Part 2 can be taken independently from Part 1.

How we create three dimensional space on a flat surface is one of the central problems of painting. This course is designed to support your studio practice by introducing you to a wide variety of ways to approach space in your work. In Part II of the course we continue our way through William Dunning’s Changing Images of Pictorial Space, bringing us from the Baroque to the modern era. The course sets up provocative juxtapositions between the ways traditional and modernist painters approach flatness and depth in their work.

Each session will include a slide lecture, painting demo, and a painting project for the week. Working from observation from a still life motif, students will explore radically different ways of setting up the depth and space of their work based on the ideas presented in class.

Reading: Changing Images of Pictorial Space: A History of Spacial Illusion in Painting by William Dunning