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VIS Visual Arts CoursesVIS120H1
Visual concepts introduces students to a wide range of topics situated in Modernism and Post-modernism that inform current art practice and critical discourse. The course investigates post-1970 art practice through the diverse societal, cultural and political influences of post-modernism. VIS130H1
A studio based course that employs intensive and diverse investigation of drawing strategies that stress the formulation and communication of visual ideas.NOTE enrolment instructions in Handbook for this course! VIS140H1
An introductory studio course with an emphasis on drawing. Issues of both representation and conceptualization are explored through studio and field projects employing drawing media, including watercolour, utilizing Siena and Tuscan landscape. (Taught in Siena only) VIS201H1
This is a hands-on course that deals with technical and theoretical issues of painting in the late 20th Century. The act of painting and the relevance of painting are stressed through both historical and current issues. This course is very project oriented. VIS202H1
This course is designed to introduce students to Video Art production and post-production techniques. Students conceive, shoot and edit a video tape in a hands-on-manner under the guidance of the instructor. The production of the Video Art project occurs within the framework of seminars, exhibitions and current critical writing on issues particular to Video Art. (A studio fee of $50 payable with tuition.) VIS203H1
Principles and practices of Relief Printmaking. Projects in single and multiple block edition production. (A studio fee of $60 is payable with tuition.) VIS204H1
A studio introduction to the formal and expressive potentials of three dimensional form. Three projects, centred around broad thematic parameters, focus on the concepts, techniques and processes involved in the realization of sculptural form. Each of these projects are further defined in terms of additive, subtractive and constructive methods. (A studio fee of $60 is payable with tuition.) VIS205H1
Studio-based projects explore drawing practice in the late 20th century. Materials and approaches both bear witness to continuity and respond to changing contemporary cultural issues. (A studio fee of $25.00 is payable with tuition.) VIS206H1
Popular culture in the Post-modern era is the central idea here. Artistic strategies in cultural appropriation and other post-modern concerns are discussed and used in the production of studio projects. Projects illustrate a particular situation and also index components of popular culture in a consumer society. VIS207H1
This course asks the question: where does the "city" sit in your imagination? Through individual projects, discussions and critiques we explore the idea of the city both as a personal reality and as a metaphor. An initial written statement by each student provides the framework for two subsequent projects. The goal of the course is for you to locate and articulate your relationship to the idea of the city in expressive forms. (A studio fee of $50 is payable with tuition.) VIS208H1
Practical and aesthetic concerns in the evolution of Performance against the backdrop of critical and historical perspectives. Students explore a range of Performance possibilities, alone and collaboratively to develop both intellectual and physical skills which will inform both their performance work and their view of art. Seminars focus on critical aspects of Performance. VIS209H1
The emergence and incorporation of the feminist perspective in current art theory and practice form the basis of lectures, seminars, projects and essays that focus on language, photography and other mediums that signal the shift to a variety of strategies shaping art in the post-modern era. VIS210H1
Theories and dialogue informing the practice of art in the 20th century are studied and form the basis of studio projects. The goal is to encourage cross-discipline research to inform your thinking about art and the making of art. VIS211H1
This course addresses, through theoretical and practical projects, the principles and sensibilities of paper-based expression, including drawing, with an emphasis on the interaction of its practice with contemporary image making and technology. VIS212H1
Colour may be claimed as the property of all: for most everyone sees, uses, and knows colour. Studying colour takes us into areas of humanities and sciences. This study, through lectures, projects and readings aims to develop a student's understanding and use of colour. VIS213H1
At the heart of form is movements; metamorphosis, transformation, regeneration. While central to our study is form as it manifests in visual art, the dialectic between matter and form of object, nature and culture continually places this study in a broader interdisciplinary context. VIS214H1
This course explores pertinent issues of appropriating painted images along with their content. VIS215H1
A seminar based course that confronts questions of accessibility to painting in contemporary culture. Issues of alienation through gender, sexual orientation, and race meet the legacy of painting. VIS216H1
The life and work of one of this century's most influential, significant sculptors, manipulator of paper, stone, light, space, water, movement and time is studied and assessed as a bridge between east and west. VIS301H1
Creative projects are introduced to develop an aesthetic with social and political relevance, with specific emphasis on painting. VIS302H1
Emphasis on pre-production, production and post-production of a video project. Students script, shoot and edit a tape through rough cut to fine cut. Class discussions focus on all stages of the work-in-progress. Strategies for distribution, exhibition and funding are examined. (A studio fee of $50 is payable with tuition.) VIS303H1
An introduction through studio projects to the principle forms of intaglio printmaking, including etching and collagraph. (A studio fee of $60 is payable with tuition.) VIS304H1
The body as the site of personal and social values. In consultation with the instructor individual projects related to the body are approached from a variety of directions and through a wide-range of sculptural means in a working studio environment. There is no pre-defined aesthetic or political position in this course. The question we are asking is this: what is the body at this time and how can you express your perception of it? (A studio fee of $50.00 is payable with tuition.) VIS305H1
Time and place in drawing and painting. This course provides a discourse with which to continue the evolution of the students' work in drawing and painting. VIS306H1
How does context affect the creation and perception of visual art? To what extent can one engage and incorporate selected aspects of a chosen context within a work of art? How are contextual fictions established? How do installations define the viewer? Does site specific art necessitate a narrative structure? These are some of the questions considered in this course. Students prepare an analysis of an existing installation work and realize two on-campus installations. (A studio fee of $50 is payable with tuition.) VIS307H1
Applying art to the borders of other disciplines or issues within the university community, students develop projects with the objective of opening spaces for discourse: art as a transgressive device. VIS308H1
An examination of concepts that provided the impetus for the interrogation of Modernism, beginning with the historic rupture between photography and painting. VIS309H1
Lectures, seminars and studio projects address issues of transformation, commodity, ownership and the singularity of images through the intersection of photo-based and processed iconography. VIS310H1
A lecture and seminar based course with a studio project, examining plastic, social and gender politics in contemporary painting. VIS311H1
Students propose and produce projects in media that are offered in Visual Studies. (A studio fee of $50 in video and sculpture only is payable with tuition.) VIS312H1
An investigation of the history and process of collage in the 20th century. From cubism to photoshot, collage remains an integral component of visual expression. VIS313H1
Ideas about the body are challenged by developments in technology, culture and politics. This course studies the metamorphosis of gender, age, and culture through lectures, projects, and readings. VIS314Y1
Projects encourage the development of visual forms appropriate to individual responses to Siena's religious and cultural heritage and complex medieval iconography. Works produced include drawing and painting, photography and other media. (Taught in Siena only) VIS315H1
This course offers a critical exploration of our culture's infatuation with the machine as an extension of the body. The canoe and the motorcycle are examines as icons that have captivated the imagination of designers, artists and curators. VIS316H1
The course examines censorship as the enforcement of moral or political norms. In their time artists such as Picasso, Klee and Max Ernst were banned or banished as degenerate outsiders. Works by urban graffitti artists, visionairies/dreamers are examined in various contexts. VIS317H1
Timeless markers and propoganda and props provide material for the study of the primordial human need to set memorials that attempt to defeat human transience. Successful reclamation of such spaces are investigated, proposals for problems advanced. VIS401H1
Taken in conjunction with VIS402H Thesis Project, students develop project(s) over the course of the academic year with studio, textual and critical analysis forming the components of the project. Class discussions with faculty. VIS402H1
Students realize projects embarked upon in VIS 401H Thesis Text and Critique. Class discussions with faculty. VIS403H1
A variety of projects developed in various media with a strong interdisciplinary focus. VIS404H1
Individual advanced projects, including texts, that are subject to group critiques. |
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