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Sep 07, 2024
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ART 2051 - Painting Credits: 3 Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab 4 Course Description: This course expands on the foundational concepts presented in Introduction to Painting. Emphasis is placed on traditional and experimental approaches to painting using water-based oils. Topics include explorations of themes based on landscape, interior spaces, still life, and the human form. Painting assignments are supported by sketchbook exercises, readings, discussions, and research of historic, cultural, and contemporary painting issues. Open studio hours are available for outside class work if needed. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): ART 1051 with a grade of C or higher Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: ART 1024 and ART 1041
Major Content
- Materials
- Paint: Oil (Water soluble)
- Substrate Options
- Historical, Cultural and Conceptual traditions and implications
- Solvent, medium, wax, and varnish options
- Sketchbook as an idea journal
- Idea Generation
- Creative Problem Solving
- Writing an Artist Statement
- Generating personal metaphors and symbols
- Cultural/Historical awareness
- Historical painting/image making traditions and contemporary implications
- Contemporary painting issues/topics
- Historical overview of Landscape, Still-Life, Human form, Architectural Spaces
- Naturalism and Abstraction
- Color
- Balance/Harmonies
- Color Temperature
- Historical tradition/relevance
- Contemporary applications/implications
- Composition and Picture Plane
- Landscape conventions and dynamics
- Portraiture conventions and dynamics
- Still life conventions and dynamics
- Abstraction and Symbolic conventions/systems
- Color placement
- Technique and Meaning
- Gesture, texture, expression and meaning
- Underpainting/planning process and strategies
- Medium, product, and material options/applications
- Light and Luminosity
- Palette strategies/method
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- demonstrate safe studio procedures.
- create a series of paintings that are conceptually linked.
- demonstrate technically sound applications of water-based oil paint and supporting materials.
- solve visual and technical problems using research.
- develop effective solutions to painting assignments rooted in historical and cultural awareness.
- generate ideas using process sketches
- create paintings showing a variety of space and color relationships.
- create paintings using a variety of compositional strategies.
- effectively manipulate oil paint to create the illusion of form and space through a variety of subject matter.
- develop an autonomous aesthetic decision-making process.
- critically analyze paintings in groups and individually using terms and criteria common to art.
Competency 1 (1-6) None Competency 2 (7-10) None Courses and Registration
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