4000 Level Painting and Drawing Course Descriptions

PTDW 4000
Independent Projects:
Painting and Drawing
Undergraduate Projects gives the student the opportunity to explore a specific problem in the student’s area of concentration, carried out independently but with a faculty adviser. A schedule of conferences is usually established at the beginning of the semester. Instructor signature required for registration. Open to students at junior level and above.

PTDW 4001
Advanced Painting Studio
This studio explores specific problems in each student’s area of concentration and interest. Students are expected to command familiarity with problems of color, composition, and basic materials. Students must have the signatures of two of the three instructors to register for this course. Students must register for three sections: either 001, 002, and 003; or 004, 005, and 006. Prerequisite: PTDW 3001.

PTDW 4010
Advanced Painting Institute
Students grapple with specific painting problems and interests in this four-week summer intensive course. During the first three days of the week, students focus on working in the studio. Faculty meet with students individually and conduct rigorous group critiques. Visits to the museum’s collections will be scheduled regularly. Visiting artists are available to meet with the students and discuss the student’s work, as well as their own. The fourth day of the week is spent exploring the arts in Chicago: visiting local working artists’ studios and Chicago galleries and museums. Discussion includes how artists apply for exhibition, as well as how the exhibitions are curated (the selection process), assembled, and prepared.

PTDW 4030
Advanced Figure Painting
This special studio is available to junior and senior students experienced in working with the figure. Choice of medium will be open. The course is scheduled for three consecutive days, with a different instructor each day. Students must register for two of the three days. The student will be confronted with complicated spatial setups and two models over relatively long periods of time (four to five weeks). Prerequisite: PTDW 3030.
Topics: Narrative; Figures of Figuration
and Perceptual

PTDW 4032
Advanced Figure Drawing
This course emphasizes long poses for a serious, thorough investigation of the figure and traditions of figure drawing. Prerequisites: two semesters of PTDW 2030.

PTDW 4040
Advanced Studio Drawing
An advanced investigation of drawing as an organizing tool for thought and personal image exploration. Students work with both assigned and independently-conceived problems.

PTDW 4070
Framing the Present/Framing What Is
The idea of “reality” presents itself with regularity in pictorial theory. Beginning with the “last painting” in Ad Reinhardt’s studio in the early 1960s, this class will follow painting’s pictorial development as it moved away from high Modernism’s involvement with flattening illusion through its engagement with the reality of what is. This undergraduate studio seminar will investigate in real terms the relationship between display and its underlying ideological, political and aesthetic norms and the actual installation of students work. Readings and artist interviews include Ad Reinhardt, Robert Irwin, Daniel Buren, On Kawara, Allan McCollum, Felix Gonzalex-Torres, Sherrie Levine, Diana Thater and Remy Zaugg.