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Apr 23, 2024
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ARTH 198 - Art and Writing 3 hours
This course is a workshop for artists. In it, we will explore artworks, artist statements, and writings about art-art historical, critical, and creative-to inspire our own art. For instance, we will analyze various poems about Grecian urns (including the famous Keats ode), research the qualities of Grecian ceramics, and then use this knowledge to create artwork on the subject. In another exercise, after studying minimalist artist Donald Judd, we will use his “Specific Objects” essay as a basis for creating a version of a minimalist work. Other projects will use actual text as the basis of the work (for instance, using “erasure” to create a work uniting image and text) and facilitate creation. We will also do simple collaborative work, such as a group drip painting, a group poem (in which each student writes a sentence about the same subject and we combine them into one poem). Students will be responsible for presenting information on at least one artist and/or writer or art/writing subject during the semester. Ideally, the final project will be a collaborative work between pairs of artist and writers. A final portfolio of work by each individual will be due at the end of class. The course includes gallery/museum visit(s), art reviews, and some collaboration with a writing class in the English department. Although focused on visual art and creative writing, we will also look at other arts-such as music, theater, and film-in the course as well. Since the course is meant to be generative rather than critique-oriented, there will be little in-class revising, but students are encouraged to revise and rework their pieces with the input of peers and faculty for the final portfolio. No prior art or art history knowledge is necessary to enroll in this course.
This course satisfies the fine arts core area requirement.
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