Description
NOTE: For Painting majors, elective instructor cannot be the same as studio instructor.
This is a course in which students will use portraiture and self-portraiture as genres to consider identity, emotional/psychological states and witness. Students will draw and paint from the model in order to develop skills and sensibilities necessary to explore selfhood and empathy. Students will produce one self-portrait and portrait a week responding to prompts, questions and other artist’s work. This course is meant to expand upon their major studio activities while providing students a more focused engagement with the portrait as a subject. Portraiture and the Self will ask students to consider how they are seen, see and what is communicated by our everyday performances of self as well as those of others.