- Investigates key images in the history of art and architecture from the Ancient to the early Renaissance period (30,000 BCE - 1300) via slides, lectures, discussions, and readings. As an historical course, ART 111 not only considers the formal development of art but also presents each monument in the context of the society that created it. This course will focus on how a work of art reflects and is affected by the major cultural, political, and religious developments of its era.
This course provides a foundation in drawing the structure of forms in two dimensions, figure/ground relationships, line, volume, value, shape, and texture. Emphasis will be on still life, perspective, figure and architecture using pencil, charcoal and conte crayon. Assignments will develop the student’s understanding of organizational possibilities which will be accomplished in a studio environment using black-and-white media and some color-based materials. The course will begin developing ideas and solutions to visual problems and a visual eye in seeing form. Some self-expression and natural creativity that ya’ll have will be brought out in this course. There are no prerequisites for this course.
