Spring 2003

Course Objectives

Exposure to experimental forms of image making:  computer, monoprint, collage, calligraphy.

Historical analysis, lecture demonstrations and printing assignments prepare the students to explore the creative potential of multi-media.

The final goal for this course is to have each student complete three assignments which will explore experimental forms of image making utilizing a diverse source of technical and aesthetic references including electronic media, photography, monoprints, collagraphy and 3-D construction.

Overview of the course to include a discussion of the different processes to be explored, materials, course requirements, assignments and attendance policy.  Lecture on traditional forms of printmaking to include examples of each.

Lecture/History of the collage, to include Braque, Schwitters, Picasso, Rauschenberg
Lecture/Discussion of the works of Warhol, Motherwell, Dine, Lichtenstein

Demonstration on collagraphy – exploration of all the three-dimensional applications
Construction of two 3-D printing elements

Demonstration of a range of printing techniques including Stanley William Hayter’s viscosity printing

Demonstration of photographic techniques to include offset rubbings

Exploration of electronic media/examination of various software including Photoshop

Demonstration of the monoprint.  Explore the use of inks, paint and drawings on a Plexiglas surface.

Discussion and critique of student ideas for the three assignments

Studio time.  Students will begin working with multi-media

Studio time

Studio time

Class critique of first project

Studio time

Students continue to work on assignments

Class critique of second assignment

READING LIST for ART 587

1. Lasting Impressions:  Lithography as Art, ed. Pat Gilmour.  Philadelphia, PA:  University of Pennsylvania Press.
2. Cliché-verre:  Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed, A Survey of the Medium from 1839 to the Present.  Elizabeth Glossman, Marilyn F. Symmes.  Detroit Institute of Arts, 1980.
3. 150 Years of Artists’ Lithographs by Felix Massey, 1903-1953, William Heinemann, LTD, London.
4. Andy Warhol Portraits: Portraits of the Seventies and Eighties, Henry, Geldzahler and Robert Rosenblum.  Published by Anthony d’Offay Gallery London in Association with Thames and Hudson.
5. Robert Rauschenberg:  The Silkscreen Paintings 1962-64 by Roni Fienstein, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY in association with Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown & Col, Boston, Toronto, London.
6. The Prints of Robert Motherwell, by Stephanie Teranzio, a Catalogue Raisonne 1943-1984, by Dorothy C. Belknop, Hudson Hills Press, NY.
7. Jim Dine Prints:  1970-1977, published in association with the William College Artists-in-Residency Program by Harper & Row Publishers, NY.
8. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, Mary Lee Corlett, Hudson Hills Press, NY.
9. About Prints, by Stanley William Hayter, London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1962.
10. New Ways of Gravure.  Stanley William Hayter (revised edition), London, NY, Oxford University Press, 1966.
11. Collage, English, Florian Rodari Collage:  pasted, cut and torn papers, NY, Skira/Rizzoli, 1988.
12. The Complete Printmaker, by John Ross, Clare Romasso, Tim Ross, the Free Press, 1990.
13. The Complete Collagraph, Clare Romasso, John Ross, the Free Press, NY, 1980.
 

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