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The curriculum includes painting, photography, mixed media and critical studies. Each student will study and practice his or her primary medium with the option to pursue additional subjects. For instance, several painting students regularly participate in the photography program, while photographers at times join drawing sessions.
Most students will declare a concentration in painting, photography or mixed media. Drawing is a continuing activity over the entire course of instruction. Critical studies, including involvements with art history, are included as well as regularly scheduled presentations and seminars.
Instructors are present in the studios for demonstrations, critique and discussion several times each week. At other times students work independently from models and set ups as well as on assignments defined by the instructors.
- Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Series
Descriptions - "Truth & Beauty"
The resonance between concepts of truth and beauty will be explored
throughout the Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 semesters. Issues related to
nature, traditional beauty, the sublime, horror, expression and
challenges to the concept of Truth in favor of multiple truths will be
explored. Rather than being a chronological history of aesthetics,
multiple aspects of aesthetics with particular relevance to the
contemporary visual artist will be encountered along with identifying
significant positions in aesthetics over history.
- Spring 2009 Series
Descriptions - "Redefining the Avant Garde"
The early and neo-avant-garde as a component of modernism and as a force
in 20th-Century art will be considered. The concept of the autonomous
artwork, aesthetics and the interaction of the spectator with the
artwork will be traced. The dilemma presented by the Avant Garde's
evisceration under postmodernism as a result of widespread acceptance,
market endorsement by the art world, and investment by the financial
establishment will be explored.
- Fall 2008 Series
Descriptions - "Spatial Concepts & the Visual Artist"
An exploration of the visual artist's involvement with spatial concepts.
Semester readings will follow on the considerations of the last two
semesters which included Jed Perl's Laissez Faire Aesthetics, Charles
Taylor and Lionel Trilling's essays related to ethics and authenticity,
Paul Tillich's A Prefatory Note to New Images of Man, Wallace Stevens's
essay related to the imagination, William Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations
of Immortality, Proust's observations on intellect and the senses,
Gertrude Stein's Pictures and Krishnamurti's thoughts on creativity.
Readings and discussion will explore the internal as well as external
spaces the artist must encounter, engage, bridge and unify.
- Spring 2008 Series
Descriptions - "Sense, Intellect and the Imagination"
The semester will build on last semester's investigation of form and
metaphor and the artist's authentic involvement with his/her work and
the matter of the freestanding artwork.
- Fall
2007 Series Descriptions
- Spring 2007 Series
Descriptions
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