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ARTS 832 - Advanced Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Complex compositional problems of image making will be
addressed. Students will explore a broad range of solutions
to pictorial problems to reinforce and expand individual
concepts of image and technique. Along with structured
in-class work, graduate students will be required to develop
sustained out of class projects in consultation with the
instructor. May be repeated for a total of 8 credits.
Prereq: permission.
ARTS 846 - Advanced Painting
Credits:
4.00
Development and refinement of technical skills leading to
more advanced conceptual problems will be emphasized. Along
with structured in-class work, graduate students will be
required to develop sustained out of class projects in
consultation with the instructor. May be repeated for a
total of 8 credits. Prereq: permission.
ARTS 884 - Dutch Genre Painting
Credits:
4.00
An intensive study of Dutch genre painting in the 17th
century, focusing especially on the art of Vermeer and his
contemporaries in the third quarter of the century. In
addition to the individual artists and their works,
attention will be paid to aspects of their social background
such as the emergence of privacy and the nuclear family, to
parallels with the early novel, and to general themes
governing realism as an artistic mode. Prereq: one 400- or
500 level art history course and instructor's permission.
(Also offered as ARTS 784).
ARTS 897 - Seminar in Art History
Credits:
4.00
Topics and prerequisites to be announced before
preregistration. May be repeated with permission instructor.
(Also offered as ARTS 799.)
ARTS 932 - Graduate Drawing
Credits:
6.00
Structured to emphasize developing skills and to explore
techniques to create invented and observed space. Drawing
will be considered as an inventive tool to extend the
students' repetoire of ideas. May be repeated for a total of
12 credits. Prereq: advanced drawing; permission.
ARTS 996 - Independent Study in the Visual Arts
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
C01 - Drawing; D01 - Painting; E01 - Printmaking; I01 - Art
History. An opportunity for independent study in the above
listed disciplines. The content and structure of the course
will be developed through collaboration of the graduate
student and the supervising faculty member. May be repeated
for a total of 18 credits in any one area. Prereq:
undergraduate degree in studio art and permission.
ARTS 997 - Graduate Painting Thesis
Credits:
10.00
The Graduate Painting Thesis is the culmination of the MFA
student's graduate work in painting. The course requires:
1) continued work in the studio under supervision of
graduate faculty; 2) a more formal midterm critique with
graduate faculty (oral summarization of thesis work);
3) extensive work with The Art Gallery in preparation for
the MFA Thesis Exhibition (including hanging the
exhibition); 4) the thesis exhibition itself; and 5) an oral
presentation to the faculty during the thesis exhibition.
ARTS 998 - Graduate Painting Seminar
Credits:
6.00
Students will meet on a weekly basis with the instructor
focusing on and expanding their awareness of the artist's
place in the world at the end of the 20th century. Readings,
presentations, gallery and museum visits, discussions, and
critiques will be required. Prereq: acceptance to MFA
program.