Lewis & Clark Moodle

Overview of painting, sculpture, and architecture, produced in Europe and North America, focusing on, work created between the 14th and 21st centuries., Exploration of key theoretical problems and ways, of looking especially important to the history of, art. Multiple perspectives and methods of analysis, provided through lectures, scheduled discussions,, and museum fieldwork. Key works situated in a, variety of contexts: the role of art in religious, and memorial practices; the rise of the social, status of the artist; drawing as a form of, thinking; art as a tool of power and politics; art, as constructor of gender and identity; visual, narrative; the potentials and limitations of, various technical media; definitions of, "modernism"; the uses of "classicism."

Overview of painting, sculpture, and architecture, produced in Europe and North America, with a, focus on work created between the 14th and 21st, centuries. Exploration of key theoretical, problems and ways of looking especially important, to the history of art. Multiple perspectives and, methods of analysis provided through lectures,, scheduled discussions, and museum field work. Key, monuments situated in a variety of contexts: the, role of art in religious and memorial practices;, the rise of the social status of the artist;, drawing as a form of thinking; art as a tool of, power and politics; art as constructor of gender, and identity; visual narrative; the potentials, and limitations of various technical media;, definitions of "modernism"; the uses of, "classicism."

This beginning sculpture class focuses on materials and form as ways of understanding content and experience in sculpture. Equal time will be spent on making, research and discussion. Students will learn how to use a variety of simple techniques and materials for constructing form and affecting space, including found objects, plaster, wood, and basic mold making.
Questions posed and answered through assignments, readings, research, and discussion will include:

What is the relationship between form and content, materials and techniques, maker and object?

How does context, meaning, and purpose affect form?

How does history and experience inform materials?

What is the importance of the artist’s hand?

When does the process of making become more important than the "object" produced?

Exploration of what it means to live and build an, artistic practice in a time of climate change and, ecological crises. As artists, how do we think, through the material, environmental, and, psychological costs of our production? What kinds, of thinking are embodied in place? How can, place-based embodied knowledge teach resilience?, What does a sustainable practice look like in, terms of material and immaterial resources?, Utilizing expertise from regional eco-artists,, field trips in and around Portland, research, and, practice, we will explore the relationship between, place, the agency of material, and the intention, of the artist.