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Fine Arts Program
Program Curriculum | Fine
Arts Portfolio
The
field of Fine Arts encompasses a diversity of media and expression,
but at Paier it is a program dealing primarily with picture making–the
drawing and painting of objects and figures, and of portraits
and landscapes. Accomplishment of these in a variety of media
provides the content of the program. As work progresses, emphasis
is placed upon the students' intuitive responses to personal experience,
environment, and imagination. Although the students have the opportunity
to elect courses that will provide knowledge of art applications,
student assignments are not produced to satisfy a commercial need.
Students learn to make the fine arts pieces the central experience,
and to extend their vision by offering that experience to others.
Opportunities in Fine Arts have broadened over recent years owing,
in part, to a massive world-wide cultural explosion. While painters
work alone, they are increasingly the objects of support by growing
numbers of galleries and audiences everywhere, and by institutions
that allocate monies for the purchase of art toward the building
of major collections. Moreover, there is local, state, and federal
legislation that provides specific percentages of construction
cost to be spent on commissioned art for public structures.
Beyond self-expression and the presentation of such paintings
in galleries, the painter has other opportunities. The painting
of portraits is a tradition nearly as old as the history of western
art. Artists have also found opportunities as wall decorators
and historical muralists. Such commissions emanate from architects;
banks; businesses of every description; museums; federal, state,
and local programs; competitions; and the like. Moreover, many
painters practice the art of printmaking. In recent times the
print (e.g., lithograph silkscreen, etching, woodblock, aquatint,
etc.) has become an attractive commodity in the art market because
selling prices are usually lower than the single painting.
For Paier Fine Arts graduates, beginning opportunities will depend
upon their skill and vocabulary of expression, the nature of their
work, and the developing professional contacts that they establish.
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