| source University of Washington (X) |
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department Art (X) |
Introduction to recurring themes and practices in the visual arts. Moves beyond medium-based categories, surveying a diverse range of issues that motivate artists and create content in contemporary art. Examines the importance and influence of the visual arts in the larger context of contemporary culture and society.
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Drawing studied as the means of creating a coherent visual and expressive statement. Development of ability in the fundamentals of drawing: line, tone, and gesture, theory and practice of linear and aerial perspective, and basic concepts of composition. Offered: AWSp.
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Through use of a variety of materials, three-dimensional fundamentals are investigated for formal and conceptual concerns as they apply to the visual arts. Offered: AWSp.
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Studio-based class introducing students, through particular studio practice of individual instructors, to methods of visual awareness, principles of organization, and approaches to visual and conceptual observation. Relationship between art history and contemporary art practice. Artistic medium in each class varies with instructor expertise. Offered: AWSpS.
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Presentation of process through which artists discover and translate ideas, feelings, and concerns into images or objects. Use of a wide variety of methods and approaches, from traditional to technological, to promote visual expression. Discussion and critiques leading toward better understanding the creative process.
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Examination of color as distinct visual phenomenon with investigations of its practical, theoretical, and illusionary aspects. Various media and materials employed in exercises and compositions that demonstrate properties of color structure, symbolism, and perception and their potential applications to art and design.
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Exploration, study, and application of thematic concepts not generally associated with traditional three-dimensional art forms. Investigation of themes such as installation, performance, public, and socio-political art.
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Introduction to theory, techniques, and processes of still photography. Projects stress the visual and creative potential of the medium. (Students must provide a cameral with lens, shutter, and aperture controls.) Offered: AWSpS.
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Introduction to fundamentals of three-dimensional design process. Both practical and conceptual skills explored and demonstrated though assigned project or projects.
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Provides a general introduction to industrial design. Develops students knowledge through lectures, readings, and studio projects that focus on the history of the discipline and the processes of brainstorming, ideation, skill building, problem solving, and professional presentation used in the creation of design. Includes participation by guest designers.
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The rudiments of visual structure and organization in two-dimensional design. Covers formal principles of composition with an emphasis on design processes and serves as the groundwork for subsequent design courses. Required for application to the Visual Communication Design major. Offered: A.
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Builds basic drawing skills, develops understanding of primary concepts which relate to drawing and develops an understanding of the grammar or syntax of two-dimensional language. Students move beyond their current knowledge and abilities and link new skills, concepts, and understandings to creative expressing. Offered: AWSp.
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Introduction to handbuilding; kiln firing and glazing processes. Examination of contemporary sculpture in clay.
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Introduction to wheel throwing, glazing, and kiln firing processes. Examination of contemporary vessel form in clay.
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Explores photography as a means of visualizing ideas in the context of learning in the field of documentary photography. Includes a series of assignments that consider technical and formal issues, critical thinking, concept development, and experimentation. Offered: S.
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Concentrates on developing skills used to communicate ideas that exist in the imagination. Focuses on study of design drawing history and development of basic skills necessary for ideation, exploration, communication, explanation. Prepares students to visualize and discuss ideas rapidly and professionally. For design majors only. Offered: A.
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Comprehensive survey of the ideas, events, and individuals that determined the design of information, objects, culture, and commerce across societies. Examines the social, political and cultural contexts that shape graphic design and the ideologies and relationships of similar movement in art and architecture. Late 19th Century - contemporary issues.
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Develops understanding of and sensibility to typographic details used to create effective communication. Focus moves from understanding letter forms that make up words to the complexities of developing phrases, sentences, and short paragraphs with multiple levels of hierarchical meaning. Prerequisite: ART 207. Offered: W.
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Introduces key factors in the theory and practice of creating and participating in collaborative projects. Focuses on creating and participating in effective teams, understanding strengths and roles within teams, working through team issues, developing techniques for interdisciplinary problem solving. Prerequisite: ART 207.
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Imagery as essential to visual communication. Ways that meaning and representation in images profoundly impact understanding. Focus on expanding image making, ideation skills, developing experimental visual processes to create meaning, finding engaging and imaginative solutions. Exploration of symbolism, abstraction, metaphors. Prerequisite: ART 207. Offered: Sp.
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Introduces design methodologies including ergonomics, participatory design, user research, ethnography, inclusive design, usability testing. Focuses on design methods leading to more humane technology, providing platforms for innovation, reframing problems in unique ways, explaining complex information, exploring alternatives, visualizing and communicating solutions. Prerequisite: ART 207. Offered: .
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Explores the structure of two- and three-dimensional textile forms. Students work with floor looms, computer-aided looms, as well as working directly with materials.
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Basic techniques of dying, printing, and embellishing, with emphasis on their conceptual uses in art making.
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Studio projects examining the expressive and conceptual uses of alternative photographic materials and techniques. Prerequisite: ART 140. Offered: A.
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Introduction to contemporary printing methods such as monotype, monoprint, stencil, and photocopy. Survey of historical and current approaches to the art of printmaking.
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