The decision to study is a decision that entails saying goodbye to magic, as well as moving from audience to stage. It means no longer just observing or pondering but doing, analyzing and understanding.
Basis – A Knowledge-Expanding Foundation
Painting Track students also attend Painting and Photography Foundations classes, broadening their understanding of multidisciplinary art works and developing an open approach between the various art fields. Aimed at helping students make the most of this curriculum, the Basis School has developed a unique academic program designed to broaden horizons by integrating the study tracks of all departments. This activity references materials taught in all tracks, connecting between them and establishing their association with other worlds of content, both immediate and far-flung.
Basis – Building a Foundation to Your Future
In the latter years of the program students are encouraged to make personal curriculum choices, depending on their desires and art path, with the support and counsel of faculty.
Classes are taught by leading and accomplished artists and lecturers, and conducted in the new Basis building which provides students with one of the most advanced study environments in the art field.
Basis - A Multi-Dimensional Foundation
In addition to painting classes, students attend a range of complementary classes designed to expand their expertise, including a constructivist drawing class teaching 3-dimensional, geometric and organic drawing, a skill required in painting for sketching ideas for personal use and presentation. An analytical composition class develops spatial visualization and analysis of work component relations. Classes in poetry, music, digital thinking, and others expand understanding of the core concepts relevant to all plastic art mediums and other art forms, and an art history class is also taught in the in a unique way.
What transforms a scrap of paper or fabric into a painting? What role does knowledge play when faced with intuition, and how does one develop the confidence to restate meanings already conveyed? How do you deepen knowledge without becoming subjugated to it, and how do you combine knowledge and intuition to recreate magic?
Basis - A Painting Foundation
The Basis Painting Track offers a unique study curriculum; the first two years include three concurrent foundational courses taught by a number of teachers, all leading artists, who have different approaches but one common goal of providing students with a broad and comprehensive understanding of painting. This philosophy encourages students early in their studies to find their own path and their own personal place in art.