ARTS 39904 - Abstraction: Advanced Painting

Course Credit: 1
ABSTRACTION: ADVANCED PAINTING Abstraction: Advanced Painting is an advanced hybrid studio art/seminar style class. As a class we will examine texts and other cultural artifacts producted around artists and their works, and students will consider the performative connotations of abstraction. Particular attention will be paid to the ways paint - a fluid and visceral substance - came to evoke the artist’s body and self in the wake of Abstract Expressionism. Students will respond to this research with studio projects throughout the semester, culminating in self-directed final project. Prerequisite(s): ARTS-15100 ARTS-15300 ARTH-22200 ARTH-36000 or one 200 level Studio Art course