Art Studio

This is an advanced level course for studio art students who already have experience in drawing techniques. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course is held at the Accademia di Belle Arti during the first and second semesters: 160A for fall and 160B for spring. Students are required to attend the theoretical part and the studio laboratory, and to complete individual projects. The course teaches students to perceive the human form through a structural view in order to grasp and identify the structural and plastic components and to reach an interpretation of the form in both analysis and synthesis.

This course examines the glass vessel in everyday life and its application as a conceptual agent in contemporary art. By nature, the glassblowing process creates a vessel or container from a mass of molten glass. Through research projects students investigate the psychology of the glass vessel through its function and physical properties. Students develop fundamental hand skills and glassblowing techniques through structured weekly workshops, and combine practical skills with contextual knowledge in the development of conceptually themed projects. Students may work exclusively with glass or in conjunction with other media and processes.

This course presents opportunities for students to develop technical and artistic photographic skills outside of their declared majors. It helps build good citizenship skills and a greater appreciation of the activities and important moments of university and community life. Students develop technical and artistic photographic skills through the documentation of aspects of university and community life as part of the Photography Club.

This course involves building a project using complex installation devices that fundamentally question plasticity, setting and space, and the place of the spectator in relation to the production. Students respond to a subject, incentive, problem, or theme through increasingly personal mediums, postures, gestures, and tools to situate this realization in the field of contemporary creation.

This course examines ways of evaluating, describing and illustrating the various elements of a visual image such as shape and form, space, line, values and texture.