Fine Arts: 2008-2009
Description
The fine arts courses offered by the department are structured to accomplish the following: (1) For students not majoring in fine arts: to develop a visual perception of form and to present knowledge and understanding of it in works of art. (2) For students intending to major in fine arts: beyond the foregoing, to promote thinking in visual terms and to foster the skills needed to give expression to these in a coherent body of art works.
Faculty
Audrey A. and John L.Dusseau Professor in the Humanities and Curator of Photography
William E. Williams
Associate Professor Ying Li
Assistant Professor Hee Sook Kim, Chair
Visiting Associate Professor Marianne Weil
Visiting Assistant Professor Gerald Cyrus
Major Requirements
Fine arts majors are required to concentrate in either painting, drawing, sculpture, photography or printmaking: Fine Arts 101-123, two different 200-level courses outside the area of concentration; two 200-level courses and one 300-level course within that area; three art history courses to be taken at Bryn Mawr College, and Senior Departmental Studies 499. For majors intending to do graduate work, it is strongly recommended that they take an additional 300-level studio course within their area of concentration and an additional art history course at Bryn Mawr College.
Courses
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101 Arts Foundation-Drawing HU
Y.Li
A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no experience in drawing. Students will first learn how to see with a painter's eye. Composition, perspective, proportion, light, form, picture plane and other fundamentals will be studied. We will work from live models, still life, landscape, imagination and masterwork. Prerequisite: Over enrollment will be determined by lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class.102 Arts Foundation-Drawing HU
M.Weil
Prerequisite: Overenrollment will be determined by lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class.103 Arts Foundation-Photography HU
G.Cyrus
Prerequisite: Overenrollment will be determined by lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class.104 Arts Foundation-Sculpture HU
M.Weil
Prerequisite: Overenrollment will be determined by lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class.106 Arts Foundation-Drawing HU
M.Weil
Prerequisite: Overenrollment will be determined by lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class.107 Arts Foundation-Painting HU
Y.Li
A seven-week introductory course for students with little or no experience in painting. Students will be first introduced to the handling of basic tools, materials and techniques. We will study the color theory such as interaction of color, value & color, warms & cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, surface quality. We will work from live model, still life, landscape, imagination and masterwork. Prerequisite: Preference to declared majors who need Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for the same Foundations course at least once without success. Preference will also be given to students with Foundations-Drawing experience. Overenrollment will be determined by lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class.108 Arts Foundation-Photography HU
G.Cyrus
Prerequisite: Overenrollment will be determined by lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class. Course is a repeat of 103D/108H.109 Arts Foundation-Sculpture HU
M.Weil
Prerequisite: Preference to declared majors who need Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for the same Foundations course at least once without success.120 Foundation Printmaking: Silkscreen HU
H.Kim
A seven-week course covering various techniques and approaches to silkscreen, including painterly monoprint, stencils, direct drawing and photo-silkscreen. Emphasizing the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement. Prerequisite: Preference to declared majors who need Foundations, and to those who have entered the lottery for the same Foundations course at least once without success. Lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class.121 Foundation Printmaking: Relief Printing HU
Staff
A seven-week course covering various techniques and approaches to the art of the woodcut and the linocut, emphasizing the study of design principles and the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement. Prerequisite: Preference to declared majors who need Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for the same Foundations course at least once without success.122 Foundation Printmaking: Lithography HU
H.Kim
A seven-week course covering various techniques and approaches to Lithography, including stone and plate preparation, drawing materials, editioning, black and white printing. Emphasizing the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement. Prerequisite: Preference to declared majors who need Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for the same Foundations course at least once without success.123 Foundation Printmaking: Etching HU
Staff
A seven-week course covering various techniques and approaches to intaglio printmaking including monotypes, soft and hard ground, line, aquatint, chine collage and viscosity printing. Emphasizing the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement. Prerequisite: Preference to declared majors who need Foundations, and to students who have entered the lottery for the same Foundations course at least once without success.124 Foundation Printmaking: Monotype HU
H.Kim
Basic printmaking techniques in Monotype medium. Painterly methods, direct drawing, stencils, brayer techniques for beginners in printmaking will be taught. Color, form, shape, and somposition in 2-D format will be explored. Individual and group critiques will be employed. Prerequisite: Preference to declared majors who need Foundations, and to those who have entered the lottery for the same Foundations course at least once without success. Lottery conducted by Prof. on the first day of class.216 History of Photography from 1839 to the Present HU
W.Williams
An introductory survey course about the history of photography from its beginnings in 1839 to the present. The goal is to understand how photography has altered perceptions about the past, created a new art form, and become a hallmark of modern society. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing217 The History of African-American Art from 1619 to the Present HU (Cross-listed in Peace and Conflict Studies and African and Africana Studies)
W.Williams
A survey course documenting and interpreting the development and history of African-American Art from 1619 to present day. Representative works from the art and rare book collections will supplement course readings. Prerequisite: Any HART Course, 200 level ARTS Studio Course, Anthropology of Art, AFST course. (Satisfies the social justice requirement.)218 Chinese Calligraphy As An Art Form HU (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies)
Y.Li
This course combines studio practice and creating art projects with slide lectures, readings, and museum visits. Students will study the art of Chinese Calligraphy, and its connection with Western art. No Chinese language required.223 Printmaking: Materials and Techniques: Etching HU
H.Kim
Concepts and techniques of B/W & Color Intaglio. Line etching, aquatint, soft and hard ground, chin-colle techniques will be explored as well as visual concepts. Developing personal statements will be encouraged. Individual and group critiques will be employed. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor by review of portfolio224 Computer and Printmaking HU
H.Kim
Computer-generated images and printmaking techniques. Students will create photographic, computer processed, and directly drawn images on lithographic polyester plates and zinc etching plates. Classwork will be divided between the computer lab and the printmaking studio to create images using both image processing software and traditional printmaking methods, including lithography, etching, and silk-screen. Broad experimental approaches to printmaking and computer techniques will be encouraged. Individual and group critiques will be employed. Prerequisite: An intro printmaking course or permission by portfolio review.225 Lithography: Material and Techniques HU
H.Kim231 Drawing (2-D): All Media HU
Y.Li
Students are encouraged to experiment with various drawing media and to explore the relationships between media, techniques and expression. Each student will strive to develop a personal approach to drawing while addressing fundamental issues of pictorial space, structure, scale, and rhythm. Students will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course includes drawing projects, individual and group crits, slide lectures, museum and gallery visits. Prerequisite: Fine Arts Foundations or consent.233 Painting: Materials and Techniques HU
Y.Li
Students are encouraged to experiment with various painting techniques and materials in order to develop a personal approach to self-expression. We will emphasize form, color, texture, and the relationship among them; influences of various techniques upon the expression of a work; the characteristics and limitations of different media. Students will work from observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. Course includes painting projects, individual and group crits, slide lectures, museum and gallery visits. Prerequisite: Fine Arts Foundations or consent.241 Drawing (3-D): All Media HU
M.Weil
In essence the same problems as in Fine Arts 231A or B. However, some of the drawing media are clay modeling in half-hour sketches; the space and design concepts solve three-dimensional problems. Part of the work is done from life model. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts Foundations or consent.243 Sculpture: Materials and Techniques HU
M.Weil
The behavior of objects in space, the concepts and techniques leading up to the form in space, and the characteristics and limitations of the various sculpture media and their influence on the final work; predominant but not exclusive use of clay modeling techniques: fundamental casting procedures. Part of the work is done from life model. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts Foundations or consent.251 Photography: Materials and Techniques HU
W.Williams
Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach to photography. Emphasis is placed on their creation of black and white photographic prints, which express plastic form, emotions, and ideas about the physical world in chemical and in digital formats. Work is critiqued weekly to give critical insights into editing of individual student work and their use of the appropriate black and white photographic materials necessary to giver coherence to that work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum exhibitions, lectures, a critical and theoretical analysis of photographs from the permanent collection and a research project supplement the weekly critiques. In addition students produce a handmade archival box to house their work, which is organized into a loose sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 103 or equivalent.253 The Theory and Practice of Conceptual Art HU (Cross-listed in Independent College Programs)
J.Muse
In this course, the specific mid-20th C movement called Conceptual Art will be explored, as will its progenitors and its progeny. Students will study the founding manifestos, the canonical works and their critical appraisals, as well as develop tightly structured studio practica to embody the former research. The course invites artists, writers, activists, & cultural thinkers, those who want to know what it is to make things, spaces, situations, communities, allies, & trouble--without necessarily knowing how to draw, paint, sculpt, photograph, videotape, or film.260 Photography: Materials and Techniques HU
W.Williams
Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach to photography. Emphasis is placed on their creation of color photographic prints, which express plastic form, emotions, and ideas about the physical world in chemical and in digital formats. Work is critiqued weekly to give critical insights into editing of individual student work and their use of the appropriate color photographic materials necessary to giver coherence to that work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum exhibitions, lectures, a critical and theoretical analysis of photographs from the permanent collection and a research project supplement the weekly critiques. In addition students produce a handmade archival box to house their work, which is organized into a loose sequence and mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite: Fine Arts Foundation or equivalent.321 Experimental Studio: Etching HU
H.Kim
Concepts and techniques of Color Intaglio. Combined printmaking methods as well as solid foundations in printmaking techniques will be encouraged. Personal statements and coherent body of works will be produced during the course. Individual and group critiques will be employed. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor by review of portfolio.322 Experimental Studio: Printmaking: Lithography HU
H.Kim
Concepts and techniques of Color Lithography. Combined printmaking methods as well as solid foundations in printmaking techniques will be encouraged. Personal statements and coherent body of works will be produced during the course. Individual and group critiques will be employed. Prerequisite: One course in printmaking or consent.326 Experimental Studio: Lithography HU
H.Kim327 Experimental Studio: Lithography and Intaglio HU
H.Kim
Concepts and techniques of black and white and color lithography. The development of a personal direction is encouraged. Prerequisite: A foundation drawing course and Foundation Printmaking, or permission of instructor331 Experimental Studio: Drawing HU
Y.Li
Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses, to develop further their individual approach to drawing. Students are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique character of drawing in making their own art. Completed projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. Class will include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists' lecture and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide talk and discussion of either his or her own work or the work of artists who influenced him or her. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 231A or B, or consent.333 Experimental Studio: Painting HU
Y.Li
Students will build on the work done in 200 level courses to develop further their individual approach to painting. Students are expected to create projects that demonstrate the unique character of their chosen media in making their own art. Completed projects will be exhibited at the end of semester. Class will include weekly crits, museum visits, visiting artists' lecture and crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide talk and discussion of either his or her own work or the work of artists who influenced him or her. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 223A or B, or consent.341 Experimental Studio: Drawing HU
M.Weil
Prerequisite: Fine Arts 241A or B, or consent.343 Experimental Studio: Sculpture HU
M.Weil
In this studio course the student is encouraged to experiment with ideas and techniques with the purpose of developing a personal expression. It is expected that the student will already have a sound knowledge of the craft and aesthetics of sculpture and is at a stage where personal expression has become possible. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 243A or B, or consent of instructor351 Experimental Studio: Photography HU
W.Williams
Students produce an extended sequence of their work in either book or exhibition format using black and white or color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the student's work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented by an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture books and related critical texts guide students to the completion of their course work. This two semester course consists of the book project first semester and the exhibition project second semester. At the end of each semester the student may exhibit his/her project. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 251A and 260B460 Teaching Assistant HU
H.Kim,Staff480 Independent Study HU
H.Kim
This course gives the advanced student the opportunity to experiment with concepts and ideas and to explore in depth his or her talent. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.499 Senior Departmental Studies HU
H.Kim,Y.Li,W.Williams,M.Weil
The student reviews the depth and extent of experience gained, and in so doing creates a coherent body of work expressive of the student's insights and skills. At the end of the senior year the student is expected to produce a show of his or her work. Prerequisite: Senior Majors