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ART 143 - Painting

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 6
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: General
Acrylic painting with emphasis on still life, landscape and individual composition.
Competencies
  1. Identify components of color in relationship to painting
    1. Recall features of the color wheel and color mixing
    2. Display an understanding of color harmony
    3. Demonstrate an ability to unify and vary color throughout composition.
    4. Examine principles of color theory
    5. Utilize visual effects of color schemes 
  2. Identify achromatic, monochromatic, complementary schemes, etc.
    1. Implement and categorize elements of art and principles of design
    2. Develop artistic vocabulary
    3. Show the importance balance, space and placement in composition
    4. Demonstrate active use of negative and positive space/shapes.
  3. Classify artistic categories
    1. Identify still life, portrait, landscape, genre, and historical compositions     and techniques, etc.
    2. Differentiate artistic styles including still life, landscape, etc. 
    3. Demonstrate an ability to paint representational forms via still-life compositions. 
  4. Implement and analyze a variety of painterly techniques in painted compositions. 
    1. Identify blending, dry-brushing, glazing, scumbling, gestural, impasto and sgraffito techniques, etc.
    2. Demonstrate effective use of blending, dry-brushing, glazing, scumbling,  gestural, impasto and sgraffito techniques, etc. 
    3. Distinguish between mediums including glazing, fluid, gel, retarder, etc. and their uses.
  5. Demonstrate and determine archival painting practices
    1. Distinguish between professional, student and hobby grade paint, supports, mediums and other painting materials.
    2. Execute quality craftsmanship.
    3. Determine painting compositions by properly signing work.
  6. Apply elements and principles of design as a way to critique and evaluate art
    1. Utilize proper artistic vocabulary in a group and individual critique atmosphere.
    2. Identify problematic areas in terms of composition and execution.
    3. Identify areas of the composition that achieve effective use of the medium.
    4. Synthesize what is said in critique to one’s own compositions.
    5. Utilize a variety of mediums as they apply to different techniques in a final product.
    6. Create compositions utilizing techniques and processes as a  culmination of art
    7. Critique both individual and group compositions.

Competencies Revised Date: 2019



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