Art Studio 280NP - Narrative Painting
Fall
2019
01
4.00
Jacob Rhoads
MW 01:30PM-04:00PM
Mount Holyoke College
107845
Art 301
jrhoads@mtholyoke.edu
In the past few years, many contemporary painters have shown renewed interest in one of painting's oldest functions -- telling stories. Students in this course will first explore historical forms of narrative painting before considering its many uses today: to advance political agendas, to reimagine or recover histories, to memorialize, to cultivate attention, to entertain, and to impart values. They will create paintings in relationship to historical and contemporary events, found texts, myths, literature, and stories they write themselves.
Prereq: ARTST-120 or ARTST-131.
For art studio majors only for the first week of pre-registration. Then open to all in the second week (the majors-only restriction will disappear during the second week). Students enrolled in this course will be responsible for some of the cost of course