ART 284 - Painting IV

3 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s): ART 283

Course Description: Encourages students in developing critical as well as creative thinking through the exploration of materials, processes, concepts, and imagery; through exposure to a wide range of ideas, students develop their own sense of direction. Introduces advanced principles, methods and processes of painting through mini lectures, research, studio work and critique. Concepts based on contemporary ideas and images relating to painting are explored. Credits taken may be applied to the Oregon Transfer Degree, the Associate of General Studies degree, toward fulfilling the humanities requirement or elective requirement, or may be taken to pursue a personal educational track, whether towards a career in art, or for aesthetic and psychological enrichment.

Course Level: Lower Division Collegiate

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Apply advanced concepts and techniques, including color technique, representational accuracy and imagination in a series of paintings. (ILO: Communication)
CLO#2: Develop sophisticated compositional strategies.
CLO#3: Realize personal artistic style in a body of work through a process of conceptualization, research, and sketches.