Assessment in Painting

Tyler is Ranked among the top 10 M.F.A. programs in Painting by U.S. News and World Report. Our Program provides the skills and concepts essential to your artistic growth. The faculty has designed a pattern of studio and seminar courses that fosters the development of pictorial concepts realized in the tangible form of painting and drawing.

BFA in Painting Key Learning Outcomes

  • Mastery of the craft of drawing and painting, knowledge and experience of the full range of possibilities of the various materials and methods both traditional and newly developed.
  • Ability to analyze works of art, to evaluate them critically and to understand the context in which work is made and viewed.
  • Ability to understand the formal aspects of painting and drawing and apply them to a specific aesthetic intention.
  • Understanding the conventions of the discipline
  • Understanding the issues of representation and abstraction
  • Understanding how meaning is created by the integration of formal, technical and conceptual decisions.
  • Exploration of the expressive possibilities if the discipline with the knowledge of the full range of conceptual modes and material manipulations possible.
  • Understanding how innovations in the field are the outcome of first acknowledging and then questioning existing boundaries and conventions.
  • Ability to articulate ideas in written and oral formats. Development of artist statements and grant proposals.
  • Ability to work independently, identify areas of research towards the development of a focused and personal direction.
  • Understanding the discipline of painting as it relates to other forms of cultural production in a contemporary, multicultural and international field

MFA in Painting Key Learning Outcomes

  • Mastery of the craft of drawing and painting; knowledge and experience of the full range of possibilities of the materials and methods, both traditional and newly developed.
  • Ability to work independently. identify areas of research towards the development of a focused and individual direction.
  • Ability to analyze works of art, to evaluate them critically and to understand the context in which work is made and viewed.
  • Ability to understand the formal aspects of painting and drawing and apply them to a specific aesthetic intention. This consists of understanding the conventions of the disciplines, the issues of representation and abstraction, and how meaning is created by the integration of formal, technical and conceptual decisions.
  • Exploration of the expressive possibilities of the discipline with the knowledge of the full range of conceptual modes and material manipulations possible.
  • Understanding how innovations in the field are the outcome of first acknowledging and then questioning existing boundaries and conventions.
  • Knowledge of historical precedents in the discipline.
  • Knowledge of theories of visual representation, including modern and post-modern critical theory.
  • Awareness of the most current developments in the discipline.
  • Ability to articulate ideas in written and oral formats. development of thesis statements, grant proposals and scholarly papers/ability to work independently, identify areas of research towards the development of focused and individual direction/understanding the discipline as it relates to other forms of cultural production in a contemporary, multicultural and international field.