20815242Painting 2
Course Information
Description
Explore conceptually challenging painting themes with emphasis on content development. Projects encourage students to respond to various themes by developing a unique image. Assignments allow for optional subjects, media, size, techniques appropriate to the number of works submitted. The goal of this course is to introduce students to various thematic challenges that will help in developing a personal style necessary for exploring independent projects.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Explore invented color
    Assessment Strategies
    by submitting a painting
    Criteria
    painting of a still life of white subjects develops into a composition of invented color relationships
    painting exhibits a manipulation of color properties (hue, value, intensity) to achieve a convincing depiction of light and shading effects
    painting incorporates color schemes to help organize compositional relationships
    you investigate the issues that enhance an idea (cropping, vantage point, arrangement, spatial context)
    pictorial composition is as important as the theme under investigation

  2. Explore optical mixing of color
    Assessment Strategies
    by creating a painting
    Criteria
    painting uses small patches of different colors
    painting colors combine to create a unified color effect when seen from a distance
    you explore how colors influence each other when blended or placed in close proximity
    you investigate the issues that enhance an idea (cropping, vantage point, arrangement, spatial context)
    pictorial composition is as important as the theme under investigation

  3. Investigate theme of reflections
    Assessment Strategies
    by submitting a painting
    Criteria
    painting depicts a convincing representation of reflected imagery
    painting may allude to the idea of reflections without actually depicting a relection
    painting may be realistic or abstract
    painting may use reflective materials (mylar, metal, mirrors)
    you investigate the issues that enhance an idea (cropping, vantage point, arrangement, spatial context)
    pictorial composition is as important as the theme under investigation

  4. Create a hybrid subject
    Assessment Strategies
    by submitting a painting
    Criteria
    painting depicts a unique subject that is created by combining different subjects
    painting includes a transition or resulting combination of different subjects that have been handled in a thoughtful and imaginative way
    you articulate the narrative, emotional, or visual effect of the invented creation in a critique
    you investigate the issues that enhance an idea (cropping, vantage point, arrangement, spatial context)
    pictorial composition is as important as the theme under investigation

  5. Investigate camouflaged figure/ground relationship
    Assessment Strategies
    by submitting a painting
    Criteria
    painting's focus is to conceal, hide or camouflage the relationship between a subject and the space or environment around it
    you employ a minimum of one of many possible strategies to undermine the recognition of a clear figure/ground relationship
    you investigate the issues that enhance an idea (cropping, vantage point, arrangement, spatial context)
    pictorial composition is as important as the theme under investigation

  6. Explore relationship between two opposite terms
    Assessment Strategies
    by submitting a painting
    Criteria
    painting demonstrates the student's interpretation of the undefined area that demonstrates a relationship between the opposite terms
    painting may be highly realistic and narrative or of invented non-objective imagery
    painting may depict opposites as entangled, combined, and/or segregated
    painting may show a transformation, metamorphosis, or a contrasting juxtaposition
    painting may be hybrid of two opposite concepts
    painting may include camouflage
    painting may include a diptych format that sets up a relationship of dependence, incompatibility attraction, and/or repulsion, etc.
    painting may include a triptych format that isolates the opposite terms on each end panel while the central panel could be used to depict the area where they meet