Process Painting

Course Objective This course is designed to introduce a range of non-traditional painting techniques and approaches to enable students to select and identify modes of expression to develop concepts that suit their individual inclinations. Theoretical basis and Contextual analysis for the course: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Fluxus, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Post-modernism, Pluralism, Appropriation, Signified/Signifier, Semiotics, Installation, Feminism, Environmentalism, Ageism, Meta-narrative, Micro-politics, Identity, Photo-realism, etc. The major goal of this course is to teach how to develop a concept for a work and execute a developed concept through process painting. Course Description and Goals Instructional strategies are primarily supervising and critiquing the paintings. The student will do 2 non-traditional paintings in this term. Painting styles and techniques, both traditional and non-traditional will be introduced and gallery trips and other related assignments would be given.

• Develop an individualized awareness of the relationships between concept, visual effects, techniques and media in painting.
• Increased ability to investigate and experiment with visual communication in painting. You will be able to apply established theories, concepts and media, which are important in the development of your own art.
• Demonstrate a creative and self-critical approach in developing paintings.
• Development of painting skills, techniques and aesthetic sensibilities related to artistic expression in oil and acrylic media, and emphasis on development of independent problem solving
• Demonstrate an individualized expression in any established style (realistic, abstract, non-objective).
• Demonstrate a basic understanding in the use of contemporary methods of paint application.
• Create paintings that demonstrate the expression of individualized concepts, feelings, viewpoints, style and techniques.

Students:
Soizig Le Vergos, Karin Mayr, Bettina Feischl, Johanna Wögerbauer, Jutta Valentini, Daniela Mauss, Karin Schnetzinger, Helga Rumpl, Birgitta Merl, Ulrike Schmidt, Andrea Schusterbauer, Kathrin Jahnel, Hannes Dorfer Lecturer:
Dr. Mika Cho, Professor of Art, California State University, Los Angeles List of works:

• Ulrike: Memory
• Bettina: Individuality
• Kathrin: color and light
• Daniela: Feminism
• Karin: Relationship
• Christina: Inner complex
• Brigitta: Transformation
• Helga: Dream and Reality
• Karin S: Contradiction
• Andrea: A Whole Being
• Jutta: Self Portrait
• Johanna: Surface beyond the Surface
• Soizig: Paradox