Class information
ART181A Painting I
- CRN: 23536
- Credits: 4
- Locations, days, times, and instructors:
- Sylvania CT 231, TuThTuesday and Thursday, from 2 to 4:50pm
From April 2 through June 13, 2024, Rochelle K Nielsen
- Sylvania CT 231, TuThTuesday and Thursday, from 2 to 4:50pm
Class materials
Textbooks
No textbooks required
Details about this class
Course Description
Explores basic studio painting techniques, materials, and concepts. Develops and encourages creative problem solving and personal expression. Introduces basic skills and vocabulary to engage with art through critiques, which address formal, conceptual, and cultural issues. Recommended: ART 115 or ART 116 or ART 131. Audit available.
Addendum to Course Description
The course includes demonstrations, lectures, images, videos and possible field trips. Homework assignments will explore the concepts and processes introduced in class through painting and writing activities.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Solve aesthetic and material problems through appropriate use of tools, processes, and techniques of painting.
- Communicate using basic art vocabulary in order to engage in critical conversations about the aesthetics, and social and historical contexts of paintings.
- Express personal experience through making paintings.
- Assess the value and quality of artwork in relation to the practices and standards of painting.
Technology
No technology required.
No show policy
Your instructor can mark you as a "no show" if you do not participate in your class during the first week. This will remove you from the class.
Students with disabilities
Students with disabilities should notify their instructor if accommodations are needed to take this class. For information about technologies that help people with disabilities taking Online based classes please visit the Disability Services website.