Painting Foundations: Collective Painting and Drawing

Painting Foundations: Collective Painting and Drawing is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies class taught by Daniel Schrade.

Course Description
The goal of this course is to develop an individual visual vocabulary and to experience and understand preferences in working with a variety of painting and drawing materials. Students will collectively prepare a large-scale canvas, later used as an experimentation field to stress color theory, effective visual organization and originality. Conceptual and material risks in oil, acrylic and charcoal will have to be taken. This course will develop from collective work towards individual set-ups and abstract work. Regular class critiques will assist in developing strong skills in the evaluation of work in progress, and in analyzing formal composition principles. Readings and one paper on an artist to be assigned will be part of this class. Assignments will require students to work independently in addition to class periods. This course satisfies Intro to Drawing prerequisites for 200 level painting courses. Field trip. $40 Lab Fee.