Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Combining the present fields of Architectural Sciences and Visual Studies, Environmental Studies will offer a wide variety of courses in the visual arts for both concentrators and non-concentrators...
Eduard F. Sekler, Director of the Carpenter Center and head of the Visual Studies program said that the combined field would give the Arch Sci and Visual Studies departments a chance to coordinate their programs and offer a much wider selection of experimental and lower level courses. "We've always had more applications than we could handle," Sekler said last week. "Under Environmental Studies we could accommodate more students, and offer a much broader curriculum...
Albert Szabo, Chairman of the Architectural Sciences Department, said that the proposed combination of fields would offer the Arch Sci department the chance to combine the study of architecture with more abstract courses in the visual arts, on such topics as light and color, space and volume, and visual communication...
...goes back to Robert Rauschenberg, painting in the fifties. Rauschenberg was the first painter to incorporate everyday objects directly into the composition of his paintings. Jasper Johns developed on this approach by focusing on familiar objects individually so that the objects became the center of interest rather than a visual component of a larger composition. Jasper Johns' painting of Three Flags is one of the first completely static paintings in modern art. Its lack of visual movement, makes it an almost emblematic representation. Yet, both Rauschenberg and Johns handle paint with an individual expressive style...
...they lack any quality of illusion, or personal emotional involvement, are decorative rather than imaginative experiences for the viewer. But seen in this light, they demonstrate taste and skill. Their bright colors and attractive design put them in a class with Danish furniture or Florentine leather; they improve the visual quaity of our environment and perhaps they even stimulate an examination of everyday surroundings in terms of aesthetic values. They do not, however, intend to evoke the imaginative emotional response which is experienced through literature or traditional styles of painting...