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SPrinG 2012 Course Links:
FA386 Theory and Practice II: M/TH12:30-3:15p.m.
Readings:
Saltz: The Prince of the One Percent...
Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach...
The New Yorker, Temptations of the Fair, Peter Schjeldahl
Jerry Saltz at Art Basel Miami Beach
LINKS:
LAtimes Entertainment/Art Index
Chicago Tribune Ars/Entertaimentt Index
FA 272 Painting II: M/TH 8:30-11:15a.m.
Readings:
Changing Images of Pictorial Space, William Dunning
Chapter 19: Postmodernism and the Post-Cartesean Viewer
Chapert 20: Postmodernism: A New Language
FA 208 01Printmaking I: M/TH 3:30-6:15p.m.
Handouts:
Relief Prints: Linoleum/Woodcut
Solarplate: Non-toxic Photo Intaglio Prints
Plates /Paper/Printmaking Supplies
FaLL 2011 Course LINKS:
FA471Painting V M/TH 12:30-3:15p.m.
Jerry Saltz Review: Venice Bienniale
Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva
FA408 Printmaking V M/TH 3:30-6:15p.m.
STDA110 Observation and Illusion M/TH 8:30-11:15a.m.
Project 3: What Does Color Mean? DUE: Monday 12/05/11
Project 3 Description .doc PDF
Project 3: SELF Evaluation Form
Readings:
Chapter 2 Color and Composition, Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart
Color, It's all Relative, Dr.Carolyn Bloomer
Alexander Theroux “The Primary Colors: Three Essays”
Carolyn Bloomer “Principles of Visual Perception” Chapter 5 - Color: It’s All
Relative
Project 2: DUE Monday 10/24/11
Readings:
James Elkins, "How to Use Your Eyes", Chapter 13 - How to Look at Perspective Pictures
Note: James Elkins will be at Ringling in November as a visiting artist.
Carolyn Bloomer, "Principles of Visual Perception"
Chapter 1 excerpt - Mind and Meaning
Chapter 7 - Depth and Distance - The I as a Camera
Of these two, I favor Chapter 7, but I thought the intro had some useful framework for discussion.
The entire Omnibus documentary on Hockney's Secret Knowledge is available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBNrgCaoyW8
STDA Project 1: DUE: Monday 9/19/11
READINGS:
GROUP 1
GROUP 2
GROUP 3
SPrinG 2011 Course LINKS: SYLLABI
CS122 05 Contextual Figure: M/TH 12:30-3:15p.m.
CS122 06 Contextual Figure: M/W 3:30-6:15 p.m.
CS122 PORTFOLIO EVALUATION FORM
FA 208 01Printmaking I: M/TH 8:30-11:15a.m.
FA 208 PORTFOLIO EVALUATION FORM
Handouts:
Relief Prints: Linoleum/Woodcut
Solarplate: Non-toxic Photo Intaglio Prints
Plates /Paper/Printmaking Supplies
Dan Weldon: Non Toxic Printmaking/Solarplate
FAll 2010 Course LiNKS:
FA 285 Theory and Practice I: M/W 3:30-6:15p.m., Bayou Studios, Trustee Studio 2
CS 125 Interpretive Figure Drawing: M/TH 12:30-3:15p.m., ACTR 511
CS 125 Portfolio Evaluation Form
CS103 Drawing and Observation: M/TH 8:30-11:15a.m., ACTR 521
Drawing Problem 1: DUE TH 9/9/10
Drawing Problem 2: DUE M 9/27/10
Drawing Problem 3: DUE: TH10/21/10
Drawing Problem 4: DUE: TH 11/18/10
Drawing Problem 5: DUE: TH12/02/10
Visual Problem Evaluation Form
Spring 2010 Course LINKS:
Visual PROBLEM 2: Due: FRIDAY 01/19/10
Visual Problem 3: Due FRIDAY 03/05/10
VISUAL Problem 4: Due FRIDAY 04/09/10
CS 102/10 Vocabulary List and Supply List
Visual Problem Evaluation Form
Links:
The Drawing Center: NYC : http://www.drawingcenter.org/
Moma: http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/drawings
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC : http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/drawings_and_prints
The Art Insitute of Chicago, IL: Exhibition: http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/italiandrawings
AIC: Print Study Room: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/prints
The Getty, CA: Exhibition Drawing the Classical Figure: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/classical_figure/
Article: Drawing Conclusions: http://www.modernedition.com/art-articles/contemporary-drawing/contemporary-drawing.html
The Drawing Room. London, UK: http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/intro.htm
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Spring 2009 Courses
FA208 Printmaking I
Handouts:
CS122 Contextual Figure
CS104B Color and Image
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Resources: click the links
Safe Artist's Materials:
National Library of Medicine: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/arthazards.html
Book Review: The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide, Monona Rossol
Water-based Inks and Pigments: Akua
Book Review: The Contemporary Printmaker by Keith Howard
Text: The Artist's Handbook, 5th ed.by Ralph Mayer
Text: Artist Beware, Dr. Michael McCann
