FIGURE PAINTING
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course number: ART 3513C
Dept: Painting and Drawing
Prerequisite: Figure Drawing, Beginning Painting
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Course description:
Using both nude and costumed models, the compositional context of the figure and individual form development are studied. Various media and techniques are discussed and demonstrated and the instruction is approached on an individualized basis. Materials used in the course are acrylics, oils, pastels, watercolors, canvas, and paper.
Figure painting is intended to introduce the student to the pleasures and problems particular to painting the human figure from life. To this end, painting from observation is stressed using both the nude and clothed model. Compositional context as well as the formal concerns specific to the individuality of the human figure is stressed.
Acrylics, oil, ink, canvas and paper are used. Our studio sessions are augmented by museum trips and particular attention is given to the examination of the Macchiaioli painters at the Pitti Palace, the sculpture of the Bargello and the Museo Opera del Duomo.
Students are encouraged to work as a team. Class and individual projects are designed to encourage a positive group dynamic through which students learn from each other as well as from the instructor.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course number: ART 3513C
Dept: Painting and Drawing
Prerequisite: Figure Drawing, Beginning Painting
Click here to ask for this course's syllabus
Course description:
Using both nude and costumed models, the compositional context of the figure and individual form development are studied. Various media and techniques are discussed and demonstrated and the instruction is approached on an individualized basis. Materials used in the course are acrylics, oils, pastels, watercolors, canvas, and paper.
Figure painting is intended to introduce the student to the pleasures and problems particular to painting the human figure from life. To this end, painting from observation is stressed using both the nude and clothed model. Compositional context as well as the formal concerns specific to the individuality of the human figure is stressed.
Acrylics, oil, ink, canvas and paper are used. Our studio sessions are augmented by museum trips and particular attention is given to the examination of the Macchiaioli painters at the Pitti Palace, the sculpture of the Bargello and the Museo Opera del Duomo.
Students are encouraged to work as a team. Class and individual projects are designed to encourage a positive group dynamic through which students learn from each other as well as from the instructor.
Santa Reparata International School of Art, SRISA - Via
San Gallo, 53r Florence Italy, info@santareparata.org
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