ART 1041 - Foundation Drawing 1

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab 4
Course Description: This course introduces students to fundamental drawing strategies. Projects emphasize direct observation of nature, still life, and the human form. Assignments are designed to improve drawing skills, engage creative problem-solving, as well as broaden students’ knowledge of the cultural/historical relevance of drawing. Open studio hours are available for outside class work if needed.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
1. Historical/Cultural Overview

1. Origins and evolution of drawing as a form of human communication
2. Cultural context
3. Traditional and contemporary applications

2. Materials

1. Technical aspects and applications of common drawing materials

3. Elements of art applied to drawing

1. Line: Types, qualities and functions
2. Shape: Types, qualities and functions
3. Value: Applications and functions (form, depth, mood, and atmosphere)
4. Texture: Types, qualities and functions
5. Illusion of Space: Spatial devices
6. Color: (This course does not require a unit on color) Optional unit on color theory basics and how to use color drawing materials.

4. Principles of composition applied to drawing

1. Design terms and concepts
2. Picture plane dynamics and construction
3. Impact of format and cropping

5. Themes

1. Process vs. product
2. Introspective observation/Heightening visual perception
3. Objectivity vs. subjectivity
4. Abstraction vs. representation
5. Form, subject and content

6. Processes

1. Preliminary construction strategies
2. Sketching
3. Seeing and responding
4. Creative thinking strategies (convergent and divergent)
5. Analyzing complex/simple forms and spatial relationships through direct observation of nature, still life and the human form.
6. Utilize sighting and measuring

1. demonstrate basic strategic skills toward the creation of drawings.
2. visually communicate ideas and perceptions using traditional and contemporary drawing processes.
3. demonstrate effective use of a variety of drawing materials.
4. explain the vital role and value the fine arts and humanities have on the development of culture.
5. analyze the effectiveness of personal artwork and the work of others using terms and criteria common to art.
6. apply health and safety practices within the discipline.
7. analyze visual relationships observed in nature, still life, and the human form via drawing.
8. apply fundamental drawing strategies for constructing the illusion of dimensional space and form.
9. analyze drawings using terms, principles, and criteria common to art.

 
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
06. 01. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
06. 04. Engage in the creative process or interpretive performance.
06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.

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