CRitical Content

Drawing

• Line: contour, cross-contour, hatching & crosshatching, line weight and quality

• Shading, Tone & Value

• Pattern - Shape, Line, Colors

• Observational & Abstract drawing

Painting

• acrylic and tempera painting

• oil painting: underpainting & grisaille, rub-out, layering, oil and wax mediums, glazing

• watercolor: wet, dry, & resist techniques

Theory and Technique

• Perspective

• Human Anatomy/Proportions

• Color Theory

3-Dimensional Art

• Sculpture - clay, plaster, papier-mâché, origami, cardboard

• Mixed Media Assemblage - found object, wood, metal, paper, foam, etc.

• Earthworks & Installation Art

Pictorial Space & Perspective

• • • different cultural approaches to depicting space and organizing the picture plane

    • the development of linear perspective in the Renaissance, to its dissolution in the Modern era

The Human Body

• • • from scientific/anatomical studies, to psychoanalytical, phenomenological, queer and feminist theories

Nature & the Landscape

• • • how artists have viewed themselves and their position in relation to the earth and the natural world

Abstract and Non-Objective Art

• • • how artists have attempted to depict the invisible, to represent the un-representable, and to separate art from a duty to mimic or recreate the world as it appears to the human eye

Mixed Media

• • • how artists have used found images and materials, photo-montage, assemblage, and other non-art materials in creating original artworks.

• vocabulary of art

• elements and principles of art and design

• cultural & historical interpretations of art and symbolism