Lower Division spring 2013
Art Practice 8 (4 units)
Introduction to Visual Thinking
One hour of lecture and six hours of studio per week. A first course in the language, processes, and media of visual art. Course work will be organized around weekly lectures and studio problems that will introduce students to the nature of art making and visual thinking.
Course requirements
Required.
Art Practice 12 (4 units)
The Language of Drawing
Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. A study of drawing as a tool for articulating what the eyes, hand, and mind discover and investigate when coordinated. Some sessions will be devoted to drawing the human figure.
Course requirements
Required.
Prerequisites
Art 8
Art Practice 13 (4 units)
The Language of Painting
Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. A concentrated investigation of what painting on a two-dimensional surface can elicit from what is both observed and felt. Illustrated talks will help familiarize you with issues that have concerned painters in the 20th century.
Art Practice 23AC (4 units)
Digital Media Foundation
Nine hours of studio per week. Server-based art course introduces principles of digital media creation from program to poetry through a combination of lectures, creative projects, and studio seminars. Topics: basic units of digital media, video, audio, and interactivity authoring, digital cinema, scripting, interactive art, web cam and net art. Final project is a web-based ambient/dramatic performance. All courses resources, projects, and reviews are web-based. Students must own networked computer.
Art Practice 14/1 14/2 (4 units)
Mixed Media
14/2 is Ceramics
Six hours of instructional studio and three hours of open studio per week. A study of how interactions between physical form and the space it generates can serve as a metaphor. Field trips and illustrated talks will help acquaint you with the ideas that sculptors have explored in the 20th century.