Drawing
The Loyola Visual Arts Drawing Curriculum is perception based and immerses the students in the methodologies of seeing and translating what is seen through a variety of traditional and experimental media and processes. The complete program, which includes three courses of study, Drawing I, Drawing II, and Advanced Drawing recognizes that even though advances in technology have become integral to some studio experiences, the hand drawn image still carries with it a remarkable means of communicating the intellect and the expression of the artist in a direct way.
Drawing I students are required to deconstruct, analyze and interpret visual information of significant complexity. Complete immersion in this process of drawing is encouraged as a means to subjective, spontaneous discovery. The student's work is critiqued individually in progress and in class critique at regular intervals during the semester. A portfolio of fully realized drawings will result.
Drawing II uses intensive in- class figure sessions to explore further understanding of the possibilities and limitations of drawing. Assigned outside projects, with emphasis on the narrative, are aimed at initiating mark making and sustaining that impulse through development of concept to presentation of the drawing in final form.
In Advanced Drawing students are encouraged to develop their own aesthetic response to contemporary issues of drawing. In this it is important to gain an understanding that art is not just a demonstration of technical skill and sensitivity, but also an object whose size, format and media all contribute to its meaning.
