narrative. Moving away from direct observation and towards the abstraction of imagery, students will be asked to approach their practice through research, preliminary studies and sketches, and a self-driven investigation of the use of images to create concept. Various prompts will be assigned and are designed to provide students with a stronger understanding of the use of found, self-produced, or appropriated imagery as reference for their work, while helping each student build a direction for their painting practice. We will look to other mediums such as film, photography, collage, and advertising to inform the painted image and improve the reading of contemporary painting. We will look to other mediums to better contextualize the painted image in contemporary art.