ILLUS-3236

SPEAK, MEMORY: PAINTING AS MEMOIR

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Course Level: Junior, Senior, 5th Year

3 CREDITS

The visual journal is an invaluable tool in a young artist’s development. Based on memory, dreams, fantasy, travel, and intuitive stirrings, each student’s journal will be the source of a group of paintings executed in a variety of mediums such as oil, acrylic and watercolor. In addition to their individual journals, students may create images/paintings based on pertinent film, memoirs, essays, or other reflective texts by well-known and lesser-known authors.

Suggested references may include: Christopher Isherwood’s I Am A Camera; Arthur Koestler, Darkness At Noon; Allen Ginsberg, Howl; Jack Kerouac, On The Road; Elie Weisel, Night; Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory; Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now; Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar; William Styron, Darkness, Visible: A Memoir of Madness; Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz.

Capacity: 15

Registration Restriction: Major elective; restricted to Illustration juniors and seniors; open to non-majors pending seat availability and permission of instructor. 

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