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Course Syllabus

ART 2190 Figure Studio

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Visual Art
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 0; Lab: 2
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: ART 1110
  • Semesters Offered: TBA
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2024
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2029
  • Optimum Class Size: 16
  • Maximum Class Size: 12

Course Description

This course is designed for the practicing art student who wishes to continue their concentration and study of the human figure. The focus of this course will be placed on working from the live model. The development of observational, and creative skills will be stressed, employing a wide range of traditional and contemporary mediums. Composition, proportions, and work ethic will also be stressed. A lab fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.

Justification

Our colleagues from other fine arts institutions and commercial industries have encouraged us to make available as much figure drawing and figurative research as possible for emerging animators, painters, sculptors, graphic artists, and illustrators. It is pertinent that art majors develop the skills taught in this course to be able to succeed in these respected career fields. This course has also been designed anticipating the eventual development of a figure proficiency certificate at Snow College.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes: Material Proficiency
  2. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of conceptual principles
  3. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate an awareness of historical content
  4. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding, proficiency, and fluency in the following Snow College Visual Arts Student Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate critical analysis skills

Course Content

This course cultivates the following skills:
•Drawing the human form and skeletal structure
•Drawing from the undraped model
•Exercises designed to develop spatial skills by training the mind to consciously recognize angle, size, position, and shape relationships
•Short pose gesture drawing
•Extended pose drawing
•Schematic and diagrammatic drawing explorations of the male and female human anatomy
•The study of light logic and how it affects the human form and how to communicate this on a two-dimensional surface utilizing value relationships
•The study of various drawing mediums and the traditional approach and applications of each
•Historic & contemporary figure drawing practices and their applications
•Media and stylistic experimentation
•The visual dialog of critical analysis