Art Studio 226AR - Abstraction to Representation

Students in this course will explore pictorial;strategies that were first developed by abstract;painters but have provoked significant shifts;within representational painting as well-such as;color field painting, process painting, and;conceptual abstraction. After examining the;history of such approaches, students will use;them to develop personal projects that may be;abstract, representational, or somewhere in;between. Special attention will be paid to the;metaphorical potential of materials and to;developing personal approaches to color.

Prereq: ARTST-120 or ARTST-131.