Art 10D - 2D Foundation Winter 2020 - Week 1

Welcome

2D - Definitions + Myths

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Introduces students to the fundamental principles of two-dimensional art and design and focuses on analyzing the concepts of line, color, shape, value, space, form, unity, balance, scale, proportion, texture, and emphasis to be used to express complex ideas.

Express complex ideas = Make Meaning

Interpreting Arts + Media (IM) GE

Interpreting Arts and Media (IM code: one 5-credit course or equivalent). Courses that carry the IM GE designation explore the complex ways in which information of all kinds is represented by visual, auditory, or kinesthetic means, or through performance. Contemporary life bombards us with visual and auditory media, often in the form of advertising or advocacy. These courses build in-depth understanding of one or more forms of artistic media: that is, media in which non-textual materials play primary roles. They offer skills in the practice, analysis, interpretation, and/or history of one or more of these media…

…as well as the ability to analyze the means by which these media encode and convey information.

Big Course Ideas

1. Fundamentals - terms, definitions + concepts

2. Origins / Histories

3. Making - Practice with Basic Techniques

4. Current Applications - Cross Disciplinary

5. Societal Impacts / Intersections

Course Topics

Drawing + Illustration

Photography, Frame + Color

Collage, Texture + Remixed Images

Text As Image

Printing + Reproduction - Communication Design

Shape, Symbol + Iconography Design

Mapping + Data Visualizations