Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the way that meaning is constructed and communicated through visual images. Students use a variety of tools, skills, methods and media, to explore the creative process: to translate observations, analyze relationships, communicate visually, organize form, and foster the exploratory process of developing ideas.
Of primary importance is the understanding of how we respond to the visual world and how we use our unique and personal perceptual, physical and analytical abilities to bring two-dimensional works into being. Students explore visual organization and composition, and develop sensitivity to both representational and abstract form. Projects emphasize perceptual engagement through drawing, photography, digital image creation, and the integration of different forms of media. A sketchbook is used as an integral tool to explore the relationships between these different kinds of investigations.
Discussion, critique and written responses offer opportunities for students to communicate ideas about their projects and those of their classmates and to understand their work in historical and cultural context. The tools and methods in Drawing/Imaging form an introductory platform that Parsons students will build upon in their upper level disciplinary courses.
Class Description: Places & Things
This section focuses on objects, space, locations and the unique place as a site of investigation and may include personal, private, public, and historical space. Using context as a means to illuminate content, we will identify and address individual design skills and drawing methods in both traditional and digital media, to accumulate the design vocabulary and practical skills necessary for any chosen major.
