2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin

ART 118 Introduction to Painting

3 hours 

This course develops students' ability to paint while fostering their understanding of painting as a significant form of communication with its own history and theoretical foundation. Students will explore color, structure, space, form, narrative and concept. Class time will be divided between painting exercises and projects, critiques, demonstrations, and discussions of the historical and theoretical contexts in which painting can be understood and analyzed.

Credits

3

Notes

This course satisfies the John Jay College Option: Communications area of the Gen Ed Program.