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| Foundation Painting: Fundamentals and Beyond / PAI 1041 1 |
Abby Zonies
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| T 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building B B307 |
9/2/2008 - 12/9/2008
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| PAI 1041 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 1041 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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This foundation painting course starts with the basics-setting up, paint application, color theory and its practical application to mixing color, use of media, stretching canvas, and using alternate supports-and advances to more challenging problems. This structured course is suitable for the novice and those with prior experience who are interested in an overview of painting and process to advance their work. Painting from life or imagination, realistically or abstractly, we will hone our skills to communicate ideas visually. Technical methods will range from monochromatic underpainting, glazing, and scumbling to wet-on-wet techniques. We will emphasize visual thinking and the need to fully utilize, coordinate, and relate all elements of painting, form, color, space, scale, proportion, and the joy of paint. You will be asked to maintain a sketchbook and to participate in class discussions and critiques. Materials will be discussed at length during the first class.
The Tuesday session is designed for students who wish to work with and learn from natural subject matter, such as still life, nude figure, and portrait. The emphasis will be on varied techniques and working methods, although some theory will be given. |
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| Foundation Painting: Fundamentals and Beyond / PAI 1041 2 |
Abby Zonies
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| R 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building B B307 |
9/4/2008 - 12/11/2008
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| PAI 1041 C2: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 1041 N2: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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This foundation painting course starts with the basics-setting up, paint application, color theory and its practical application to mixing color, use of media, stretching canvas, and using alternate supports-and advances to more challenging problems. This structured course is suitable for the novice and those with prior experience who are interested in an overview of painting and process to advance their work. Painting from life or imagination, realistically or abstractly, we will hone our skills to communicate ideas visually. Technical methods will range from monochromatic underpainting, glazing, and scumbling to wet-on-wet techniques. We will emphasize visual thinking and the need to fully utilize, coordinate, and relate all elements of painting, form, color, space, scale, proportion, and the joy of paint. You will be asked to maintain a sketchbook and to participate in class discussions and critiques. Materials will be discussed at length during the first class.
The Thursday session is designed for students who wish to further explore and enhance their foundation painting technique and skill. It is suited for novice students as well as for intermediate-level students who are seeking a structured review before pursuing work on their own. Emphasis will be on a visual response to color, form, and a feeling for paint. Technical matters will be reviewed. |
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| Foundation Painting: Fundamentals and Beyond / PAI 1041 3 |
Abby Zonies
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| TR 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building B B307 |
9/2/2008 - 12/11/2008
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| PAI 1041 C3: 4.00 Credits |
| $1790 |
| PAI 1041 N3: 0.00 Credits |
| $1370 |
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| This foundation painting course starts with the basics-setting up, paint application, color theory and its practical application to mixing color, use of media, stretching canvas, and using alternate supports-and advances to more challenging problems. This structured course is suitable for the novice and those with prior experience who are interested in an overview of painting and process to advance their work. Painting from life or imagination, realistically or abstractly, we will hone our skills to communicate ideas visually. Technical methods will range from monochromatic underpainting, glazing, and scumbling to wet-on-wet techniques. We will emphasize visual thinking and the need to fully utilize, coordinate, and relate all elements of painting, form, color, space, scale, proportion, and the joy of paint. You will be asked to maintain a sketchbook and to participate in class discussions and critiques. Materials will be discussed at length during the first class. |
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| Foundation Figure Painting / PAI 1210 1 |
Kelli Thompson
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| M 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building A A316 |
9/8/2008 - 12/15/2008
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| PAI 1210 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 1210 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| Foundation Figure Painting is designed for beginning to intermediate painters with some experience drawing the figure. The course will cover the fundamentals of figure painting through anatomical drawings and proportional studies, and then will provide an introduction to practical color theory as it applies to the figure through the production of value studies, complementary color mixing studies, and limited palette studies. We will conclude with the use of a full color palette. There will be a technical foundation from which you will be encouraged to experiment inside and outside of class; in-class time will be reserved for group critiques. You will complete the semester with a broad knowledge of how to create the formal structure of a figure painting using Old Master techniques combined with a contemporary understanding of figure painting's position in the art world today. |
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| The Portrait / PAI 2029 1 |
Lizi Brown
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| W 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building A A316 |
9/3/2008 - 12/10/2008
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| PAI 2029 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 2029 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| This course explored the field of portrait painting as it is practiced in our post-modern environment. With a central focus on expressive portraiture, we will present portrait painting as an integrated blend of traditional and contemporary practices. You will learn the fundamentals of proportion and how to create a formal structure through manipulation of tonal scale, composition, palette organization, color application strategies, and creative manipulation of materials. In addition to a studio component, each session will involve a discussion of artists who have made significant contributions to the field of portrait painting. Materials will include graphite, charcoal, pastel, ink, watercolor, acrylic, oil, paper, canvas, and board. |
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| The Expansion of Ideas in Paint / PAI 2030 1 |
Michael Wilson
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| R 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building A A312 |
9/4/2008 - 12/11/2008
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| PAI 2030 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 2030 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| This course offers a structured developmental introduction to the fundamentals of visual language through the use of oil and acrylic painting. Working from sketches, imagination, dream imagery, memory, and photographs, we will develop a freedom from the confines of direct observation. We also will cover problems related to composition, geometry, and forms in space during the process of expanding our knowledge of painting materials. This course will expose you to a multiplicity of painting forms and, through individual tutorial, will teach you techniques for developing a more personal language. Open to painters of all levels. |
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| Intermediate - Advanced Painting / PAI 2053 1 |
Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
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| M 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building B B307 |
9/8/2008 - 12/15/2008
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| PAI 2053 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 2053 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| This course is predicated upon a delight in, and a fascination with, painting. The course allows for an individualized, workshop-type situation and for group projects for students who need more structure. You will be free to pursue your own interests and modes of expression. Emphasis will be on developing your taste and sensibility as a painter so that you may achieve an increasingly sophisticated level of mastery. Models will be available for students who desire to work from the figure, although any mode of expression is acceptable. Individual and group critiques will be conducted throughout the semester. We will explore work by other artists and engage in dialogue about what it means to be a painter in the twenty-first century. Please note: Students are expected to have achieved some mastery of basic painting skills, which will be built upon throughout the semester. |
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| Old Master Methods for Today / PAI 2055 1 |
Hannah Barrett
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| W 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building A A310 |
9/3/2008 - 12/10/2008
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| PAI 2055 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 2055 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| Knowledge of painting methods from the past may help you to acquire a greater luminosity, richness of color, and lustrous paint surface in your own work. This course is a sampling of traditional techniques including egg tempera and oil underpainting and glazing. Small-scale exercises will introduce the materials and processes of these techniques in a quick and direct approach. You will paint one egg tempera and two oil studies. In order to learn the egg tempera manner, we will copy a fifteenth-century Italian master. To study glazing, we will underpaint and glaze a drapery. And to experience working from a colored ground, we will do a detail from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. Additionally, we will make our own painting panels with real gesso. |
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| Ink Painting & Chinese Calligraphy: A Contemporary Approach / PAI 4020 1 |
Sue Yang
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| R 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building A A308 |
09/04/2008 - 12/11/2008
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| PAI 4020 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 4020 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| Traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting have many applications in contemporary art practices. These disciplines connect varied art forms by building unique skills and by helping to develop focus, balance, composition, and mark-making vocabularies. Through demonstrations and individual instruction, you will learn basic Chinese calligraphy brushwork. You will study specific Chinese painting themes such as bamboo, orchid, plum blossom, or the landscape. You also will study the outstanding collection of Chinese calligraphy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and examine the works of Western artists such as Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Ross Bleckner, all of whom have employed elements of Chinese calligraphy in their work. Throughout the course, you will seek ways in which traditional Chinese painting may be seen and applied within the context of contemporary art practices. |
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| Realist Painting / PAI 4062 1 |
Christopher Chippendale
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| S 9:00AM - 12:15PM Building B B307 |
9/6/2008 - 12/13/2008
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| PAI 4062 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 4062 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| This multi-level course in realist painting requires no significant prior experience in this particular discipline, and invariably attracts new and returning students with a range of backgrounds and skill levels. We will focus on the means and language of direct painting techniques in the service of illusionism, as well as a broad and supple set of painting skills fundamental to observational painting (firm color mixing, synthetic ways of seeing and making, the material use of paint, and reading tone through color). Ancillary to our studio focus, we will examine modes and models of realist painting, past and present, from the standpoint of their painting language. There will be in-class observational painting from the model and the model in a larger environment (model sessions typically last three to four sessions). |
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| Realist Painting / PAI 4062 2 |
Christopher Chippendale
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| S 1:00PM - 4:15PM Building B B307 |
9/6/2008 - 12/13/2008
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| PAI 4062 C2: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 4062 N2: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| This multi-level course in realist painting requires no significant prior experience in this particular discipline, and invariably attracts new and returning students with a range of backgrounds and skill levels. We will focus on the means and language of direct painting techniques in the service of illusionism, as well as a broad and supple set of painting skills fundamental to observational painting (firm color mixing, synthetic ways of seeing and making, the material use of paint, and reading tone through color). Ancillary to our studio focus, we will examine modes and models of realist painting, past and present, from the standpoint of their painting language. There will be in-class observational painting from the model and the model in a larger environment (model sessions typically last three to four sessions). |
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| Realist Painting / PAI 4062 3 |
Christopher Chippendale
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| S 9:00AM - 4:15PM Building B B307 |
9/6/2008 - 12/13/2008
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| PAI 4062 C3: 4.00 Credits |
| $1790 |
| PAI 4062 N3: 0.00 Credits |
| $1370 |
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| This multi-level course in realist painting requires no significant prior experience in this particular discipline, and invariably attracts new and returning students with a range of backgrounds and skill levels. We will focus on the means and language of direct painting techniques in the service of illusionism, as well as a broad and supple set of painting skills fundamental to observational painting (firm color mixing, synthetic ways of seeing and making, the material use of paint, and reading tone through color). Ancillary to our studio focus, we will examine modes and models of realist painting, past and present, from the standpoint of their painting language. There will be in-class observational painting from the model and the model in a larger environment (model sessions typically last three to four sessions). |
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| Portrait Painting and Drawing / PAI 4067 1 |
Patrick Carter
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| T 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building A A316 |
9/2/2008 - 12/9/2008
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| PAI 4067 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 4067 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| Portraiture is specific and general, timely and timeless. It informs us about a particular individual while telling us something about us all. The portrait, whether a painting or drawing, involves technical, organizational, spiritual, and philosophical concerns basic to any work of art. The initial objective is to produce a physical resemblance to the model, but it is even more important to progress toward the elusive "other" inner life (sometimes at the expense of physical likeness). Several approaches will be introduced to help you discover a natural and personal direction. You will use drawing and painting materials such as charcoal, graphite, acrylics, ink washes, water-based paint, and oil-based media. |
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| Watercolor and Water-Based Mixed Media / PAI 4093 1 |
Heidi Whitman
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| F 9:00AM - 12:15PM Building A TBA |
9/5/2008 - 12/12/2008
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| PAI 4093 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 4093 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| You will explore the broad range of contemporary water-based media, which includes watercolor, gouache, acrylic, acryla/gouache, and casein. We will examine how wet media can be used effectively with collage and with drawing materials such as marker, graphite, charcoal, and ink. Experimentation with new, different, and combinations of media will help you develop your technique and personal imagery. We will work from observation (still life and models), photographs, and the imagination. There will be projects involving photographs, journals, and maps as sources of inspiration and content. Class discussions, critiques, slide lectures, and visits to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will be integral to the course. Weekly out-of-class assignments will expand upon work done in class. Open to all levels and abilities. |
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| Figurative Abstraction / PAI 4200 1 |
Gerri Rachins
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| W 6:30PM - 9:45PM Building B B307 |
9/3/2008 - 12/10/2008
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| PAI 4200 C1: 2.00 Credits |
| $895 |
| PAI 4200 N1: 0.00 Credits |
| $685 |
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| Using the live model as source material, students explore the abstraction process by developing paintings derived from the figure. We will experiment with traditional and non-traditional techniques and materials (including wet and dry media such as paint, inks, water-soluble crayons, pencils, paintings). As the student work progresses, personal expression, and the development of "artistic vision" will be emphasized. During each class, a group critique occurs of all student work during that session. In addition, individual critiques will occur throughout the course. Students develop a more critical eye, as well as the verbal skills necessary to discuss the process of abstraction in an articulate manner. Students also gain insight into the ways in which meaningful artistic choices related to subject matter, form, and content may be used to create works of art. |
