Department of Art and Art History
College of Arts and Sciences
INTERMEDIATE OIL PAINTING II
ART 302 is a structured painting course that challenges the students to study paintings by a variety of assigned master artists and then, by analyzing their color, spatial techniques, compositional characteristics, brushwork, content, and signature motifs, to create original art works that expand on the visual dialogue found in the works of the featured artists. Recent featured artist styles have included those of Rembrandt, Stuart Davis, Vincent Van Gogh, Mark Rothko, Chuck Close, Claude Monet, William Turner, Gorgio de Chirco, Gustav Klimt, Jenny Saville, Joan Mitchell, and Edward Hopper and have encompassed still-life, portrait, cityscape, landscape, and non-objective content (that is somewhat inaccurately known as abstract painting).
Janet O'Brien, BFA painting, 2012 ("in the style of" David Park)
Approximately four paintings are assigned with each requiring accompanying studies. Three of the paintings will be in a style of artists chosen by the instructor. .

The final project will either be a painterly landscape or a painting in a style and subject matter of their own chooisng (in consultation with the instructor) for a final project that must be at least 4 to 5 feet in its largest dimension.
"IN THE STYLE OF" STUART DAVIS
"IN THE STYLE OF" VAN GOGH
"IN THE STYLE OF "JUICY LANDSCAPES
"IN THE STYLE OF" ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
"IN THE STYLE OF" THE STUDENTS CHOICE
"IN THE STYLE OF" REMBRANDT
PAINTING COURSE DESCRIPTIONS