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Course Syllabus

ART 2320 Portrait Painting

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Visual Art
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 3
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: ART 1110
  • Semesters Offered: TBA
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2023
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2028
  • Optimum Class Size: 12
  • Maximum Class Size: 16

Course Description

This studio course is an introduction to portrait painting, emphasizing the techniques of rendering the human image and likeness. This course will address the fundamental processes consistent in historic and current portrait painting practices. A lab fee is required.

Justification

This course is an integral part of figurative art foundation curriculum. Its primary goal is to provide a sound foundation in the visual representation, composition, and likeness of the human head and features. Our colleagues from other fine arts institutions and commercial industries have encouraged us to make available as much figure drawing and figurative study as possible to emerging painters, illustrators, animators, sculptors. It mirrors painting courses at many other state and private institutions. This course has also been designed anticipating the eventual development of a figure proficiency certificate at Snow College.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes of Material Proficiency:
  2. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes of Conceptual Principles:
  3. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes of Historical Context:
  4. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes of Critical Analysis:
  5. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes: Creative Process

Course Content

Students will be introduced to the process of portrait painting through a variety of means, which include lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and art critiques. These teaching methods are tailored to accommodate unique learning styles that will culminate with the completion of a variety of creative projects. Students will work from the live model and explore a variety of historic and contemporary approaches to portrait painting. Conduct a critical study of light logic and how it defines form. Students will also be introduced to the critical analysis process and develop a means to discuss and write about art.