Course Syllabus
Course: ART 2190
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Visual Art
Title: Figure Studio
Semester Approved: Spring 2024
Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2028
End Semester: Fall 2029
Catalog 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.
Semesters Offered: TBA
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 0; Lab: 2
Repeatable: Yes.
Prerequisites: Drawing I Art 1110
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.
General Education Outcomes:
5: A student who completes the GE curriculum can communicate effectively through writing and speaking.
Student Learning Outcomes:
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 Students will be introduced to a variety of life drawing materials and techniques, through: lectures, discussions, and demonstrations. Students will gain proficiency by completing weekly assignments, and by participating in life drawing sessions with the model. Each student will be required to maintain a portfolio documenting their development and progress. This portfolio will be reviewed at multiple points in the semester to provide feedback for improvement.
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 Students will be instructed in formal and conceptual approaches to figurative art, through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations. Evidence of proficiency will culminate in their written proposal and production of their final project. This knowledge will enhance their formal and conceptual sensibilities. The final proposal and project will be reviewed at multiple points in the semester to provide feedback for improvement.
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 Students will engage in a dialog examining the historic practice and contemporary response to figure drawing, through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations. Evidence of proficiency will culminate in their written proposal and production of their final project. This knowledge will enhance their creative sensibilities. The final proposal and project will be reviewed at multiple points in the semester to provide feedback for improvement.
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 Students will learn the process of critical analysis (both orally and in written form) as it applies to figure drawing, through lectures, group critiques, and private interviews. To verbally assess efforts is an integral part of the creative process. Evidence of proficiency will culminate in their written proposal and production of their final project. This knowledge will enhance their formal creative sensibilities. The final proposal and project will be reviewed at multiple points in the semester to provide feedback for improvement.
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
Key Performance Indicators:
Each student will be evaluated on:
Portfolio reviews 20 to 30%
Projects/assignments 40 to 50%
Attendance/participation 30 to 40%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
No text is required for this course.
Materials and supplies to be determined at the discretion of the instructor.
Pedagogy Statement:
This course will include, lectures, class discussion, oral and written critiques, demonstrations, and applied studio projects and practices. Student from a wide range of familiarity will be given tools and opportunity to achieve proficiency in figure drawing.
Instructional Mediums:
Lab
Maximum Class Size: 12
Optimum Class Size: 16
