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| DR 252 - Life Drawing |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered summer, fall, spring. This course is an intensive study of the nude. Issues of form, structure, volume, movement, composition, and expressive possibilities are explored and practiced. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Required for all majors except graphic design, interior architecture, and photography. Recommended sophomore course |
| Painting and Drawing: The Figure |
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| Painting and Drawing: Landscape and Interior |
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| SC/DR 272 - Figurative Reflectns:Sclp/Drwg |
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| 3 credits. Copskey. Offered fall, spring. This course provides a unique opportunity to combine life drawing and sculpture together. Focus revolves around in-depth study of the human figure, emphasizing anatomy structure, proportions, mass, and quick studies. Both disciplines enrich eye-hand coordination. At the end of each sculpture exercise students are encouraged to photograph their work. Sculpture credit only (not Drawing). No prerequisites. Freshman elective. |
| DR 5324 - Anatomy for Artists |
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| 3 credits. Little, Poscover. Offered spring. Drawing requires answers to a number of questions. How to suggest three dimensions in a two-dimensional format? How to imply movement in a product that is still? What to omit and what to include to achieve a given effect? The purpose of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the human musculoskeletal system through a combination of lectures, labs, and directed studio assignments. The hope is that by better understanding human structure and motion students will be able to find their own answers to these questions. This is not a course in medical illustration. Nor is it intended to be an academic approach to figure drawing. |
| DR 298A - Studio Drwg:Portrait |
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| A general introduction of portrait drawing, this course covers skulls, planes and masses of the head, muscles of expression, age differentiation, characterization, adornment, lighting, and the double portrait, among other subjects. There are models of all ages and some clay modeling. |
| DR 298C - Studio Drwg:Composition |
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| 3 credits. Koch, Park, Roeder. Offered fall, spring. In this course, compositional elements are explored for their expressive and formal possibilities within the general framework of realistic space. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298D - Studio Drwg:Animal Imagery |
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| 3 credits. staff. Offered occasionally. This class uses animals as a vehicle to explore form, structure, and content while delving into the history of animals in illustration, expression, symbolism, and metaphor. Slide lectures on various cultures and master artists trace some of man's involvement with animal symbols, scientific studies, and myth. Students work at the zoo, the aquarium, local farms, and in class from props, including skulls and taxidermy, as well as from life and photographic references. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298E - Studio Drwg:Conceptual Comp. |
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| The goal of perceptual drawing is an accurate and faithful rendering of objects, people or events. In conceptual art, however, the idea itself is an expressive device and is the most important part of the work. By emphasizing the planning and decisions made before the drawing is executed, conceptual drawing attempts to extend the parameters of drawing. This results in work that engages the spectator cerebrally, rather than simply visually. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199 or equivalent (Foundations of Drawing I and II). |
| DR 298F - Studio Drawing: 2-D for 3-D |
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| 3 credits. Stevens. Offered fall. This course in structural linear drawing is designed for students who are interested in using drawing as part of the process of developing 3-D works. Drawings and small 3-D models will feed off of each other in the development of 3-D pieces, giving students the tools to develop their ideas three-dimensionally without having to construct them in full scale. The course includes examination of site specific ideas for indoor or outdoor public sculpture. Students examine the work of sculptors such as Eva Hesse, Maya Lin, Christo, Claes Oldenburg, Vito Acconci, Alice Aycock, and Andy Goldsworthy. The course is open to all but will be of special interest to those involved with 3-D projects. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298G - Studio Drwg:Illusionism |
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| 3 credits. Waters-Eller. Offered spring. The techniques necessary to create more effective visual illusion are explored in class problems and homework assignments. The perceptual process involved in the depiction of distance and volume is studied to assist the understanding of what is required in spatial illusion. Slides are shown of the various ways artists use illusion from realistic to paradoxical effects. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298H - Studio Drwg:Let There Be Light |
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| 3 credits. LaPerriere. Offered summer, fall, spring. This course explores the illusion of light and the effects of light on form. Various subject matter and drawing media are explored through careful observation of everyday and unusual lighting situations. The course is supplemented with films and slide discussions. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298J - Studio Drwg:Still Lfe/Interior |
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| Still life and interiors will be studied separately and in combination with each other. Emphasis will be placed on careful observation and articulation of volumes, space and place, tonal values, rhythms, effects of light on subject matter and compositional clarity. Student is encourged to develop personal resources, images, and forms. Investigations will be in the classroom as well as sites around the city. |
| DR 298L - Studio Drwg:From Masters |
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| 3 credits. Hennessey, J. Offered fall. This is a course in creative drawing as informed by the art of the past. The class meets and works at The Walters Art Gallery. Attendance is mandatory. Homework is based in varying degrees on master drawings, attitudes, and techniques. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298M - Studio Drwg:Realistic Comp. |
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| 3 credits. Garmey. Offered fall. This drawing class is a exploration of observational composition using different formats and picture planes. Students strengthen their abilities to depict complex compositions using the elements and principles of drawing and push the placements of the figure/ground-interactions. Students define space using a variety of media. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298O - Studio Drawing:Nature |
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| 3 credits. Roeder, Hennessey, L. Offered fall, spring. This course explores natural subject matter through observation and aesthetically selective description. Emphasis is on light, composition, form, surface, space, and environment. Students use skulls, shells, birds, animals, live crabs, landscape and flora, and take field trips to zoos, conservatories, and gardens. Slides of contemporary naturalists and old masters, i.e. Redoute, Ehret, Audubon and Fuertes, and videos of Banks Florilegium, Robert Bateman, and Beatrix Potter are shown. Homework consists of individually developed projects that are broader than class study. All black and white materials and the Nature Library are used. Watercolor is optional but encouraged. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298Q - Studio Drawing: Sumi Ink |
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| 3 credits. Song. Offered Fall, Spring. This course will teach the ancient Asian art of sumi-ink. Students will learn the traditional vocabulary of sumi-ink while gaining an understanding of history and philosophy of ancient Eastern culture. Material and techniques include working with rice paper, sumi ink, rabbit skin glue, and backing. We will address the different genres of line drawing, plant painting (the Four Gentlemen), calligraphy, still life, figures, and landscape. There will be weekly assignments, a midterm and final. Prerequisite: FF 198 and 199. |
| DR 298R - Studio Drwg:Landscape |
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| A naturalistic approach to darwing from the landscape. Traveling (school van) and working at a variety of sites in Baltimore and surrounding area. Exploring various materials and their possibility as they relate to the landscape. Mid-November class will come indoors and continue with landscapes and interiors looking on to landscapes. Various slide talks relating to the subject of landscape. |
| DR 298S - Studio Drwg: From Architecture |
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| 3 credits. Wilson. Offered occasionally. This freehand drawing course uses observation-drawing exercises to develop the spatial awareness critical to developing a convincing sense of depth and atmosphere in representing architectural space. Direct observation, abstraction of observation drawings, perspective studies, and plan and section drawing types are employed to understand and convey complex spatial relationships. Pen and ink, charcoal, and watercolor are used in the studio and on site. Architectural field trips are a significant component of this course. |
| DR 298X - Studio Drwg:Painterly |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered fall. The emphasis of this course is on issues of representational drawing and draftsmanship that reach beyond their most familiar and traditional linear expression to incorporate greater range of mark-making and media as in works of such artists as Rembrandt, Boya, Tiepolo, and Diebenkorn. Students explore relationships between line and mass, observation and experimentation. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 298Y - Studio Drwg:Structural |
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| 3 credits. Park. Offered spring. To be convincing, expressive marks need to understand the structures they attempt to describe. Employing conventional and unconventional freehand drawing tools, this course explores the structures of forms. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. Fulfills studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
| DR 332 - Drawing through Movies |
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| 3 credits. Sangiamo. Offered spring. Outstanding movies are viewed weekly and discussed for their cinematic techniques and thematic content. At home, students do interpretative drawings that are inspired by the viewed movies. Mornings are for seeing and discussing the movies, afternoons for group critiques. Grading is Pass/Fail. Prerequisites: DR 252 and DR 298. Cumulative GPA in drawing must be at least 3.0 (or permission of the instructor). |
| DR 344 - Advanced Illusionism |
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| 3 credits. Waters-Eller. Offered spring. Students will continue to develop illusionistic skills through nore advanced in-class assignments that push technical and conceptual power using space and volume. More advanced perceptual science will be presented with each topic. Out of class work will be to develop a series of related works that apply illusionism in an individual way, exploring possibilities that challenge past limits and develop a personal way of using illion for your own goals. |
| DR 352 - Interpretative Figure Drawing |
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| 3 credits. Stevens. Offered fall, spring. This course explores ways in which the study of figure can extend drawing possibilities. Issues include distortion, foreshortening, dramatic manipulation of viewpoint, and chiaroscuro effects as they apply to imperatives of personal expression. Prerequisites: DR 252 and DR 298. |
| DR 365 - From Perception To Metaphor |
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| 3 credits. Plattner. Offered spring. Working from selected objects of their choice, students familiarize themselves thoroughly with their subject matter through a series of carefully observed perceptual drawings. They then explore associative, expressive, and metaphoric possibilities of the objects, devising long-term independent projects that develop the metaphoric expression as richly as possible in a series of drawings. Various techniques are used to help elicit associative responses to the objects including sketches, automatic writing, and studies of texture, surface, form, shape, and color of the objects. Choice of medium and combination of mediums are up to each student. Prerequisites: DR 252 and DR 298. |
| Painting and Drawing: Narrative |
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| GFA 374 - Out of Your Mind: Human Body |
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| 3 credits. Weiss. Offered spring. Many artists work with the human figure in a way that does not require live models or an observational approach. These artists create the figures out of their minds. This workshop provides a gathering place for many styles, media, methods, and techniques to co-exist. Both two- and three-dimensional approaches will be acceptable. Students are encouraged to develop a body of work unique to their own vision of how and what the human body means to them without the aid of live models. There are weekly one-on-one critiques and slide discussions that cover artists whose work illustrates course content. Students are required to work in the classroom. Prerequisite: DR 252. |
| DR 5386 - Seeing Color |
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| The purpose of this course is to sensitize students to new levels of color understanding through the medium of drawing. In the first half of the semester emphasis is on color observation and the dramatic, unexpected color change that light causes. Special attention will be paid to the subtly and complex relationship between color and value. Through these first projects which are done in pastel, students expand their vocabulary and use of color beyond their familiar habitual palettes. These projects lay the groundwork for the second half of the semester in which students develop individual, independent projects of their own choice, exploring an idea or approach of their own choosing, working in any color drawing media. |
| DR 388 - Abstractions |
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| 3 credits. Weiss. Offered fall. This course is a search for abstract imagery, meaning, and understanding with an individual approach to abstraction. Students are helped to clarify their own issues and to develop their own language of abstraction. Slides, discussions, and one-on-one critiques will be used. Students are required to work in the classroom. |
| DR 392 - Watercolor Drawing |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered occasionally. Varied approaches to watercolor as drawing medium. Emphasis on handling of wash areas and brush strokes in traditional and experimental ways; on use of color, on representation of volumes and spaces, and on techniques unique to watercolor medium. |
| DR 394 - Color Media Drawing |
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| 3 credits. Plattner. Offered fall. This course explores the techniques used for color media: pencil, pastel, wash. Through these media, the formal expressive and psychological uses of color are explored within the context of drawings. Emphasis is also on these media and techniques as a bridge between drawing and painting. |
| DR 452 - Advanced Figure Drawing |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered occasionally. The objective of this course is further mastery over representation of the nude through independent practice. Students are provided with two models, one for 5-hour pose, the other for action; studio; and an instructor for general oversight, occasional lecture, and individual discussion or critiques upon request. Attendance the full five hours required. All drawing media is acceptable. Space is limited to students with good figure drawing skills (B+ or better in DR 252) and strong interest in further practice on their own in an independent-study studio atmosphere. |
| Sorrento Summer: Experiencing Southern Italy through Painting and Drawing |
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