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Sep 07, 2024
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ART 101 Understanding Art Lecture Hours: 4 Credits: 4
Introduces approaches to viewing, understanding, and discussing the visual arts. Covers formal, stylistic, content, and meaning-based analysis. Explores the relationship between the social and artistic construction of reality.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 ; or completion of WR 090 (or higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Describe historical and contemporary works of art, using formal elements, principles of composition, style, technique, and medium using art-specific vocabulary.
- Interpret content and meaning of historical and contemporary examples works of art, as revealed through subject, formal elements, and principles of composition, style and technique.
- Analyze historical and contemporary works of art, using art-specific vocabulary.
- Create, describe, and interpret a work of art.
- Identify and discuss the construction of power, privilege, and difference in historical and contemporary works of art.
Statewide General Education Outcomes
- Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life.
- Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.
Content Outline
- Formal Elements
- Value
- Line
- Form
- Color
- Texture
- Scale
- Principles of Design and Composition
- Format
- Figure and ground
- Balance
- Echoing shape and rhythm
- Construction of depth
- One-point, rising and intuitive perspectives
- Styles
- Idealism
- Naturalism
- Expressive distortion
- Abstraction
- Schematism
- Techniques
- Painterliness
- Plasticity
- Linearity
- Construction of Meaning in Art
- Subject
- Style
- Meaning and visual metaphor
- Art as constructor of power, privilege, and difference in art
- Trends in Modern Art
- Cubism, mechanomorphism, abstraction, and non-representational art
- Expressionism and primitivism
- Dada and anti-art
- Appropriation
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