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...explore issues that interest them in their subject of choice. Just about every concentration requires students to master certain basic skills, whether it is through tutorials, survey courses, prerequisites, or something similar, in order to move on to more advanced and often more conceptual material. Painting courses such as Mitchnick??s provide that kind of base for students who want to concentrate in art. In keeping with the Task Force on the Arts’s recommendations, Harvard should take care to reaffirm its commitment to strengthening rather than weakening the quality and breadth of arts-practice programs...
...Mitchnick??s style may not fit into current trends that dictate that technique is secondary to conceputal creation, though she maintains that one does not necessarily preclude the other...
...Patrick A. Gordon ’11, one of Mitchnick??s current students, feels even more strongly about the tension that exists. “They [VES] want me to become more conceptual and be forced down a particular road,” he says. “I’m not looking to be pigeon-holed...
...James A. Powers ’08, Mitchnick??s teaching assistant, asserts that what students want is a balance of the two in their classes. “Many students see the conceptual courses here as superficial ‘Pitchfork critiques’ on art,” he wrote in a letter to President Drew Faust, “if not complimented with a practical element that encourages aggressive empirical analysis from a hands-on practicing painting professor...
...this period of transition for the VES, Mitchnick??s departure is simply the most recent upset in what have been difficult times. The imminent change has not only troubled ardent supporters of the painting instructor, and alumni, but also unearthed longstanding, deeper anxieties concerning the direction in which the department is headed. Yet if VES is to continue to fulfill its mission to provide the best education possible to its students, then the troubling perception that the position of a more traditional, hands-on approach to art education has been rendered precarious by a move towards the theoretical...