Troy University Program
Course name: Art and Humanity
Instructor: Vu Kim Thu
Contact: tvuartist@gmail.com
Tel: 083 4154828
Course Description: This course is an introduction to and survey of the Visual Arts with the purpose of helping students to understand and appreciate art and what it has to offer. The class will include a combination of lectures, discussion, and field trips. Through the 10 weeks of this semester, we will consider materials and techniques, historical, religious, and cultural contexts, as well as ideas, concepts, and aesthetics. In addition, students will study developments in a few studio exercises, exploring the formal elements of the visual language and how they function in communicating ideas and emotions.
Course format:
Time frame: 2 hours and 45 minutes
Student evaluation:
Requirements: regular and punctual attendance (see class regulations below), required home assignments, class participation, midterm, a final project including a presentation.
| REQUIRED TO PASS THE COURSE | In class project participation: 20% |
|---|---|
| 1) Mid-term presentation: (30%) 2) Final project and presentation in class: (40%) 3) Museum masterpiece challenges presentation (10%) | 1) Mona Lisa Project (collage) (5%) 2) Clay sculpture (5%) 3) Field trip to the Museum of Fine Art Report (5%) 4) When a cardboard box becomes a miniature gallery (5%) |
Grading scale:
A: 90 – 100, B: 80 – 89,99 , C : 70 – 79,99, D : 60 – 69,99, F : under 60
Class syllabus:
| Content of the class | Studio practice | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction of the class and its elements + What is art? What is the purpose of art? + The language and vocabulary of art (composition, form, color, line, shape, mass, contrast, hue, mark, perspectives…). | Exercise of line drawing, form, and interaction with objects. |
| Class 2 | Art and Religions | When puzzles become a challenge. |
| Class 3 | Genre of paintings: History painting (religious, allegorical works) Portrait: Individual, group and self-portrait Genre painting: Scenes of everyday life activities Landscape painting Sill-life painting | Mona Lisa Project (collage) (5%) • Pick up the subject for midterm exam |
| Class 4 | From 19th Century – Century of styles Modernism and Post Modernism: Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art | Clay sculpture (5%) 2D becomes 3D. |
| Class 5 | Midterm exam: Individual presentation on chosen subjects (30%) | |
| Class 6 (FIELD TRIP) | Field trip to the Museum of Fine Art - 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc str (5%) | |
| Class 7 | When a cardboard box becomes a miniature gallery (5%) (SHOWING SAMPLE OF PREVIOUS FINAL PROJECTS) | |
| Class 8 | Public Art | Museum masterpiece challenges presentation (10%) |
| Class 9 | Final studio project presentation (in group or individual) (40%) | |
| Class 10 | My art practice |