Visual Language: On Images (22)

This section (22) runs for three weeks and focuses on painting and drawing. 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. Cultural field trips and art-viewing excursions on campus and around the broader city of Chicago will inform studio work and critical discourse around two-dimensional art. Key principles and practices of art and design will be presented as models, as will methods and materials of the studio. This will occur through a combination of slide lectures and in-person encounters with artwork at museums, galleries, artists’ studios and public spaces. Principles will be put into practice in the studio, studying visual form as a means for communication, self-expression and cultural critique. Topics as varied as illusion, analogy, metaphor, memory, nature and culture, abstraction, the role of the author, and structural systems will be illuminated through studio projects. Visits to museums and other city-wide outings will be required, as are participation in studio exercises, presentation of creative work and group discussions. This course fulfills the general education requirement in musical, visual and dramatic arts. Enrollment is limited to 16.