ARTX201: Visual Fundamentals—Schedule

Spring Quarter 2016, Kalamazoo College

Richard Koenig, Professor

 

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

1

Introductions

Syllabus and schedule

Talk: Overview

Walk to bookstore for supplies

 

Talk: Introduction; Texture (Rep/Frag/Abstr)

Assignment: Photo-shift

Work time

Assign reading 1: Davis

2

Discuss reading 1 (with History/Work One)

Talk: Point/Line/Shape

Assignment: Line/Basic Shapes (conflate/new)

Work time

 

Talk: Balance

Assignment: Balance Collage

Work time

3

Catch up time

Critique work done thus far

 

Give new assignment: Photography Basics (new)

Work with Photoshop newbies in FABLAB

Assign mini-reading: Albers

 

4

Talk: Color (plus discuss Albers reading)

9:30 AM Look at Paul SmithsonÕs Albers portfolio

Assignment: Cubes (altered—a la Diebenkorn/Hoffman)

Work time

 

Look at photography

Assignment 3:4 and 3:2 (altered/simpler)

Assign reading 2: McEvilley/Foucault

Due on Friday 11:00 AM—photo-shift, line/shapes, balance, photography (first three in small portfolio, photography in shared Dropbox folder)

 

5

Discuss reading 2 (with History/Work Two)

Work time

 

Critique color works

Work time

Assign reading 3: Greenberg

 

6

Discuss reading 3 (with History/Work Three)

Talks: Value and Space

Assignments: Decorative/Descriptive and Shallow Space

Work Time

 

Critique value/space works

Catch up on color/value assignments

Due on Friday 5:00 PM—cubes, 3:4/3:2, decorative value, descriptive value or shallow space

E-mail me your journal as well

 

7

Demonstration: Document Artwork

Digital Basics: Bits of 5, 6, and 7 of my DD pages

Show websites from last year

Begin documenting for your websites

 

Assignment: Project One

Begin websites

Continue documentation of work and optimization

Assign reading four: Foster

 

8

Discuss reading four (with History/Work Four)

Work Time

 

 

Working Critique—Websites

Work Time

9

Critique Project One—at the beginning of class

Assignment: Project Two

 

 

Work Time

10

Course evaluations

Work Time

 

Critique Project Two

Website and journal also due

Conclusion

 

 

Pick up final projects during our official final exam time slot.

 

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