DRPT-1003 PAINTING I
Course description:
Painting I introduces students to the fundamentals of colour theory, colour mixing and critique while engaging students in contemporary painting practices. Students’ progress through projects that build conceptual skill acquisition along with exposure to diverse approaches to painting research. Lectures investigate materiality, design, critical historical contexts and essential art vocabulary. Lessons encourage working with sustainable surfaces and experimental approaches to constructing work. Students learn the essentials of critical reflection and how to develop artist statements. Course activities carry across the Fall and Winter semesters and students must register in both Painting I and Painting II during the same academic year.
Learning outcomes:
- Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the basics of painting through the employment of safe, healthy and sustainable studio practices.
- Apply a fundamental understanding of the basics of painting by exploring observational and non-observational strategies and a range of content.
- Demonstrate fundamentals of colour theory, including completing assigned paint mixing (analogue) and/or digital colour manipulation exercises; predicting colour outcomes from mixing in additive and subtractive systems and testing aspects of colour theory.
- Articulate their studio practice through observing and analyzing the work of their peers through engaging in writing statements, discussion and critique.
- Choose appropriate processes for formulating strategic research ideas, materials, techniques and theory, while maintaining documentation of ideas and research.
DRPT 1004 Painting 2
Course description:
Building on the skills acquired in Painting I, students explore varied approaches to painting and shape their observational and creative skills through figuration, abstraction and digital processes. Along with improving their painterly skills, students consider cultural appropriation, personal identity and are exposed to conceptual conventions of contemporary painting. Studio work explores various modes of making and displaying their artwork. Lectures introduce concepts of responsible figuration, de-colonial approaches to art-making, experimental engagements with the surface, and research into digital hybrid constructions in painting. Students continue to develop their skills in writing and critique that were introduced in Painting I.
Learning Outcomes
- Manipulate the formal elements, composition and the principles of visual perception in paintings in relation to the figure.
- Position their work critically, and develop sensitivity to cross-cultural perspectives within art, in relation to de-colonial, historical and contemporary visual theory
- Gain from an introduction to conceptualization strategies by using life experience and social/cultural knowledge as a basis for exploring ideas
- Explore a variety of conventional and non-conventional media, tools and techniques, including digital media and sustainable material choices.
Contextualize and articulate a rationale for their work based on their own lived experience and research.
Key Vocabulary
Additional vocabulary may be introduced.
Colour: achromatic, monochromatic, polychromatic (primary, secondary, intermediary, tertiary, analogous, 7 major contrasts (hue, value, temperature, area, complementary, simultaneous/successive/mixed contrast, saturation), Chroma, proportion, additive, subtractive, partitive or optical colour mixing, psychological colour, colour systems,
Composition: plane, volume, shape, form, contour, structure, grids, symmetry, balance, repetition, rhythm, focal point, abstract, geometric, representational, non-objective, contrast, pictorial space, picture plane, critical analysis elements, principles, spatial indicators (size, overlap, transparency, shadow, orientation, elevation, aerial perspective, diagonal, colour perspective)
Visual Perception: physiology of the eye, visual pathway, cones and rods, vision, induction/after images, Gestalt theory (figure & grouping laws – proximity, similarity, continuation, closure), semiotics, monocular, binocular, convergence, dynamics of picture plane (horizontal, vertical, perpendicular, diagonal), figure/ground relationships, visual illusions, light
Introduction to Painting 