PORTRAIT PAINTING
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course number: 22-2265 SR
Dept: Painting and Drawing
Prerequisite: A basic understanding of oil painting
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Course description:
This course will focus on the validity of portraiture within contemporary painting as well as referencing the vast history of portraiture in all mediums. Readings from critics and artists on portraiture will be provided for discussion throughout the course. Students paint the figure from direct observation and discuss formal issues such as composition, handling of materials and color and reinforce issues of form, proportion and gesture. In addition to discussion and lectures, critiques are offered on both an individual and group basis. Students paint in oil and should have a basic understanding of oil painting as a prerequisite to the course.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course number: 22-2265 SR
Dept: Painting and Drawing
Prerequisite: A basic understanding of oil painting
Click here to ask for this course's syllabus
Course description:
This course will focus on the validity of portraiture within contemporary painting as well as referencing the vast history of portraiture in all mediums. Readings from critics and artists on portraiture will be provided for discussion throughout the course. Students paint the figure from direct observation and discuss formal issues such as composition, handling of materials and color and reinforce issues of form, proportion and gesture. In addition to discussion and lectures, critiques are offered on both an individual and group basis. Students paint in oil and should have a basic understanding of oil painting as a prerequisite to the course.
Santa Reparata International School of Art, SRISA - Via
San Gallo, 53r Florence Italy, info@santareparata.org
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