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VMAP 252

Observational/Representational Painting: The Figure and Its Spaces

Course Title

Observational/Representational Painting: The Figure and Its Spaces

Status

Active

Subject code

VMAP

Course Number

252

Course Long Title

Observational/Representational Painting: The Figure and Its Spaces

Description

Emphasizes observational skills and the conventions of representational art while exploring the human figure and its contextual spaces as subjects. Develops methods of oil and/or water-based painting and how to assess subject, form and content in a work of art. Begins with traditional academic methods for representing the figure working directly from live model before exploring a series of independent approaches to the figure. Includes historical and contemporary contexts for interpreting the human figure.

Min

1

Max

-

Prerequisites