Course Content and Outcome Guide for ART 292C
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- ART 292C
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- Sculpture: Mixed Media
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Course DescriptionExplores intermediate sculptural form, processes, techniques, and concepts while addressing historical and contemporary issues in sculpture. Develops creative problem solving through making sculpture. Employs intermediate level mixed media techniques. Establishes critical skills necessary to evaluate sculpture through critiques, discussions, and sculpture presentations by exploring artistic intent, examining aesthetic and structural solutions, and expanding perceptual awareness of sculpture. This is the third of a three-course sequence. Prerequisites: Two terms of ART 292 or ART 292B or instructor permission. Recommended: ART 117. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Students will endeavor to do the following:* Employ creative ways to solve problems using a variety of strategies at theintermediate level for making mixed media sculpture.* Create personal works of sculpture, which demonstrate an intermediate level ofunderstanding of sculptural ideas, materials and techniques associated with mixedmedia.* Ask meaningful questions, identify ideas and issues, to actively participate in acritical dialogue about sculpture with others using intermediate level vocabulary* Understand, interpret, and enjoy sculpture of the past and the present fromdifferent cultures to employ a lifelong process of expanding knowledge on thediversity of perspectives of the human experience.* Develop a heightened awareness of the physical world, the nature of therelationship of human beings to it, and our impact on it via the experience ofmaking mixed media sculpture.* Employ self-critiquing skills to expand autonomous expression through mixedmedia sculpture while recognizing the standards and definitions alreadyestablished by both contemporary and historical works of art from differentcultures.
Course Activities and Design
1)Create sculptures that incorporate a variety of technical skills with an awarenessof the inherent characteristics of different sculpture processes using mixed media.2)Generate ideas/concepts with an awareness of the intended content of the workproduced.3)Build upon current skill set with the intent of working towards technicalproficiency with mixed media4)Practice safe studio practices in regards to the handling of tools, chemicals andmachinery within a communal studio space.5)Utilize the necessary vocabulary specific to sculpture when participating in classcritiques and discussions.6)Assess and self-critique personal work to strategize creative solutions for mixedmedia.7)Develop personal work with an awareness of historical and contemporary artistsworking in sculpture.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
*Make creative, appropriately crafted, challenging sculptural solutions togiven provocations using various mixed media techniques at theintermediate level.*Comprehend and apply analysis of sculptural ideas, techniques,terminology, and issues through participation in formal critiques anddiscussions using a intermediate level of vocabulary.*Develop conceptual ideas through the practice of creative research and preparatory studies (e.g. sketchbooks, journals, maquettes, models, writingassignments, presentations, technical practice tests, etc.).
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Concepts, Ideas, and Issues Pertaining to the Creative Process*Strategies for developing ideas (i.e. experiencing and playing withmaterials, imagining, dreaming, visualizing, symbolizing, writing,reading, researching, studying historical and cultural examples,sketching, collaborating, discussing)*Strategies for problem solving towards concretion of ideas in sculpturalform (i.e. sketches, plans, maquettes, test pieces, models)*Perception and Art*Form and Content*Interpreting artHistorical and Cultural Contexts*Concepts, theories, and issues addressed by various cultures andhistorical periods*Concepts, theories, and issues addressed by contemporary sculptors fromdifferent cultures*Relationships between form and content in works of art from differentcultures and historical periods*The roles of art and artists in different cultures*Intercultural and interhistorical influences (e.g. the influence of cycladicand African art on western, modern sculpture)Sculptural Forms and Perceptual Impact*Visual/physical elements used to create sculptural form: point, line, plane,shape, form, marks, texture, shadow, light, value, color, space, sound,smell, weight, volume, mass, text, etc.*Relationships of characteristics of visual/ physical elements to beconsidered (e.g. proportion, length, thickness, position, orientation,scale, weight, interrelationship of shapes, relative value and color,movement and stillness, quality of texture etc.)*Strategies for manipulating visual/physical elements that is ways ofthinking of composing with visual/physical elements (e.g. arrange,juxtapose, relate, contrast, group, balance, unify, repeat, edit, elaborate, classify, divide, increase, decrease, maximize, minimize,dissect, separate, align, vary, diversify, alternate, reduce, connect,etc.)*The relationship between materials and their visual/ physical impact(i.e. astick or string acts as a line, an indentation in a form is simultaneouslyperceived as a mark, a material is chosen for its shape and color etc,an element is chosen for its weighty quality, an object or material isused for it's olfactory impact, an object is chosen for its associativequalities etc.)*Materials and Techniques*Gravity and the basic forces of tension and compression.*Materials and meaning*Physical activities used to alter and form mixed media material (e.g. cut,bend, heat, carve, compress, stretch, twist, smash, etc.)*Physical ways of connecting mixed media materials together(e.g. butt,prop, lean, bind, glue, stack, wrap, sew, peg, nail, slot, weld, screw,rivet, add, compress, tense, tie, pin, cantilever, balance, etc.)*Types of sculptural processes which can be incorporated in mixed mediasculpture(e.g casting, carving, assemblage, welding, woodconstruction, sewing etc.)*Safety and Environmental concerns of materials and techniques: properdisposal of waste, places where recycled material can be found,proper safety attire to be used when working with specific materials,health related concerns, sources of information on these subjectsCritical Analysis*Purposes of criticism and analysis of artworks: deepen understanding,reflect on level of quality and possible improvements, heightencreative decision making by observing decisions made by others andoneself, establish and maintain high standards of achievement, askquestions, find new connections, create autonomy and creativeconfidence, create new problems to solve, discuss art with others toexpose oneself to multiple perspectives etc.*Vocabulary relevant to ideas, materials, and techniques pertaining tomixed media sculpture *Application, interpretation, and redefinition of sculptural ideas, connectionof historical and cultural contexts, personal expression and creativefreedom*Aspects of criticism: formal, conceptual, historical, cultural, experiential etc.