Painting

Overview

At Painting from Rhode Island School of Design professors are committed to assisting each student in developing his or her own vision, supporting an enormous diversity of formal and conceptual approaches, painting styles and interests. During two years in residence at RISD, graduate students undertake a serious investigation of the broad range of possibilities and realities presented by contemporary painting.

Graduates with Painting from Rhode Island School of Design will be able to:

• display an understanding of contemporary visual art

• demonstrate the intention, motivation and tools required to pursue a career as an artist and sustain a rigorous fine arts practice

• demonstrate the strong visual, verbal and technical skills needed to engage with cutting-edge discourse in contemporary art

• produce artwork that makes use of the interdependence between content, form, process and context

• appreciate the material qualities and physical aspects of works not intended exclusively for reproduction

• display an intimate familiarity with historical and contemporary approaches to visual art and their interrelationships

• demonstrate enhanced critical reasoning with broad historical overviews and social insight

• support intellectual and academic freedom