20 Apr, 2010
Seeing Beyond The Surface of Art
Posted by: Gina Alianiello In: Arts & Humanities|Fine Art
Course/Program Name: Introduction to Visual Thinking
Hosted by/ Sponsored by: Webcast Berkeley Courses
Course of Study: Practice of Art
Course Link: Take this course
Description: Explore what it means to think visually, with Berkeley University web and audio lectures. The course illustrates how in art what you see is not necessarily what you get. You learn to contemplate art with all the senses—to become sensitive to what is beyond what seems obvious. Through every type of medium and style you are challenged to question continually and expand your ideas of what constitutes art and reality, regardless of taste.
The passion in the process of art is where the artist finds points of reference and investigation. From minimalism to collage and classic to modern, you will learn to seek in the content of art deeper histories, narratives and contexts. You will appreciate how perceptions of the moment of art-making are always changing through time.