Art

This class will serve as an introduction to digital art, presenting students with the opportunity to learn about the computer as a tool for art making. Much of our time will be spent covering the basics of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Using the software specified above, we will become acquainted with how the computer and design software can be used to present complex visual and conceptual ideas which can be used to affect social and cultural exchange. Throughout the semester students will become acquainted with image manipulation in popular culture and some of the contemporary themes associated with digital art. Non-art majors are absolutely welcomed and no previous art experience is required.

This course is an overview of Modern Art from the mid-19th century through the 20th century in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and America. In weekly lectures and discussions we will examine major artistic movements such as Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism among others. Taking a social art historical approach, throughout the course, we will consider artists and artworks within both their social, economic and political contexts and their relationships with cultural formations such as modernism, modernity and the avant-garde. We will focus on modern innovations in painting, sculpture and architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as address developments after War World II, when changing ideas, global cultural shifts and the emergence of new artistic directions have provoked and challenged the redefinition of Western oriented art and culture.

This lecture/lab is an introduction to the concepts and techniques necessary to record, edit, mix, and master quality audio for cinema, radio, television, and the web. Emphasis on basic audio signal flow; the evolution of audio art and technology; and how dialog, sound effects, ambience, and music serve the narrative process.

This course will prepare students for their Senior Exhibition and design a portfolio for entering the job market. Students will curate and prepare their art work according to professional exhibition standards under the careful guidance of a faculty member. Students will be involved with the marketing of their work for the senior exhibition, as well as the job market. Implicitly, this course will prepare McDaniel Art Students for art related jobs, graduate school, and future professional exhibitions.