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SYLLABUS
Course: Painting: Special Problems
Numbers: ART 493 1-9CR
ART 793 1-9CR
Offered: Fall Semester, 2001; TBA
Instructor: Dennis Navrat, Professor of Art
Email: dnavrat@usd.edu
Office: CFA 208A; Telephone: 605-677-5732
Office Hours by appointment
DESCRIPTION
A special problems in painting course emphasizing a variety of painting media in
combination with mixed media artmaking processes and the exploration of contemporary
compositional concepts. Prerequisite: Instructor signature required.
PURPOSE
The course is intended for advanced painting students at either the undergraduate or graduate levels. It allows students the opportunity to practice and explore both traditional and contemporary methods and materials utilized in either transparent or opaque watercolor, and to combine painting methods with other art mediums. The intent is for students to incorporate water-based painting media with methods, skills, and preferences they already have in other art media. Each student will choose an individual mixed media approach and apply the techniques to challenging compositional concepts.
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
The course involves all aspects of the creation of mixed media works emphasizing water-based painting media applied to challenging compositional concepts. Students will complete personal artworks based upon a common assignment. Freedom of expression based upon personal interests will be stressed by individual interpretation of a variety of conceptual issues.
Assignments will be made in order to explore various techniques and processes and to challenge understanding. At the completion of each assignment, a group critique will be held to evaluate success, discuss difficulties, and offer suggestions for technical improvement and/or the evolution of ideas. The intent of the course sequence is to increase understanding of complex compositional concepts as applied to personal art issues, fostering a respect for the handling of mixed media and an evolution of creative thought along the way.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The course will stress an imaginative approach to the development of individual technical and conceptual skills.
READING AND RESEARCH
Library research, World Wide Web search, and reading will relate to a student’s development of personal imagery and compositional complexity. The intent of research will be to find a variety of contemporary examples of artists and artworks newly in print, or not yet represented in magazines or books.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND REQUIREMENTS
Students should expect slide lectures, demonstrations, discussions, individual reading, library and W.W.W. research, daily painting practice and assignments, deadlines, and critiques.
Students are required to attend class sessions and successfully complete all class assignments.
MEASURES OF ACHIEVEMENT
Each mixed media painting project assignment will be scored by various criteria including compositional quality (design unity/gestalt), imagination/creativity, expressive/aesthetic quality, and technical quality (appropriate craft/execution). Attendance, effort, and interest (based upon personal research and participation in discussions/critiques) are expected of above-average students. All of the above will be determinants of the final course grade.
ART 493 / ART 793 PAINTING: WATERCOLOR CONCEPTS
Name Enrolled in: Art 493 Art 793
STUDENT PREFERENCE AND PLANNING SURVEY
WATER MEDIA. I plan to work with...
Transparent watercolors
Opaque watercolors / gouache / designer colors
Acrylics
Other (name it)...
COMPOSITIONAL CONCEPTS. I am especially interested in gaining experience with...
SUBJECT MATTER. I have the most experience with, or prefer working with...
RESEARCH. Describe your experience and skill level with computers...