Spring 2024 Visual Arts UN3011 section 001

PROBLEMS IN DRAWING

Call Number 14209
Day & Time
Location
T 5:00pm-9:00pm
501 Dodge Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Edward Minoff
Type WORKSHOP
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Prerequisites: VIAR R1000. (Formerly R4005) Students will connect with the very heart of the Western Art tradition, engaging in this critical activity that was the pillar of draftsmanship training from the Renaissance on through the early Modern Era. This pursuit is the common thread that links artists from Michelangelo and Rubens to Van Gogh and Picasso. Rigorous studies will be executed from plaster casts of antique sculptures, and pedagogical engravings. Students will confront foundational issues of academic training; assessing proportion and tonal value, structure and form. Hours will be spent on a single drawing pushing to the highest degree of accuracy in order develop a means for looking at nature. There is a focus on precision and gaining a thorough understanding of the interaction between light and a surface. This approach emphasizes drawing by understanding the subject and the physical world that defines it. While this training has allowed great representational artists of the past to unlock the poetry from the world around them and continues to inspire a surging new realist movement, it can also serve as a new way of seeing and a launching point for achieving creative goals. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

Web Site Vergil
Department Visual Arts
Enrollment 13 students (18 max) as of 9:05PM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Subject Visual Arts
Number UN3011
Section 001
Division School of the Arts
Open To Schools of the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Global Programs, General Studies, Professional Studies
Fee $80 Visual Arts Course
Note First class attendance is mandatory.
Section key 20241VIAR3011R001