Visual Language: On Images (12)
Course Code
ARTV 10100 12
Course Description
This course introduces basic formal elements and principles of art through a series of hands-on projects and critical discussions of perennial issues in the visual field, with a focus on 2-dimensional media.
Drawing, collage, and photography will be employed to study how form communicates content— historically and across disciplines. Informal writing and visual thinking strategies will be employed to increase our capacity for engaged observation and confidence when responding to artworks, no matter what medium.
Topics as varied as, but not limited to, illusion, analogy, metaphor, time and memory, nature and culture, abstraction, the role of the author, and universal systems will be illuminated through these primary investigations.
Course Criteria
This section (92) runs for three weeks and focuses on photography-related media and strategies, and will not require museum visits or fieldwork. This section is NOT eligible for the DOVA waitlist. If this course is full, please go here to request a spot on the course waitlist. ARTV 10100, 10200, 10300 meet the arts core requirement and may be taken in any order. This course fulfills the general education requirement in musical, visual and dramatic arts. Enrollment is limited to 16. This class will utilize photographic materials because of its predominance within contemporary culture. Most supplies will be provided but there may be an additional $20-50 per student in photographic printing costs if students do extra printing or choose to use outside materials.
Instructor(s)
Katherine Desjardins