aCademiC Catalog 2013-2014 - Lorenzo de Medici

with other approaches and wish to improve their technical skills
through class exercises. Students will work on independent
projects focusing on subject matter from observation and
reference to personal issues. The course is designed to introduce
students to more sophisticated and critical approaches to
their chosen areas of focus in the context of contemporary
sculpture. Project work will revolve around given themes, and
students will be taken through a process of how to develop
their projects. The course covers work in clay, wire and plaster,
casting from plaster and flexible molds in gesso, wax and paper.
Structured exercises to assist the students will be given so that
they will be able to better interpret relevant concepts.
Prerequisites: SCU 160 Introductory Sculpture, or equivalent
Ceramics: Majolica and Porcelain
SCU 290 F
Cr: 3; Contact hrs: 90
When porcelain pottery arrived from China to Italy in the
sixteenth century, artists tried to discover the secret of this
beautiful white material, but it was not possible to do so because
Italian lands were naturally poor in kaolin, the main compound
in porcelain clay. As a result Italians developed competing
products to meet the demand of a market enchanted with white
and blue Ming porcelain: firstly a blue and white majolica, and
then a clay mixture that is not real porcelain. This mixture was
created in a ceramic studio in Boboli Gardens in Florence and is
known as “Porcellana Medicea”. In this practical and theoretical
course students explore majolica and porcelain, two almost
opposite materials: their quality of expression, their value, their
technical aspects, their differences in historical context and
their potential as creative media. Students undertake written
work as well as practical projects using majolica and porcelain,
and there will be visits to some of the exceptional centres of
ceramic collecting and production in Florence and beyond.
Prerequisites: SCU 130 Ceramics or SCU 160 Introductory
Sculpture, or equivalent
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Advanced Sculpture
SCU 360 F
Cr: 3; Contact hrs: 90
This course is designed for students who have covered the
foundations and intermediate levels of figurative and object
sculpture or who have worked with other approaches and
wish to improve their technical skills through class exercises.
The course will continue the process of a more sophisticated
and critical approach to one’s chosen conceptual and personal
issues of focus in the context of contemporary sculpture.
Project work will revolve around given themes, and students
will be taken through a process of how to develop these
themes into a personal three-dimensional expressive language.
The emphasis will be on work that demonstrates a high level
of both technical and conceptual considerations. The course
covers work in clay, wire and plaster, casting from plaster and
flexible molds in gesso, wax and paper.
Prerequisites: SCU 260 Intermediate Sculpture, or equivalent
Advanced Sculpture (Summer only)
SCU 361 F
Cr: 3; Contact hrs: 60
This course is designed for students who have covered the
foundations and intermediate levels of figurative and object
sculpture or who have worked with other approaches and
wish to improve their technical skills through class exercises.
The course will continue the process of a more sophisticated
and critical approach to one’s chosen conceptual and personal
issues of focus in the context of contemporary sculpture.
Project work will revolve around given themes, and students
will be taken through a process of how to develop these
themes into a personal three-dimensional expressive language.
The emphasis will be on work that demonstrates a high level
of both technical and conceptual considerations. The course
covers work in clay, wire and plaster, casting from plaster and
flexible molds in gesso, wax and paper.
Prerequisites: SCU 260 Intermediate Sculpture, or equivalent
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