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Drawing
Drawing at La Guardia functions on several levels: Beginning, Intermediate and
Life Drawing. Beginning features work by many students who are non Art Majors and take it as an elective. while Life Drawing, or Figure Drawing as it is known elsewhere, is mostly Art Majors with a smattering of non-majors.
Intermediate is virtually all Art Majors and is the most “experimental” of drawing classes exploring abstraction, installation, collage and media that borders on painting. As you can see, this is all highly charged work! |
Painting
Painting, like Drawing has a beginning and Intermediate component with the beginning class made up of a mixture of majors and non-majors concentrating mostly on representational work, while the Intermediate class gets into larger scale, new media, trompe l’oel, and even site specific paintings. This is classy and high level work.
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Color Theory
Color Theory is practically a Science course, dealing with Visual, Perception, the Brain, Light , how colors exist and function, and how the Artists uses this knowledge to manipulate color in their own work. Such things as camouflage, optical illusions, and additive versus subtractive color make this work “mind boggling” and unique.
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Design
Design is a visual problem solving course that explores the Basic Elements of Art and Design (line, form, composition, color, the building blocks of ALL Design and Architecture. This is one strand of the Double Helix of Art and design Studies, it is one of the Bauhaus developed, primary Design courses with Life Drawing, Color, Form and Structure, and 3D being the others. |
3D Design
Is problem solving in three dimensions. The work deals with concepts exploring three dimensional form as it relates to structural integrity, architecture, form that follows function, and all with a nod toward the inherent beauty of perfection in the marriage of the practical and the visual. 3D is not only a foundation for Industrial Design, but for Sculpture as well.
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Sculpture
Sculpture both beginning and Intermediate utilizes materials and form that are unique to working in 3 dimensions, and is the class that takes the most students by surprise,Art majors or not. This is the art class where preconceptions go right out of the window and where the playing field is levelest. Work tends from the traditional to the conceptual, with a bit of Video thrown in to boot. |
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Computer Art
Is two dimensional Design and Color using the computer as the medium. Problems are based on everything from E-Portfolios, magazines, posters, CD covers, etc. to computer Art for Arts’ sake in the form of Printmaking. This work is almost exclusively done on the Macintosh computer. |
Life Drawing
Known historically as “Figure Drawing”, Life Drawing especially concentrates on drawing the Human figure from life. It also involves “other” drawing from life such as the landscape, still-life, self portraits, and any other subject that can be drawn from direct observation.
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Print Making
Printmaking involves work that can be printed in multiples known as editions. Here we concentrate on linoleum and wood block, and the occasional relief print. The multiple historically made it possible for the artist to create works that were inexpensive and hence easier to sell. Printmaking has since, become an Art form in itself.
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