ART.4006 Assemblage and Collage: The Art of Media Mixing
This course will explore the tradition and techniques of assemblage and collage. Students will work on flat two-dimensional surfaces as well as physical elevation of three-dimensional planes. The course will emphasize both recognizable and abstract images. We will focus on artists such as Arp, Bearden, Braque, Cornell, Dove, Ernst, Marisol. Motherwell, Nevelson, Rauschenberg and Schwitters as exemplars and aesthetic inspiration. Students will keep a sketch pad/journal. The students will be expected to complete five portfolio quality artworks.