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3000 Level Painting and Drawing Course Descriptions
PTDW 3001
Painting Studio: MultiLevel
Extensive experimentation in studio problems and directions through
individual idioms are emphasized. The specific format of this course
varies with the instructor. Prerequisite: PTDW 2001.
Additional topics: Abstraction; Mixed Media Perceptual;
Nature Sources; Observation and Interpretation.
Topic: Conceptual Approach
This course approaches painting and drawing with an emphasis on concept,
idea, and language rather than precept and expressive intuition. It
makes special reference to contemporary theory including art’s
use and function.
PTDW 3025
Mural Painting
This course explores the process of large-scale work and mural painting.
Students will learn how to translate ideas from small-scale working
drawings to a large-scale format, and learn how to develop these ideas
for public installation. Students will be working collaboratively and
individually on how to approach and make proposals to research and create
large-scale and possibly site-specific projects. Initially, studio time
will be given to developing plans and execution within the limits that
the classroom provides. As predicated on each student’s area of
concentration and interest, cooperative plans will be developed towards
a public project to be carried out at the end of the class, and possibly
afterwards, as circumstances require. This course includes interaction
with visiting artists, field trips, slide lectures, and demonstrations
on specific transfer and painting techniques. Prerequisite: PTDW 2001.
PTDW 3030
Figure Painting: MultiLevel
Through observation of the model in space, students investigate form,
color, and composition. The course is designed for students who consider
the figure as an essential image. Prerequisite: PTDW 2001 and PTDW 2030.
PTDW 3037
Painting and Drawing:
Art and the Environment
This course will examine the historical roots of Western views towards
nature and contemporary ecological artworks which question assumptions
about the function of art. The goal of the class is to provide a context
in which to evaluate one’s use of nature subjects in light of
current critical dialogue. There will be assigned readings, discussions,
field trips, and lectures to augment the applied studio activity in
drawing and painting.
PTDW 3038
Digital Tools: Painting and Drawing
This is a class for students who want to learn to incorporate digital
imaging and output into their paintings and drawings. The computer lab
portion of the class will offer instructions in digital imaging hardware
(scanners, storage, and output devices) and software (Photoshop, Illustrator,
Painter). The studio portion of the class will offer demonstrations
of various transfer techniques for mixing digital surfaces. Additionally,
students will have time for pursuing individual work; there will be
group and individual critiques, and visiting artists’ presentations;
and as time permits, reading and discussion of essays on painting, drawing,
and digital imaging. Prerequisite: PTDW 2001.
PTDW 3046
Advanced Drawing: Form Invention
The exploration of representation strategies beyond direct perception
and conventional visual modes. Procedures will include exaggeration
and omission, stylization and abstraction, composite and hybrid forms,
secondary and double images, visual puns and rhymes, and multi-perspective
representation. Examples will be drawn from the span of art history,
both eastern and western, and from contemporary practice and visual
culture. There will be studio problems and exercises, sketchbook assignments,
individual projects, slide presentations, and museum visits. Prerequisite:
PTDW 2040 Studio Drawing: Multi-Level, or PTDW 2030 Figure Drawing:
Multi-Level.
PTDW 3050
Painting Materials and Techniques I
This course investigates the properties and possibilities of traditional
and modern media, grounds, supports, methods, adhesives, and pigments.
Prerequisite: PTDW 2001.
PTDW 3051
Painting Materials and Techniques II
This course is the second part of a two-semester sequence. The first
semester presents the full array of materials used in painting with
an introduction to some study of methods of construction. This course
puts those materials to use and carries forward the study of methods
and strategies of construction, beginning with Flemish and Venetian
painters, and carrying through late twentieth-century painting. The
subject of painting is studied from the viewpoint of the language of
material and process. Prerequisite: PTDW 3050.
PTDW 3060
Painting and Drawing Studio:
Art and the Spiritual
This is a studio course with accompanying lectures working from a basis
in the sacred, spiritual, and visionary traditions of art-making. Its
purpose is to assist and facilitate the students’ encounters and
explorations of these forms, whether representational or abstract, and
to discuss the work created. This course consists of studio work, lectures,
interaction with visiting artists, readings, visual research, journal
work, and a final presentation. Prerequisite: PTDW 2001.
PTDW 3070
Undergraduate Painting and
Drawing Seminar
This course engages issues of painting, the art world, and art school
significance in a discussion format. It explores these issues in relation
to students’ own work and discusses the uses to which art is put
by the artist and the culture. Mainstream, interculturalism, and social,
political, economic, and gender issues are explored. Discussion of students’
work and visiting artist participation supplement the seminar. Prerequisite:
PTDW 2001.
PTDW 3074
Issues in Figuration
This seminar is designed to interrelate with the advanced figure painting
and drawing courses; however, it is also meant to serve all students
whose work addresses issues attendant to the figurative image. The course
is designed to provide a forum in which to explore, through critiques,
readings, discussions, and visiting speakers, issues pertinent to the
subject of the figure. Students will be asked to construct a historical
and theoretical framework within which to view their art. Prerequisite:
PTDW 2030 or PTDW 3030.
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