PCC/ CCOG / ART

Course Content and Outcome Guide for ART 197I

Date:
11-SEP-2012
Posted by:
Curriculum Office
Course Number:
ART 197I
Course Title:
SAI: Ancient Bronze Casting
Credit Hours:
2
Lecture hours:
0
Lecture/Lab hours:
40
Lab hours:
0
Special Fee:
$12

Course Description

Delve into a fast-paced intro to the ancient art and process of Bronze Casting. From hand-carved original to final polish, the class will include modeling with wax, a 24 hr wax burnout, melting & pouring bronze, chasing, and patinas. 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:

  • Continue to use and to build on newly-acquired skills in the processes of ancient bronze casting
  • Apply new cognitive and historical modes to further personal, creative, endeavors
  • Further employ multiple production techniques in subsequent art endeavors

 

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
  • Make creative, appropriately crafted, challenging sculptural solutions to given provocations using novice casting skills
  • Take part in a 24 hour wax burnout
  • Establish self-critiquing skills so as to develop autonomous expression through sculpture while recognizing the standards and definitions already established by both contemporary and historical works of art from different cultures
 

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
  • Develop conceptual ideas through the practice of creative research and preparatory studies (e.g. sketchbooks, journals, maquettes, models, writing assignments, presentations, technical practice tests, etc.).
  • Make creative, appropriately crafted, challenging sculptural solutions to given provocations using ancient bronze casting techniques

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
  • The influence of art on relations with other cultures
Art and Artists
  • The impulse to make art
  • The Gestalt of art
  • The role of the artist in society
  • Biography