Category: College courses

  • Art Classes

    Art Classes

    2-D Design

    This course will focus on the basics of design utilizing the principles and practices involved in the production of art forms.

    Beginning Drawing

    This course is an introduction to principles and techniques in drawing. Students will gain a working knowledge of line, shape, perspective, proportion, volume, and composition. Students will learn how to look at, evaluate and present art…

    Beginning Life Drawing

    A beginning life drawing course emphasizing the study and analysis of the human form using basic art materials and fundamental drawing concepts.

    Acrylic Painting

    This is an intermediate course in acrylic painting with continuing study of the theory and practice of painting.

  • How to recognize the authors of paintings

    How to recognize the authors of paintings

    How to recognize the authors of paintings

    If the images have a dark background and everyone has tortured expressions on their faces, it’s Titian.

    If everyone in the paintings has enormous asses, then it’s Rubens.

    If all the men look like cow-eyed curly-haired women, it’s Caravaggio.

    If the paintings have tons of little people in them but otherwise seem normal, it’s Bruegel.

    If the paintings have lots of little people in them but also have a ton of crazy bullshit, it’s Bosch.

    If everyone looks like hobos illuminated only by a dim streetlamp, it’s Rembrandt.

    If the painting could easily have a few chubby Cupids or sheep added (or already has them), it’s Boucher.

    If everyone is beautiful, naked, and stacked, it’s Michelangelo.

    If you see a ballerina, it’s Degas.

    If everything is highly-contrasted and sharp, sort of bluish, and everyone has gaunt bearded faces, it’s El Greco.

    If everyone – including the women – looks like Putin, then it’s van Eyck.

    If Everybody Has Some Sort Of Body Malfunction, Then It’s Picasso

    Lord Of The Rings Landscapes With Weird Blue Mist And The Same Wavy-Haired Aristocratic-Nose Madonna, It’s Da Vinci

    Dappled Light And Unhappy Party-Time People, Then It’s Manet

    Dappled Light But No Figures, It’s Monet

    Dappled Light And Happy Party-Time People, It’s Renoir

    Excel Sheet With Coloured Squares, It’s Mondrian

    If Every Painting Is The Face Of A Uni-Browed Woman, It’s Frida