COURSE OUTLINE: |
- Thurs. Jan. 5: Art as communicative transaction
involving Artist and intention, Viewer and interpretation, Object and value set assignment: Reflective Essay, Visual Art in My Life (5%)
- Tues.
Jan. 10: Expressiveness in visual art: Representation and Abstraction,
symbol and sign, form and function, medium and message.
- Thurs.
Jan. 12: The elements of visual art and design: scale, value, line,
movement, colour, texture, pattern, contrast, etc. Building a
vocabulary for analysis and description. (add/drop deadline)
- Tues. Jan. 17: Questions to ask of a work of art: building a vocabulary and an “eye”
- No class on Thurs. Jan. 19: Day 2 of Winter Interdisciplinary Studies Conference
- Tues. Jan. 24: The elements of style, the meaning of genre. Reflective Essay due 5%
- Thurs. Jan. 26: The major movements and periods in the history of art in Western Civilization.
- Tues.
Jan. 31: Students show a work of art brought from home and describe its
aesthetic qualities, provenance, function, and meaning. (Art as private
property)
- Thurs. Feb. 2: Field trip 1 (return to campus by
2pm): Art as commodity, as public good, as repository of cultural
heritage: Visit to commercial galleries and to The Art Gallery of
Alberta, including some public art installations.
- Tues. Feb. 7:
Art and originality: influence, appropriation, pastiche, plagiarism—is
art-making a communal and collaborative or an individual
enterprise?
- (set assignment: Interview report on a
studio visit with a local visual artist OR Report on the visual design
of a worship space and the visual components of a worship event (30%)
- Thurs.
Feb. 9: Visual art and The Bible—is there a big biblical idea to lead
Christians toward obedience in making and using visual art?
- Tues. Feb. 14: Art idolatries: the consequences of deifying artists, artworks, or the viewer’s opinion.
- Thurs.
Feb. 16: Art in worship: visual design of church buildings and worship
spaces, visual art elements in liturgy, some traditions and heritages
of visual communication in church.
- Reading Week Feb. 20-24
- Tues. Feb. 28: Reflections on the “natural” and the human-modified landscape as the subject of visual artworks.
- Thurs.
March 1: Field trip (back to campus by 2pm): Art and design in the
built environment: seeking the good life through urban design and
planning. A neighbourhood walk in three contrasting residential
areas.
- Tues. March 6: Presentations by students (power-point)
of studio visits or worship spaces and liturgies. (30% of the final
grade)
- Thurs. March 8: More student presentations
- Set assignment: written review of an art exhibition or an art publication
- Tues.
March 13: Field trip to The Nina Haggerty Gallery and studios, a tattoo
parlour, and a shopping centre. Visual art as therapy, as
indicator of personal identity and group affiliation
- Thurs. March 15: Reading visual art criticism in the professional and popular press.
- Tues. March 20: Visual art in mass media/entertainment: reading visual art and design on TV, in movies, on the web
- Thurs. March 22: Visual art and design in live performance events such as theatre, dance, and concerts.
- Tues.
March 27: Visual art for persuasion: reading visual art and design in
advertising, propaganda, product design and packaging and branding.
- Thurs. March 29: The training of visual artists.
- Tues. April 3: Artist associations, co-operatives, funding sources, etc. Politics of art.
- Review assignment due for 25%
- Thurs. April 5: Visual art and environmental responsibility.
- Final exam: 1.5 hours, 30% Vocabulary and three 100-word responses to selected work
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