Richard Hull

Painting Practice is an introductory painting course offering. The curriculum addresses basic skills as related to a painting studio practice. Topics and curricular goals include material, facility and technique, space and color, as well as concept. This course is a prerequisite for all Multi-level Painting, Figure Painting and Advanced Painting Studio classes.

An advanced investigation of drawing as an organizing tool for thought and personal image exploration. Students work with both assigned and independently conceived problems. Topic: Form Invention - The exploration of representation strategies beyond direct perception and conventional visual modes. Procedures will include exaggeration and omission, stylization and abstraction, composite and hybrid forms, secondary and double images, visual puns and rhymes, and multi-perspectival representation. Examples will be drawn from the span of art history, East and West and from contemporary practice and visual culture. There will be studio problems and exercises, sketchbook assignments, individual projects, slide presentations, and museum visits.

This studio class will be an exploration of the premise that all paintings are abstract. Whether an image is found and formed from observation or imagination, that image is ultimately an abstraction of its source. We will address issues of Abstraction, Representation, and Conceptualism. Shape, color, composition and intent--no matter what the image--will be the class's focus.

This is a studio class. There will be no readings. Examples of other artist work will be given in response to the individual student's work.

Every assignment is based on the students own work. All the assignments are surprises. The students will work a lot, some make more work than others.

In this class we will go to the galleries in the museum every week, looking at and talking about how paintings are made, focusing on the underlining pictorial structure: the way artist in the past created a pictorial tension that still give the paintings presence today despite what might seem to us as anachronistic subjects. We will spend the majority of the time in the studio working and hopefully applying what we learn in the museum to your paintings. There is no stylistic agenda for this class: It's not what it is; it's what it does.

Studio Projects:Independent studio work under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureatee studio students receive a list of scheduled advisors. Writing Projects: Independent tutorial work with the guidance and encouragement of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureate writing students receive a list of scheduled advisors. The student registers for 6 credit hours of Post-Baccalaureate Projects during each semester of study.

Studio Projects:Independent studio work under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureatee studio students receive a list of scheduled advisors. Writing Projects: Independent tutorial work with the guidance and encouragement of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureate writing students receive a list of scheduled advisors. The student registers for 6 credit hours of Post-Baccalaureate Projects during each semester of study.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.