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Below are syllabi and student work portfolios from ARTS 103, the Fundamentals of Art ARTS 107, Color and Composition, and ARTS 390,Santiago Ramón y Cajal the intersection of Art and Science. Brief descriptions and syllabi links are below, as well as icon links to extensive portfolios of course work assignments.



ARTS 103



ARTS 103 specializes in the basics of visual communication through the introduction of 2-D
design elements and principles. The class introduces basic, visual art vocabulary and covers essential two-dimensional design concepts.


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ARTS 107



The primary goal of ARTS 107 is to provide students with an overview of important color systems that have been utilized in great works of art and commercial production. Students will be given opportunities to examine, develop, and create relationships between color theory and composition through a series of hands-on preliminary and final exercises.


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ARTS 390



The Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Intersection of Art and Science course combines traditional aspects of a history course with hands on art projects of a studio class. The class examines the cultural and scientific context of Cajal's research and the production of his neuroanatomy drawings. It is intended for neuroscience enthusiasts and students at any level of artistic development. The link below offers an overview of content, materials, and subject matter.


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ARTS 103
IN LINE WITH NATURE, PORTFOLIO NO 1





Sensory perception and interpretation: Students select a found object from nature. First, they study their object's textures and shapes in a series of mixed drawings. They are then challenged to think about format, context, and composition more complexly by creating a drawing that places the object within itself - it is juxtaposed within a pattern of textures or shapes derived from its surface.



ARTS 103
NEGATIVE POSITIVE SPACE, PORTFOLIO NO 2





Visual perception and visual editing: Students engage in perception and abstraction by creating stark black and white drawings through direct observation of still-life objects. Through interpretation and organization, their drawings are complex compositions that integrate fusion, closure, and containment as students engage in the basic principles of design.



ARTS 103
AT PLAY WITH PLANAR FORMS, PORTFOLIO NO 3





Deconstruction, Extraction, Interpretation, and Reconstruction: Within the Planar Form Project, students deconstruct their Negative and Positive Space drawings by extracting planar forms. They then re-conceptualize and reassemble those forms in compositions that reinterpret the content while reconstructing new form and content within invented compositions.



ARTS 103
SLASHING SYMBOLS WORKSHOP, PORTFOLIO NO 4





Interpretation and re-contextualization: By integrating the creative process with students’ intuitive responses, the Slashing Symbols workshop is designed to expose the underpinnings of visual language within popular advertisements that exploits consumer perception. Students explore symbolism by pulling images out the familiar world of advertising and placing the images within the realm of fine art. Workshop participants launch an intuitive investigation that results in an exciting and engaging critique of consumerism.



ARTS 103
ARTIST STUDY AND QUILTING BEE COLLAGE,
PORTFOLIO, NO 5





Perception, deconstruction and reconstruction: During the first phase, students study a significant artist for two weeks and mimic their creative process and artistic style through the completion of six black and white acrylic paintings. In the second phase students replicate the paintings they created during the first phase by printing black and white copies or high-quality Xeroxes of their paintings that capture a variety of textures and values. Using the copies as a resource, they then design a repeat pattern image that incorporates an anomaly.



ARTS 103
SIGNIFICANT CONTENT, PORTFOLIO NO 6





Symbolism and conceptual interpretation: Students create an autobiographical "Shrine" that is symbolic or metaphoric in its representation. After constructing their assemblages, they break down the imagery in a series of thumbnail drawings. The results of their interpretations may be abstract or representational. They are asked to prioritize one of the elements of art to be the "visual lead" and include the principle of design, emphasis, and choose one other principle to combine in their interpretations.


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ARTS 107
CONTRAST OF HUE, PORTFOLIO NO 7





Understanding brilliance: In a series of digital and physical preliminaries, and digital and physical final compositions, students explore color brilliance by arranging hues adjacent to each other in a manner that emphasizes a distinct contrast in value.



ARTS 107
COLD WARM CONTRAST, PORTFOLIO NO 8





Understanding temperature: Students explore temperature by creating a series of digital and physical preliminaries and digital and physical final compositions that explore the transition of hot to cold. Instead of having a distinct difference with adjacent colors, students are asked to transition the temperature of their work with colors that are similar or equal in brilliance.



ARTS 107
SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST, PORTFOLIO NO 10





Experiencing successive contrast: Students explore the power of a color's environment and seek to make a hue appear changed depending on the colors surrounding it. They select six colors that a continuous color will be placed in the center and eventually develop this concept by creating a final, free form composition with their continuous hue repeating throughout the composition. Colors in the final composition will be the same colors as the preliminary.



ARTS 107
COMPLEMENTARY CONTRAST, PORTFOLIO NO 9





Complementary Contrast: Students successfully identify complementary pairs that are light-dark in contrast. If a pair of complements is not naturally light-dark in contrast, students adjust the colors by adding black to create shades or white to create tints. They will create a series of digital and physical preliminaries and digital and physical finals. In addition to exploring complementary contrast, students will also explore texture by either creating actual texture in their work or simulating texture.



ARTS 107
CONTRAST OF SATURATION, PORTFOLIO NO 11





The Power of One: Students will dilute a single color and create four-color scales in a physical preliminary and final painting that demonstrates how the saturation of a color is affected by adding white, black, gray, and its compliment. Their final image will be monochromatic and show contrast by manipulating a one color’s saturation. Their goal is to have a lot of the middle, mixed colors, and very little of the original colors in your final painting.



ARTS 107
SPATIAL EFFECTS, PORTFOLIO NO 12





Space and Depth: Students seek to demonstrate the illusion of spatial depth with color. The final image will demonstrate the concept of spatial dept (Spatial Effects) through the Contrast of Saturation concept applied to a perceptual landscape painting. Students will draw the landscape from perception and value gradation as a preliminary exercise in preparation for their final work.



ARTS 107
FORM AND COLOR, PORTFOLIO NO 13





The Shape of Things: By constructing a series of free-form designs, students apply Itten’s principle, in which he assigns a color to shapes and forms. They create five painted exploratory constructions, which are especially interesting as their shapes evolve or morph into another form—this allows the color to change as the shape changes.



ARTS 107
CONTRAST OF EXTENSION, PORTFOLIO NO 14





Balance and Proportion: Compositions are arrived at by balancing colors' lightness or brightness of hues. Our projects follow the numerical system assigned to colors influenced by Goethe and prescribed by Itten and apply fractions to break down the color balance numerically. Our compositions are small and intense, and we examine the application of contrast of extension in the cultural context of popular animated films and theater productions.



ARTS 107
COLOR EXPRESSION, PORTFOLIO NO 15





Color harmony is the development of themes from systematic color relationships that serve as a basis for a composition. Select balanced color schemes according to where they exist on the color wheel and the geometric shape they create based on position (dyads, triads, tetrads, hexads, etc. Create a preliminary that explore this harmonious phenomenon and then select one of the color schemes from the initial exercise to create a final composition. Students will assign metaphoric or symbolic content to the colors used in the final composition.


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ARTS 103 and ARTS 390
A DIVERSELY UNIFIED WORLD, PORTFOLIO NO 16





Following the inspirational examples of 19th artists (Cézanne, Van Gogh and Munch) and scientists (Cajal, Freud, and Darwin), student immerse themselves in nature and articulate their sensory responses through drawing. Using line to hatch, stipple, and mark the page, they aim to simulated their responses through a wide variety of interpreted textures and values.



ARTS 390
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: the intersection of Art and Science





The Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Intersection of Art and Science course combines traditional aspects of a history course with hands on art projects of a studio class. The class examines the cultural and scientific context of Cajal's research and the production of his neuroanatomy drawings. It is intended for neuroscience enthusiasts and students at any level of artistic development. The link below offers an overview of content, materials, and subject matter.



ARTS 390
Dawn Hunter, Associate Professor, Course Author





Professor Dawn Hunter pursued her undergraduate studies at the Kansas City Art Institute, the prestigious Yale University Norfolk Summer School of Art & Music. As a Regents Fellow, she received her MFA from the University of California, Davis. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, and recently served as the Fulbright España Senior Research Fellowship to the Instituto Cajal, Madrid. She is an expert on Cajal and specializes in researching primary sources from his research and life, such as his scientific drawings, personal paintings and color photography. Follow the icon link above to learn more.


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Featured Projects from ARTS 103,
Fundamentals of Art



Dawn Hunter authored the ARTS 103 course, a UofSC Carolina Core and INDEV class, specifically for the University of South Carolina Student population. Through the creation of unique project, the course is structured around the diversity of backgrounds, general interests, and previous hands on art experience of the UofSC Undergraduate student population.



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