Two-Dimensional Design - ART 131 at Rappahannock Community College
https://courses.vccs.edu./colleges/rcc/courses/ART131-TwoDimensionalDesign
Effective: 2022-03-31
Course Description
Introduces the elements and principles of design as applied to two-dimensional studio projects. Introduces two-dimensional media, techniques, compositional strategies, and color concepts and interactions. Supports conceptual development through introduction to historical and contemporary practices and critical analysis. May include field trips as required. This is a UCGS transfer course.
Lecture 1 hour. Studio instruction 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
This course provides lecture and studio instruction on the fundamentals, practices, and related concepts of two-dimensional design. No prior art training is necessary. This course is a requirement for all Art curricula.
Course Objectives
- Communication/Critical Thinking
- Use media-specific terminology to critique and evaluate works of art and design.
- Composition
- Identify, analyze, and synthesize the elements and principles of design in regards to the creation of two-dimensional works of art and design.
- Identify, analyze, and synthesize the elements of color and the principles of color interaction.
- Technique
- Demonstrate technical skills and craftsmanship through the considered use of art and design media and techniques, and through the correct handling of materials and tools.
- Cultural Understanding
- Identify precedents of traditional, historical, and contemporary two-dimensional art and design.
- Color Theory
- Investigate the principles of color, including harmony, contrast, focus, space, opacity, transparency, temperature, and value.
- Explore properties of mixing color in light and in material, including hue, value, and chroma.
- Materials
- Explore a variety of two-dimensional media, including paper, paint, ink and other color applications.
- Composition
- Explore traditional and contemporary two-dimensional design media and techniques and compositional strategies using the elements and principles of design.
- Place imagery within the framework of the picture plane utilizing the elements and principles of design.
- Critique
- Utilize media-specific terminology to critique and evaluate two-dimensional works incorporating the elements and principles of design.
- Conceptual Intent
- Use traditional, historical or contemporary examples of two-dimensional design to synthesize composition and a variety of two-dimensional processes dictated by conceptual and expressive goals.
- Elaborate upon the formal and conceptual implications of style, materials, composition, color and imagery/space.
Major Topics to be Included
- Color Theory
- Materials
- Composition
- Critique
- Conceptual Intent