ART 111 Beginning Painting for Non Art Majors

5 credits

This course meets the Humanities  general education distribution requirement.

Prerequisites: ABED 40  or AHSE 56  (or placement into MATH 87  or AHSE 66  or higher) and ABED 46  (or placement into ENGL 93 or higher)

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• Duplicate a master-painter’s landscape
• Compose a landscape with atmospheric perspective
• Transfer drawn images onto canvas
• Blend unique hues through the mixture of primary, secondary and neutral colors/tones
• Construct tonal under-painting with glazed/scumbled hues to create a still life painting
• Explore painted composition through rapid sketches
• Assess a variety of painting styles and schools
• Complete a proposed final project in a chosen artistic style

• Discuss and explain methods of creative expression, social interaction, and aesthetic considerations employed by individuals and societies
• Employ methods of intellectual and creative inquiry central to the selected Humanities course of study, using the vocabulary, concepts, historical perspectives and materials common to the chosen area
• Dependent on the Humanities area selected, interpret specific artifacts from art, film, history, language, literature, philosophy, religious thought, or narrative form and develop one’s own viewpoint or artifact using the techniques common to that area