ART 255 - Advanced Painting 1

Credits: 5
Covers theory, as well as practice and encourages originality and creativity. Furthers student understanding of the methods, materials, and ideas that are central to the practice of painting still lifes, figures, and landscapes.

Prerequisite: ART 105, ART 109, ART 111, or instructor’s permission.

Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Demonstrate compositional development of objects/shapes in the picture plane.
Create simple to involved landscape and still-life assignments.
Demonstrate light and shade theories as applicable to painting.
Demonstrate color evaluation and its relationship to creating depth and volume.
Demonstrate the ability to become more fluent in making their concepts and responses materialize.
Demonstrate the ability to respond to and evaluate an aesthetic experience using reasoned judgment.
Demonstrate the ability to abstract and examine relationships between parts.
Demonstrate the ability to be creative and value good craftsmanship.

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of visual arts.
Demonstrate responsibility by class attendance and completion of assignments and projects.

College-wide Outcomes

Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.