Intermediate Portrait Painting: Subject and Subjectivity (PAI-0172)

Spring 2025 · PAI 0172 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

Contemporary portraiture offers a platform for exploration of subject, (the persons pictured) and subjectivity (the feeling, read, or take of the painter). Situating portraiture within a broader contemporary context, examining the role of identity, gender, race, nationality, and class of those depicted and depicting people in paintings. Develop rendering skills to depict the human head and figure, caricature and expression, and the ability to elaborate, expand, and fictionalize sitters. Recommended: An introductory level painting course, beginning oil painting, or the equivalent. Non-SMFA students and MAT Art Education students will receive a letter grade.

Course codes: PAI-0172, PAI 0172, PAI0172, PAI-172, PAI 172, PAI172

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