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The painting and drawing department is committed to encouraging students to develop personally significant ideas that reference both painting’s rich history and contribute to its lively contemporary conversation. The faculty’s diverse points of view create a dynamic, rigorous environment where students are encouraged to broadly explore technical, aesthetic, and conceptual issues before focusing their work in preparation for their senior thesis presentations.

Drawing and painting are closely linked visual practices, and an understanding of one enriches a maturing practice of the other. The department’s fluid definition of these disciplines underscores our understanding that the contemporary art world is widely interdisciplinary in nature. Students in both concentrations will participate in curriculums designed to provide their emerging individual voices with the technical and conceptual grounding necessary for effective expression.

The painting and drawing department and senior semiprivate studios are located in Taub Hall and the Art School Garret.

Painting Department is divided into oil painting and Japanese painting. Students who choose to enroll at one of the applicants has representation on the application materials and learn the basic techniques of form, we will study more advanced creations. Representation of Japanese painting painting oil painting is based, in-depth to the image representation Prints, 21 challenges to the possibility of expression in response to social circumstances that shape the diversification of the century.

Painting Department has a training and educational goals of educators and open new horizons of creative artists in the community and are closely related.

Ceramics, as well as Japan and the region’s unique culture of Okinawa, China, and for Southeast Asia, and in order to develop the abundant talent and international recognition of the essential significance of the large craft.

And a practical expression to the basic annual training to learn the basic techniques of pottery forms.

Annual two basic molding, decorative stacks of training, adjustment clay and glaze materials for research, the history of ceramics and their basic learning, and learning about cultural aspects.

Every three years the emphasis on practice firing and decorating techniques and challenges to building more advanced technology to master the techniques of firing and firing comparison.

4 we seek the technology and a unique expression of the new possibilities that can meet the new era with more basic research to expand and annual glaze mixing and baking, and making graduation.

Montserrat’s Painting and Drawing curriculum focuses on both traditional and contemporary practices. These courses explore a range of media while building formal, technical, and conceptual skills yet allow students to develop their artistic points of view.

As students progress through the Painting and Drawing program, they work more intensely and independently. The Senior Fine Arts Seminars are a particularly good means of helping students develop connections within their imagery, expand their artistic horizons, gain valuable studio experience, and greatly increase their abilities to analyze and discuss their work.

The final year of study demands self-motivation and self-awareness as students embark upon enriching careers as visual artists. This artistic experience is supported by a diverse faculty and frequent visiting artists, who offer specialized courses and workshops for advanced and self-directed study. The quality of faculty-student interaction enables students to fully experience the painting medium while establishing distinctive, personal forms of expression.

Are you passionate about painting? Do you see yourself working in your own studio and selling your work in galleries? Or pursuing commissions or public arts projects? Our BFA in Painting is intensely focused. You’ll study every major form and genre including still life, landscape, figure, abstract, and mixed media. You’ll work in oils, acrylics, watercolor, and encaustic. And as you work your way through the program, you’ll be developing a broad body of work and a highly competitive portfolio that will prepare you for a future in fine art.

Make a living AND make a difference.

Painting is an art of many voices. Some are quiet and studied. Others are explosive and free. The diversity of expression creates continual openings for new perspectives—and for change. Through their work, painters call attention to the world within and around us, inviting us to explore new voices, as well as new ways of seeing and thinking and being in the world.

This course offers the curriculum where awareness of the issues is enhanced by various lesson experiences.
In order to pull out mental fullness required for environmental design, this course offers curriculums that stimulate students’susceptibility, curiosity and inquiry mind, and deepen awareness of issues.

In the freshman and sophomore year, this course offers “debate-type lesson” where students can use their heads and deepen their understanding of nature or culture.
This lesson is performed in parallel with ” studio-work lesson” where students can acquire actual expression techniques.
From the junior year when students are divided into some courses, this course offers “workshop-type lesson” where students can develop awareness of issues and gain design thought.
This spiral-type curriculum where students repeat discovery of subjects and solution through various lesson experiences is also its specialty.

This course aims that students reach mutuality as builders by original sensitive education of a university of arts.
Architecture is one of the oldest learning for human, and is also the matrix of art. Geometry has developed for architectureand mural and sculpture has competed beauty as ornaments that also color architectures. Therefore, it is necessary for students to acquire all learning and arts in order to become mature builders. This course offers indispensable knowledge to builders, based on the original sensitive education of a university of arts. The curriculum that emphasizes on what the architecture as arts was especially at the literary viewpoint is the specialty. Architecture is also considered from each viewpoint, such as the city that is full of architectures or the house where we live in.

The sense of language is improved so as to design view of architecture.
Architecture is also an art. The original education in this university is designing view of architecture. A space is created with reading the mind of users. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to improve the sense of language. It is not too much to say that the lifeline for builders is literature. In novels and poetries, vivid description of people’s city life or home life is made and mentality is also drawn. Students do the design with this clue of the construction. Of course, it is also indispensable to learn technique required as builders and to acquire of the practical know-how. The growth from both sides of mental and technique has been encouraged for four years.

Sculpture Course
Course participants develop their expression by learning a variety of sculptural methods and the selection of materials including clay, plastic, plaster, stone and wood. There are wide student themes ranging from human figures to architectural compositions and beyond the sculpture field.
In the master program, there are two divisions, Sculpture and Environmental Sculpture. During the program, students are provided with much free creative space and atmosphere. Doctoral students are expected to accomplish a higher standard of works, while drawing up their theses through learning sculpture history and theory.

Oil Painting Course
This course focuses on oil painting, drawings, copper-plate printing, fresco painting, painting methods and materials, and equally painting theories such as art anatomy, art history and composition. The goal of the oil painting course is to encourage each talent to become an artist in a variety of art fields. During the master program, students paint in diverse ways of expression with better skills in the field of oil painting. Doctoral students have to enhance their performance and knowledge at each stage, and write theses concerning their creativity from his or her historical and theoretical viewpoints.

The Department provides students with learning experiences through theoretical studies and practical training in a systematic learning approach. Students can enhance their skills and eventually learn to establish their idiom of expression in the world of sculpture. The basic courses are intended to teach students the three?dimensional concept of plastic thoughts, and deepen those ideas. The major courses offer students the opportunities to develop their individual artistic sensibility. What the Department would like most for students to accomplish is to comprehensively experience the traditional and modern concepts of sculptural language and apply this learning in their own works. The goal of the department is to educate students to become qualified professional artists who are needed n this art society.

Basic curriculum
Students seek their own expression in selected courses.
Students are presented with a variety of challenging themes and gain valuable input from the work of their peers.
The curriculum includes critique sessions, in which students present their opinions.
Students are encouraged to extend their studies beyond the university campus in order to broaden their point of view.
Special curriculum
Following an interview with faculty, students design their own one-year curriculum.
Students pursue their own direction and style of expression.
Students enhance their perception of their own work by visiting exhibitions and other events.
As the first step towards working independently, students form their basic identity as an artist.