Fall 2013 Course Catalog - School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Fall 2013 Course Catalog
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Advanced Painting
Seminar:The Death of Painting
PAI 3103 01 (4 Credits)
Ron Rizzi
W
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
C113
Death of Painting: Explore the range of conventions used in representation and confront
directly, in paint, the anxiety painters have about contemporary challenges to the sense
of authenticity and validity of painting by new technologies and modes of representation.
We pay attention to the intersection of multiple modes of seeing and production due to the
impact of new technologies and how this alters the meaning and practice of painting from
imagination, film, video, photographic, and digital materials. We discuss history and theories
of representation and students develop a deeper understanding of the conventions they
use and the immense power and possibilities in the act of painting. We engage in extensive
readings in theory, including examinations of visual content, the spectacle, surveillance,
embodiment, the impact of digital technologies on photography as well as painting, and
the media languages of manipulation and control. Students acquire skills in the taking and
editing of photographic information with particular attention to the use of digital cameras. At
lunch we regularly and critically watch videos and films relevant to theoretical discussion.
Expect an intense semester of painting, discussions, critiques, and more painting. Students
are encouraged to bring ideas and resources including photographs, clippings, memories,
fantasies, enthusiasms, gripes, and anxieties. For intermediate and advanced students.
Observational Painting
PAI 4056 01 (4 Credits)
Patte Loper
W
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
B307
Our emphasis will be on basic skills in observational painting. Still life and the figure will
provide the subject matter for observing light, form, color and space. We will explore the
power and energy of composition and investigate the many painterly properties of oil paint.
Through slide presentations and visits to local museums and galleries, you will extend your
knowledge of historical and contemporary art based on observation.
Abstraction, Representation,
Criticality
PAI 4064 01 (4 Credits)
Angelina Gualdoni
W
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
B309
This course will introduce students to the practical and historical dialog between
representational and abstract modes of painting. A series of class projects lead students
through a conversation between these two modes of painting, with the goal of examining
their underlying assumptions, and complicating the categories of “representation” and
“abstraction”. It has often been said “all painting is abstract and in that the artist chooses
to emphasize some things over others”. Class projects distinguish between categories of
“non-objective”, abstraction in the sense of emphasis or distortion, as well as the quality of
abstraction inherent in conventional representation. Class concludes with several weeks
of independent student work. Emphasis will be production of paintings, and talking about
painting with informed intent. Students will leave this class able to understand and apply
the basic techniques of representational painting (modeling to create form, atmospheric and
linear perspective to create space, proportion and good composition), able to understand and
apply basic techniques of abstraction (composition, materials, color, brushstroke, layering,
transparency, abstraction from nature). Students should also be able to understand and
discuss the historical roles abstraction and representation have played in painting history
and how they apply to their own work.
Graduate Painting Studio
PAI 6100 01 (2 Credits)
Patte Loper
T
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
TBA
Graduate Painting Studio is designed to assist graduate students with a range of studio
issues related to painting. It is for both committed painters and those who are interested in
integrating painting discourse and discipline into their practices, regardless of media. This
class will hone and develop the skills of experienced painters and offer an introduction
to painting for students new to the discipline. Equal emphasis will be given to technical,
formal, and conceptual concerns. Focus in the class will be on individual studio work, with
a secondary emphasis on group critique and discussion and can be taken for either one or
two periods as needed.