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ARTS 832 - Advanced Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Complex compositional problems of image making will bex Complex compositional problems of image making will be addr
addressed. Students will explore a broad range of
solutions to pictorial problems to reinforce and expand
individual concepts of image and technique. Along with
structured in-class work, graduate students will be
required to develop sustained out of class projects in
consultation with the instructor. May be repeated for a
total of 8 credits. Prereq: permission.
ARTS 846 - Advanced Painting
Credits:
4.00
Development and refinement of technical skills leading to
more advanced conceptual problems will be emphasized.
Along with structured in-class work, graduate students will
be required to develop sustained out of class projects in
consultation with the instructor. May be repeated for a
total of 8 credits. Prereq: permission.
ARTS #884 - Dutch Genre Painting
Credits:
4.00
An intensive study of Dutch genre painting in the 17th
century, focusing especially on the art of Vermeer and his
contemporaries in the third quarter of the century. In
addition to the individual artists and their works,
attention will be paid to aspects of their social
background such as the emergence of privacy and the nuclear
family, to parallels with the early novel, and to general
themes governing realism as an artistic mode. Prereq: one
400- or 500 level art history course and instructor's
permission. (Also offered as ARTS 784).
ARTS 897 - Seminar in Art History
Credits:
4.00
Topics and prerequisites to be announced before
preregistration. May be repeated with permission
instructor up to a maximum of 12 credits. (Also offered as
ARTS 799.)
ARTS 932 - Graduate Drawing
Credits:
6.00
Structured to emphasize developing skills and to explore
techniques to create invented and observed space. Drawing
will be considered as an inventive tool to extend the
students' repetoire of ideas. May be repeated for a total
of 12 credits. Prereq: advanced drawing; permission.
ARTS 996 - Independent Study in the Visual Arts
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
C01 - Drawing; D01 - Painting; E01 - Printmaking; I01 -
Painting in Italy; L01 - Art History. An opportunity for
independent study in the above listed disciplines. The
content and structure of the course will be developed
through collaboration of the graduate student and the
supervising faculty member. May be repeated for a total of
18 credits in any one area. Prereq: undergraduate degree in
studio art and permission.
ARTS 997 - Graduate Painting Thesis
Credits:
10.00
The Graduate Painting Thesis is the culmination of the MFA
student's graduate work in painting. The course requires:
1) continued work in the studio under supervision of
graduate faculty; 2) a more formal midterm critique with
graduate faculty (oral summarization of thesis work); 3)
extensive work with The Art Gallery in preparation for the
MFA Thesis Exhibition (including hanging the exhibition);
4) the thesis exhibition itself; and 5) an oral
presentation to the faculty during the thesis exhibition.
ARTS 998 - Graduate Painting Seminar
Credits:
6.00
Students will meet on a weekly basis with the instructor
focusing on and expanding their awareness of the artist's
place in the world at the end of the 20th century.
Readings, presentations, gallery and museum visits,
discussions, and critiques will be required. Prereq:
acceptance to MFA program.