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Spring 2009 Series Descriptions "Redefining the Avant Garde"
Painting Itself The painting series is structured with both readings and discussion on painting from critics, historians and artists and in studio practice. Individual goals and involvements will be set according to particular concentration and experience, which will include the defined pursuit of a series of related paintings and a masterwork. Thoughts regarding the "new" and its accompanying tension with tradition will be considered in relation to the continuum of painting. Technical considerations including application of color theory will be incorporated as appropriate to the series as a whole and/or individuals and will be structured. In addition, students in the last semester of the two-year program will concentrate on a final thesis comprised of a carefully written expository essay and a body of work representing their understanding and practice of painting.
Monday Evening Series: Form, Expression & Idiom This series is open to Associate Study students and optional for full time students. In it issues related to form, individual expression and the idiosyncratic or idiomatic response to formal means in relation to the artist, subject and artwork will be explored. Specific formal principles will be understood through hands-on exercises and will be related to each student's involvement and medium. The series will include slide shows, readings, discussion, specific assignments and critique. Spatial concepts in drawing will be integral to the series and resonate with the other disciplines being pursued.
Thursday Morning Seminar This series will focus on the semester's program-wide theme, "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. The primary intent for the series will be to redefine an understanding of the Avant Garde in current times and to establish an individual relationship by each student to the concepts intrinsic to the concept of the Avant Garde. The opposition of and tensions between the concepts of assimilation and differentiation will form the context for this investigation. Through these dual concepts each student will have an opportunity to begin to come to terms with the purpose of his/her process as an artist.
Color Theory Color theory is considered a resource related to all media. Aspects of color theory will be cross-referenced and continued in the Monday painting series.
Photography Theory Seminar Photography Theory Seminar explores aspects of theory in photography from writings on or by photographers as well as more general visual theories from related media. This semester specific individual goals, objectives and time structure will be set with each student in consideration of his/her major concentration and aspiring. A specific body of work will be developed by each student in relation to those goals. Discussions of individual photographers, both historic and contemporary, will serve to help concentrate the student's intent. Students in the last semester of the two-year program will concentrate on a final thesis comprised of a carefully written expository essay and a series of photographs representing their understanding and practice of photography.
Advanced Drawing Thursday evening will be dedicated to Advanced Drawing (Beginning Drawing will be a component of the Monday evening series). Advanced Drawing will concentrate on perception, visual response and spatial concerns. Several media will be incorporated. Drawing as an autonomous discipline will also be stressed as will be the relation of drawing to the student's work as a whole. The creation of a cohesive series of drawings will be an objective of this series. Students in the last semester of the two-year program will concentrate on a final body of work representing their understanding and practice of drawing.
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