Instructor:  John Maggio
Office:  257 McIver by appointment

Email:  jtmaggio@uncg.edu

Fall 2002

Course Objectives: 

To understand and form an abstract visual language.  This underlying visual language functions in visual art much like vocabulary and syntax in writing.  Through it, students give structure and expression to their work regardless of subject.

Graduate Drawing will be based on observation, movement, memory and invention.

A system of drawing from elaborate interior props utilizing the entire space in the classroom will present students with a series of options.  Students will be asked to build subtle, residual layers of memory as they move around the interior set-up and draw from different perspectives in the room.  The interior subject matter will be presented in such a way that students will be literally inside the space they are drawing.

Each individual will be asked to develop a personal dialogue with the information presented, to reevaluate and reinterpret the visual material.  The focus will be on each student creating a personal form of visual expression through invention and logic.  Students will have the opportunity to carefully explore personal concepts through interpretation of conceptual, formal and practical issues.

Through this series of classroom exercises students will learn the underlying language of vision.  This language of vision includes the visual elements, their organization and the resulting visual effects.  Students will also be asked to form in writing an independent drawing project that should reflect study in the classroom and concepts developed independently in their studies.

Individual and group critiques will take place on a regular basis throughout the semester.

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