ART 300-01, Life Study, Spring 2000

Abstract

This 1 credit Life Study class is a course designed for the intermediate drawing student who wants to develop a series of ambitious life study drawings. Not for the faint of heart or the rigid soul, students will be asked to make multiple corrections to their drawings using various tools, exercises and radical erasures. Though we will consider the structure and design of the body (and its kinship to academic painting) the aim of the course is to examine and engage the relationships of the complex space that is defined by the multiplicity of shapes, lumps, caves and pathways of human perception. Student will consider the human body's anatomy, musculature, weight, and gesture only within the context of the spatial possibilities of travel within the page. Drawing, collage and painting media will be explored.