Intro Painting: Strategies of Abstraction

3 units

This course explores various strategies for creating abstract paintings. Students will develop their own themes through diverse approaches including chance operation, diagrammatic, materials and process-based abstraction. Abstraction in the expanded field will be explored including hybrid digital techniques and non-traditional support structures. Readings and discussions in the theory and history of abstraction will complement these practical approaches by addressing topics including aesthetics, non-Western abstraction, the modernist abstract canon and historical exclusion of artists and approaches in the field of abstract art.