WEEK • TOPIC • READINGS • VIEWING ASSIGNMENTS
1. JAN. 30 - FEB. 1
INTRODUCTION
Discuss: Objectives, Subject Overview
Read: Stone Age Definition - @ CCB: reading assignments
Film Clips:
• Samsara - (Ron Fricke - 2012)
2. FEB. 06 - 08
WHAT IS VISUAL LITERACY?
KeyNote: The Language of art (1) - Formal Elements
Discuss • Three Age System, Visual Literacy, Samsara
Read: Art - a world history; Pre & Early history, pgs. 13 - 37
Viewing Assignment: Ceremony and Society -
[Art Through Time - Section 4, 26:45 m.]
3. FEB. 13 - 15
A HUMAN PHENOMENON
KeyNote: Functions of Art
Discuss: Artists Roles Throughout History
Read: Art Basics, pgs. 1- 32
College Closed - (President’s Day) - FEB. 20 - MONDAY
4. FEB. 22 (Wed)
DESCRIBING ART
KeyNote: The Language of art - Formal Elements
Discuss: Form | Materials | Evolution of Style
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5. FEB. 27 - MAR. 1
Media Project - (1): Gesture Line, Cross Hatch, Contour Lines
Medium: Graphite, Vine Charcoal, Compressed Charcoal
Media Project - (2): Value Scale, Positive-Negative Shape, Composition
Medium: India Ink & Brush
Read: Renaissance, Dawn of a new age - Art a world history; pgs:116 - 161
6. MAR. 06 - 08
TRADITIONAL MEDIA
(QUIZ on Renaissance - Dawn of a new age) - MONDAY, March 6th
KeyNote: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Linear Perspective, Tessellations
Discuss: Medieval Guilds, Linear Perspective, History of Painting
Read: tba
7. MAR. 13 - 15
THE LANGUAGE COLOR
KeyNote: Color modes during the Italian Renaissance, Sir Isaac Newton,
Wolfgang Goethe, Albert H. Munsell, Impressionism, Post Impressionism
Discuss: The Relativity of Color Perception
Read: Art in the 20th century, before 1945 - Art a world history: pgs. 412 - 461
8. MAR. 20 - 22
MID TERM: WEDNESDAY, MARCH - 22
Film Clips:
• Why Beauty Matters (Roger Scruton, 2009)
SPRING BREAK: MARCH 25 - 31
9. APR. 03 - 05
NON-TRADITIONAL MEDIA
KeyNote: Modernism & the Avant Garde
Discuss: Modern Art | Post-Modern Strategies
Read: Lick & Lather - Interview with artist Janine Antoni -
@ CCB: reading assignments
10. APR. 10 - 12
DERIVING MEANING FROM ART (1)
KeyNote: Sculpture & Contemporary Art
Discuss: Lick and Lather - Interview with artist Janine Antoni
Read: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” +
“On The Manner of Addressing Clouds” (Thomas McEvilly)
@ CCB: reading assignments
11. APR. 17 - 19
DERIVING MEANING FROM ART (2)
KeyNote: Performance art, Ephemeral objects, Correspondence art
Discuss: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a blackbird” (Thomas McEvilly) +
“On The Manner of Addressing Clouds” (Thomas McEvily)
Conceptual art, “Happenings”, Performance art, Relational Aesthetics
Read: “Barthes and Semiotics” - (in class handout)
12. APR. 24 - 26
EXHIBITION REPORT Due - April 26th
EXHIBITION REPORT Due - April 26th
STRUCTURALIST INFLUENCE
KeyNote: Semiotics, Cultural Marxism
Discuss: Barthes and Semiotics, Postmodern Trends, Cultural Narratives,
Neo Conservative Criticism, Culture wars
Read: Myth Today, Roland Barthes - (in class handout)
13. MAY. 01 - 03
ARCHITECTURE SPEAKS
KeyNote: Form Follows Function
Discuss: Ideology & Formalism
Read: Art after 1945 - Art a world history (pgs. 462 - 501)
14. MAY. 01 - 03
Media Project - (3): Combining Forms, Mix Media, Telling Stories
Medium: Mix Media, Drawing, Ink Wash, Collage
15. MAY. 08 - 10
THE ROLE OF THE MUSEUM
KeyNote: Institutional Critique
Discuss: Ideology & Formalism
Read: tba
16. MAY. 15 - 17
OPEN
17. MAY. 22 - 24
FINAL EXAM
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24th - 11:15 am - 1:15 pm
This exam will focus on specific works of art,
the language of materials and media, and
the ideas which have inspired form and style trends,
as well as the content associated with works of art.
