ART 224 - Printmaking II: The Matrix and the Painterly Print

Credit Hours: 4
This course is designed to give students a first exposure to the print studio and to the exploration of printmaking and its intermedia relationship to drawing and painting. Traditional and contemporary print methods covered include those that combine a printmaking plate (the matrix) that can be printed multiple times with unique additions in painting and drawing. Print processes include intaglio, relief/woodcut and monotype. Students learn how to create drawings and designs that will effectively translate into black and white and color print images. Survey of historical and current approaches to the art of printmaking. Assigned readings, lectures and discussion, technical demonstration with experimentation and practice. Students develop studio projects that explore a diversity of subject matters using the visual languages of representation to abstraction.

Course Satisfies: This course satisfies the LEAD Curriculum requirement in the Arts.
Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisites.