PCC/ CCOG / ART

Course Content and Outcome Guide for ART 197D

Date:
03-AUG-2012
Posted by:
Curriculum Office
Course Number:
ART 197D
Course Title:
SAI: Line, Letters, and Lumino
Credit Hours:
1
Lecture hours:
0
Lecture/Lab hours:
20
Lab hours:
0
Special Fee:
$6

Course Description

Investigate new applications and techniques for letter forms and personal reflection, where writing is paired with drawing materials and paint to create small-format, richly layered pieces luminous in their surfaces. Designed for all artists and lovers of letters and words; culminates with a hand-constructed portfolio of "small art." All levels welcome. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

An ongoing workshop designed especially for the PCC Summer Arts Institute

 

Intended Outcomes for the course

On completion of this course the student should be able to:

 

-Further deliberate about the relationships between writing and drawing

-Build on newly developed technical skills to further explore letter forms and their personal and practical applications; to go forward with considering the cultural implications of artistic forms

-Continue to view letter forms and drawing and drawing materials dynamically; that is, to appreciate simultaneously the uniqueness of particular materials and their relationship to a particular letter

 

Course Activities and Design

- Participate in studio work sessions, class discussions, and critiques

- Apply one's knowledge of material and techniques to understanding the art and artistic process

- Produce a hand-constructed portfolio of "small art."

 

 

 

Outcome Assessment Strategies

The student will:

· Participate in studio work sessions, class discussions, and critiques
· Examine aspects of the conceptual process such as experiencing, visualizing, symbolizing, playing, and imagining
· Discover an individual way of understanding the world and giving it form
· Discover various processes by which the artist sees nature and conceives ideas
· Analyze formally works of art and appreciate the interrelationship of its elements
· Create a hand-constructed portfolio of "small art.”
· Demonstrate novice skills in theory and practice
· Bring all human senses to the experience of art
· Apply one's knowledge of material and techniques to understanding the art and artistic process
· Express the relationship of art to society and culture to style
· Assess the ways in which an art object is affected by our own vantage point
· Use specific terminology to describe works of art

 

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Theoretical

 

- Theory and criticism of art

- Various interpretations of art
- Creativity and the impulse to make art

Stylistic and Interpretive

- Visual literacy
- Art media and artistic technique
- Seeing and knowing
- Formal elements of art

Social and Cultural

- Other peoples and their histories, values, and culture
- Art and the social fabric
- Relationship of culture and style
- Art and cultural transmission
- The influence of art on one’s own culture

Art and Artists

- The impulse to make art
- The Gestalt of art
- The role of the artist in society
- Biography