Monday December 1st Calendar Updated
Field Trip canceled

Tuesday September 2 Syllabus Syllabus and Requirements Starter Kit Forms of  Analysis of Art Thursday September 4 The World as Artists See It Representing the World: Representation and Abstraction Value Color Color in Film Read for Thursday: Starter Kit Read Key Concepts, Form, Iconography and Context Read Mencher Liaisons 1-5 (How to Use This Book) Sayre, A World of Art, Chapter 1 "A World of Art" Chapter 7 "Light and Color" Chapter 12 "Painting" Optional Sunday September 7 at 1PM "The Secret Knowledge" Technique Talk and Demonstration at the Los Gatos Museum of Art Art Museum in the Tait Firehouse 4 Tait Avenue at W. Main St. Los Gatos, CA 95030 408.354.2646 Referencing David Hockney's best selling tome on how Renaissance artists used the projected image, Kenney Mencher shows the audience his secrets.  Primarily how he uses a computer, an overhead projector and transparencies to project and establish a drawing on canvas.	Tuesday November 4th The Baroque  The Baroque and Bernini Baroque Painting Vermeer Bernini's David Bernini's Cornaro Chapel 1647-1652 The Carracci Caravaggio The Baroque Style: The Caravaggisti The Story of Susanna and the Elders Mencher, Liaisons 197-214 Read Judith and Holofernes and Susanna and the Elders Read Sayre Chapter 9 Principals of Design Vermeer Mencher, Liaisons 219-224 Two Perspectives   Thursday November 6th Excerpts from The Social Contract Neoclassicism Orientalism Romanticism   History_painting and Neoclassicism Read Mencher, Liaisons 139-144, Excerpts from The Social Contract Female Painters Neoclassic Holdouts and the Romantics Romanticism Read Mencher, Liaisons 265-276 Excerpts from Weird Science and Romantic Notions "Imaginary Orient" by Linda Nochlin on Reserve in the Library "Imaginary Orient" by Linda Nochlin (also available on Reserve in the Library) Read Mencher, Liaisons 279-288The Imaginary and not so Imaginary Orients Sayre, A World of Art, Chapter 21  "The 18th and 19th Centuries"       Paris When it Sizzles! Realism in Literature: Flaubert's and Manet's Caged Birds
Tuesday September 9th Meet in room 2133 Artist's Talk with Jian "James" Wu and Farshid Namei DUE WED SEPT 9th by Midnight Read for Tuesday: Sayre, A World of Art, Chapter 5 "Line" Chapter 8 "Other Formal Elements" Chapter 10 "Drawing" Thursday September 11th Meet in room 2133 Artist's Talk and Demo with Mark Eanes Read for Thursday: Starter Kit Read Key Concepts, Form, Iconography and Context Sayre, A World of Art,  Chapter 5 "Line"  Chapter 8 "Other Formal Elements" Chapter 10 "Drawing"	Tuesday November 11 NO SCHOOL VETERAN'S DAY Thursday November 13 Meet in the Gallery  Dr. Gessica Johnston gives a talk on naturalist art and botany. Take home test on Renaissance and Baroque Art due  If you are late to class I will not accept this test it will be a zero
Tuesday September 16 Intro to Perspectives Representing the World: Iconography REALITY SHOW PREVIEW First Writing Assignment Due The development of Perspective in Renaissance Art The psychology of Perspective An Interactive Site about Perspective Color_Basics Formal Analysis (Review of Concepts) Thursday September 18 Context: A brief Survey of Painting and Sculpture (The Canon of Great Art) The Classical World Greece Greek Philosophy The Acropolis Read The Allegory of the Cave (QUIZ ON THIS) Mencher Liaisons 49, 87-90 (Thucydides: Perikles' Funeral Oration)  Sayre, A World of Art, Chapter 12 Painting: Focus on Encaustic and Fresco Chapter 14 Sculpture Chapter 16 Architecture Chapter 18 Focus on Greek and Roman Art What is cheating? Required Saturday Evening 7PM-8PM Artist's reception for the realism show.  There is also a Circus in the Smith Center that night at 8 so you may want to buy tickets. Optional Sunday September 21 at 1PM "How to get Ahead" at the Los Gatos Museum of Art Art Museum in the Tait Firehouse 4 Tait Avenue at W. Main St. Los Gatos, CA 95030 408.354.2646 A quick one to two hour demonstration of how to paint the human head.  Mencher will show you how to mix flesh tones and how to lay the paint down.	Tuesday November 18     Tuesday November 18 Last day to drop from full-term classes with a W grade Thursday November 20
Tuesday September 23  The Classical World Continued Sculpture Golden Age Late Hellenistic Sculpture "The Acropolis" The Panathenaic Concept and Victory "The Acropolis" The Parthenon and its Sculptures "The Acropolis" The Erectheion and its Caryatids Sculpture during the "Golden Age of Perikles"  Late Hellenistic Art  Thursday September 25 Roman Sculpture Roman Architecture Roman Art and Architecture Roman Art in Pompeii Read Sayre Chapter 15 Other Three Dimensional Media Optional Sunday September 28 at 1PM "Using your computer as a sketchbook" at the Los Gatos Museum of Art Art Museum in the Tait Firehouse 4 Tait Avenue at W. Main St. Los Gatos, CA 95030 408.354.2646 Using Windows and Adobe Photoshop Mencher shows you his tricks of how to use the computer to conceptualize and layout his paintings.	Tuesday November 25
Tuesday September 30  Video of Popol Vuh Story Thursday Oct 2nd Mesoamerica The Olmec Mesoamerica Teotihuacan 1 Mesoamerica Teotihuacan 2 Mesoamerica Mayan The Olmec Maya and the Acropolis of Teotihuacan A synopis of the Popol Vuh Re-Read Stokstad  Chapter 12 - Art of the Americas before 1300 Mencher Liaisons 49-50 & 91-99 (The Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life) Optional: The Entire Text of the Popol Vuh	Thursday November 27 Thanksgiving
Tuesday October 7 Take home Test on Classics Due   If you are late to class I will not accept this test it will be a zero Tuesday October 14 Gothic, and Early Renaissance Art Thomas Aquinas The Classic in the Gothic and Early Renaissance Early Renaissance and the Development of Perspective Perspectives: Linear   Mencher, Liaisons 101-109 The Treatise and Didactic Texts, Thomas Aquinas 159-162 Heroic Men, Giotto Pisano's Pulpit a transitional object. Berlinghieri, Cimabue, and Giotto Giotto's Biography Thursday October 16 Sculpture: Ghiberti Early Renaissance Painting in the The North Perspective in the North and South: Masaccio and Van Eyck Mencher Liaisons 15-21 (Selections from Genesis-Jacob and Esau) Sculpture: Ghiberti Optional:  Dr. Farber's Lecture on the Baptistry Doors The development of Perspective in Renaissance Art Leonardo: Man as the Measure of All Things From the Science Museum Website: Leonardo and Scientific Invention The psychology of Perspective The Renaissance in the North: Flanders Mencher, Liaisons109-112 Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) Il Cortegiano (The Courtier) Excerpts from "The First Book of the Courtier"  William Shakespeare c1600 excerpts from Hamlet  115-117 Read Sayre Chapter 20 The Renaissance through Baroque Chapter 3 The Themes in Art	Tuesday December 2 Get Real! Daumier, Courbet, Manet Color and Impressionism in France Read Mencher, Liaisons 313-336 Get Real: Flaubert's and Manet's Caged Birds Get Real: Daumier, Manet and Courbet Color_Basics Impressionism, Degas and Renior Impressionism, Cassatt and Degas Impressionism Monet Rodin Read "Liaisons" William Cullen Bryant: Forest Hymn pages 273-277 Kindred Spirits: The Americans in the 19th C Sayre, A World of Art, Chapter 7 Light and Color (reread) Chapter 4 Seeing the Value in Art Thursday December 4th Post Impressionism Cezanne and Seurat Van Gogh and Gaugin Picasso   Cezanne Seurat Van Gogh Gaugin Picasso and Beyond! Cubism Cezanne Seurat Sayre, A World of Art,  Chapter 22 The Twentieth Century
Tuesday October 21 Extra Credit: Second Writing Assignment Due This assignment will be used to possibly add 5% to your overall grade. Michelangelo (Sistine Chapel) Raphael, School of Athens Northern Printmaking and Painting During the Renaissance c1500's Read Mencher, Liaisons Heroic Men 159-176 Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel Raphael "School of Athens" Read Sayre Chapter 11 Printmaking The School of Athens (An interactive Website) Farber's Visual essay on Stanza della Segnatura Farber's Visual Essay on the "School of Athens" The Vatican Printmaking and the Northern Reformation Read Mencher, Liaisons  125-136 Martin Luther (1483-1546) "An Open Letter to The Christian Nobility" 1520 Thursday October 23 NO CLASS	Tuesday December 9 Dada and Surreal Movements Dada Surrealism I want my Dada! Duchamp Style The Dada Manifesto Hoch Dada Surrealism The Dada Manifesto Surrealism Bringin' home the Bacon Hello Dali Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water Bauhaus De Stijl Schröder-Schräder House, Utrecht Le Corbusier LeCorbusier -- Villa Savoye Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water Thursday December 11 Abstract Expressionism Pollock Color Field Painting Pop Art   What's Happening? and "Pop" Goes the Artist: "Dine"-ing Inn Performance Art Pop Art Pop Art too Hamilton, Warhol, Lichtenstein Mencher, Liaisons339 Excerpt from Beauty Pop Art three: Sculpture
Tuesday October 28 Thursday October 30 VISIT TO THE STANFORD MUSEUM Field Trip to Stanford Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University Please be on the front steps at 3:00pm sharp	Tuesday Dec 16 2:30-4:30 Final Exam Day Study Guide for Final Exam The final will consist of essay questions and will include vocabulary off of the worksheets,  identifications of some of the art you have looked at.

Fall 2008 Academic Calendar 

Event	Date
Deadline for new student applications in order to ensure earliest possible registration times	Monday, April 21
Registration for continuingstudents begins, based on Schedule for Registration; use WebAdvisor	Monday, April 30
Registration begins for new and former students with a completed application; use WebAdvisor	Monday, May 5
Holiday: Memorial Day (Ohlone College closed)	Monday, May 26
Deadline for K-12 applications in order to ensure earliest possible registration times	Monday, July 28
Registration begins for K-12 students with a completed application; use WebAdvisor	Monday, August 18
Extended Office Hours	Thursday, August 28 - Thursday, September 4
Holiday: Labor Day (Ohlone College closed)	Saturday, August 30 - Monday, September 1
Fall Semester Instruction Begins 1	Tuesday, September 2
Last day to add full-term class WITHOUT instructor's signature	Friday, September 5 *
Last day that students are added into classes from the waitlist	Friday, September 5
Last day to drop full-term class and be eligible for a refund 2	Wednesday, September 10
Last day to add full-term class (requires instructor's signature)	Monday, September 15
Last day to drop full-term class without a W grade	Monday, September 15
Last day to submit petition to audit full-term class	Monday, September 15
Last day to petition to complete class on a credit/no credit basis	Friday, September 26
Last day to apply (online using WebAdvisor) for Fall 2008 graduation or Certificate of Achievement 3	Thursday, October 9
Holiday: Veteran's Day (Ohlone College closed)	Tuesday, November 11
Last day to drop from full-term classes with a W grade	Tuesday, November 18
Holiday: Thanksgiving (weekday and weekend classes do not meet; Ohlone College closed)	Thursday, November 27 - Sunday, November 30
Last day of instruction	Friday, December 12
Final Exam Period - see complete Fall Final Exam Schedule	Saturday, December 13 - Friday, December 19
Deadline to request printed full grade report for pickup	Friday, December 19
Winter Break (Ohlone College closed)	Wednesday, December 24 - Monday, December 29; Wednesday, December 31; Thursday, January 1, 2009
Grades available via WebAdvisor; grades are posted as they are received	Monday, January 5
Spring Semester instruction begins	Monday, January 26