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DRAWING
Painting
Sculpture
Artistic Anatomy
Printmaking
Composition and Design,
History of Technique
Visual Culture
Electives,
Independent Study,
Professional Practices
Diploma Project
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Drawing
*Structural Drawing/Cast Drawing
D102
Drawing from casts is a quintessential practice within the academic curriculum.
The Academy's cast collection is a treasured repository of sculptural forms in Classical
and Renaissance periods. As examples of great sculptural art, the casts reward
close study with insights into how reality is abstracted, simplified, clarified and
translated into artistic form. In addition to careful study of the full-size casts, particular
attention is directed toward heads, the facial features, hands, feet and drapery.
Artistic theories of light and shade are presented. Both linear and dimensional depiction
of sculptural form are extensively explored.
3 credits
Cast Drawing
D102
This course provides an in-depth investigation into basic drawing issues facing all students. At the start, the course focuses on linear form description and studies objects to find their simple conceptual constructs. Then, these objects, plus organic forms and drapery, are used in still life as a vehicle for exploring varieties of organizational, figure-ground and compositional strategies. These strategies of organizing, rendering, and modeling form provide the basis for completing a drawing of an antique cast.
3 credits.
Perspective
D202
This course addresses theoretical and applied perspective in order to build spatial
environments within artworks. Artificial perspective is applied in both one-point
and two-pointmodes. Observational tactics of sighting are applied to on-site perspective
problems, including shadows and reflections. Additionally, historical theories
on perspective are addressed with a particular focus on methods of
representation and visual phenomena. Students are encouraged to examine issues
and methods of perspective in the context of their own pictorial concerns.
3 credits.
Figure Drawing I
D101
TThis course addresses the essential drawing principles related to representing the
figure in pictorial space, clearly situated on a foreshortened ground plane. Emphasis
is placed on gaining an in-depth understanding of the body's underlying
geometry and anatomical structure. A conceptual model of the figure that addresses
volume, movement, proportion, perspective and light is developed by correlating
students' drawing from observation with master drawings and diagrams
that present the body as a series of interlocking volumes governed by hierarchical
principles. To reinforce and enhance drawing comprehension and skills, students
work from casts in the Academy's collection. Instruction will stress the integration
of the lessons from cast drawing and life drawing.
3 credits.
Figure Drawing II
D201
This course emphasizes proportional accuracy, foreshortening, detail-mass relationships
and the use of light and shadow to draw the figure as a convincing volumetric
and spatial form. It integrates the conceptual geometricized model
presented in Figure Drawing I (D101) with the perceptual, naturalistic concerns
presented by the livemodel. Long poses allow the student to develop drawings that
reflect a more complete realization of the human form.
3 credits.
Figure Drawing III
D301
The emphasis of this course is on the composition of figures in pictorial space
from the imagination. Gesture studies, memory, imagination and class poses are
used as sources for figures, which are developed and/or modified for formal and expressive
reasons. The single figure is treated as the primary compositional element.
Methods of organizing volumetrically conceived bodies in space are explored by
studying the drawings of past masters. Students learn to modify existing lighting
conditions, as well as to invent imaginary light sources.
3 credits.
Figure Drawing IV
D401
This course offers students an opportunity to create large-scale figure drawings
from the model, working half, three-quarter and life size. The course will be devoted
to long-pose sessions using single and double model arrangements. Though
working directly from the life model is the primary concern of the course, students
will be encouraged to work creatively, incorporating memory work, invention, transformation,
narrative content and composition. Research projects will involve an exploration
of suitable drawing techniques and materials as well as a consideration
of those problems and challenges unique to large-scale work.
3 credits.
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