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ART 402 Advanced Painting

This is an advanced level painting course, which includes the further development of form and paint manipulation with an emphasis on developing a personal and contemporary aesthetic. Students are expected to demonstrate technical and formal proficiencies. In addition to specific painting skills students will solve problems that are formally and conceptually more complex than those experienced in previous painting classes. Required reading and writing assignments will support and clarify personal directions and points of view.

student work

Syllabus

Artist List

Sketchbook samples 

Link to sample sketchbooks

Formal Proposal Form

MoMA Site
MET site

Week 1

Value Study

Samples for Value

In class exercise

Value to Color

Go to Intermediate painting class website Week 1 & 2 for Color to Value sites.

See Intermediate Painting site for examples for sketchbook. 


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Drawings at Lehmann Maupin read

​Learn more about Do Ho Suh-- click here for Art 21.

Week 2

Concept Painting Instructions

Formal Proposal Form--due at mid-term

Yontz Week 2 Samples

Value Analysis Assignment

Value Examples for assignment


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Week 3

Come to class with process including:
Sketches
Artists to use
Evidence of outside research
Concepts, including subject matter, images, etc.
Ideas as to scale and installation

Be ready to begin concept series.

Week 4-6

Continue concept series. Finish Value study.
Develop plan for second half of the semester.

 

Prepare for Mid-term

Finish Value Study
Have as much of the first concept series finished as possible.

Complete Self-evaluation form for concept painting.
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Have proposal form filled out in preparation for self-directed concept paintings.

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Alexis Rockman-- top

Nature:Documents of Contemporary Art
​Review of book--below

Information for Students

Please use links to review readings and artists for your topic. In all cases, read about the artist's ideas. Don't just look at the work. 


Over & Under/Water/Pollution/Mystery--
Readings:
Protecting the Ocean, National Geographic
​Ocean Facts, National Resources Defense League
Nature: Documents of Contemporary Art

Artists:
Vija Celmins
Robert Longo--Water
Alexis Rockman
Mel Chin-- Revival Field
​Roland Flexner
​Russell Crotty
Ellen Gallagher-- Watery Ecstastic Series
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Please use links to review readings and artists for your topic. In all cases, read about the artist's ideas. Don't just look at the work.

Spirituality/Calligraphy/Unity
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Readings:
Relationship between Spirituality and Art
ART 21 videos_ on art and spirituality
Formal issues of Unity & Variety

​Artists:
Cy Twombly-- 
​Shahzia Sikander
Wang Dongling-- google for sure
Li Huasheng
Joseph Pentheroudakis
​Sol LeWitt-- Scribbles
Anslem Kiefer
Leslie Dill
Eva Hesse
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Please use links to review readings and artists for your topic. In all cases, read about the artist's ideas. Don't just look at the work.

Empathy/Difference/Bodies-
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Readings:
Regarding the Pain of Others, Sontag
The Brain's Empathy Gap
​Touching Feeling, Sedgwick
MOMA--Identity--read all Three on Left side: The Body in Art, Constructing Gender and Intersecting Identities. Notice the artists.

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​Artists:
Alberto Giacometti--drawings and paintings
​Dryden Goodwin--Linear Video on Vimeo
Claude Heath--
Martin Wilner
Alicia Henry
​Zhi Lin
Kerry James Marshall--ART 21

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week 7-13

Work on series.
Complete Painting Analysis 
      First Due March 28
      Second Due April 21

Final Week

Final Self-Analysis
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