We offer study abroad opportunities specially designed to draw on the artistic strengths of our global partners and incorporate the rich history, techniques and traditions of each country. Beyond the classroom, student activities include field trips, performances, and interaction with professional artists. Train with master teachers who are industry professionals, immerse yourself in a new culture and have a once in a lifetime experience.
Painting is one of the most venerated forms of art, and one of the oldest. Since humanity’s first steps on this planet we have painted, ancient cave paintings show our desire to express ourselves even in our earliest days. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, colour or other medium to a solid surface. The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term “painting”…
A sketch is a drawing which is intended to represent the characteristics of the subject or idea or thought with just a few incisive strokes. It is drawn quickly, and so it lives by the freshness of the stroke and the immediacy of expression. A sketch may serve a number of purposes: it might record something that the artist sees, it might record or develop an idea for later use or it might be used as a quick way of graphically demonstrating an…
Drawing is one of the oldest forms of human expression within the visual arts. Drawing became significant as an art form around the late 15th century. It is generally concerned with the marking of lines and areas of tone onto paper/other material, where the accurate representation of the visual world is expressed upon a plane surface. While done initially on wood, paper became a preferred medium after its invention. Drawing differs from painting as it is often done using dry media like pencil…
sculpture, an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects. The designs may be embodied in freestanding objects, in reliefs on surfaces, or in environments ranging from tableaux to contexts that envelop the spectator. An enormous variety of media may be used, including clay, wax, stone, metal, fabric, glass, wood, plaster, rubber, and random “found” objects. Materials may be carved, modelled, moulded, cast, wrought, welded, sewn, assembled, or otherwise shaped and combined. A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Now a days,…
calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting. The term may derive from the Greek words for “beauty” (kallos) and “to write” (graphein). Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as “the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skilful manner. In the Middle East and East Asia, calligraphy by long and exacting tradition is considered a major art, equal to sculpture or painting. Nonetheless, after the introduction of printing in Europe in the mid-15th century, a clear distinction arose between handwriting and more elaborate forms of scripts…