In intermediate and advanced painting courses students continue to develop themes, techniques and concepts initiated in SA 121 Painting.
They work via contract with a workable plan that they create with their professor.
The course initiates student to grow and develop their work in a sophisticated manner on an independent level.
Beyond class critiques, discussion and lecture, intermediate and advanced students will meet with the instructor on four separate occasions, interspersed evenly throughout the semester, approximately every four weeks.
Objectives & Goals
• Students continue to develop their use of the elements and principles of design to create well-composed and well-executed paintings with a particular emphasis on the use of mixed color and value.
• Students develop technical skills using subject matter of personal interest and generally work from life, from their own photographs, and/or from imagination. While a range of techniques is explored, students often engage in a process of refinement based on what they did in earlier classes.
• Students develop an understanding of the ways in which their formal choices (composition, medium, scale, and paint handling, for example) elucidate their conceptual intent.
• As delineated in their individual learning contracts, students examine technical and expressive concerns using paint as their primary medium.
• Students further develop their knowledge of the history of painting through research and presentation on both historical and contemporary painters.