德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校人文学院艺术与艺术史系的使命是提供和鼓励视觉艺术和艺术史教育。该课程通过对专业，理论，视觉和分析过程的理解为学生提供广泛的教育。为了帮助学生理解视觉艺术的基本性质，界限，方法和技术，该系提供了广泛的媒体和方法论。学生将能够在许多独特而激动人心的媒体上创作作品，并在艺术，历史，社会和文化的背景下表达出对作品的理解。<br> <br>探索二维表示图像的技术始于训练眼睛以不同的方式识别对象，研究平面，轮廓和透视图以在平面上准确表示对象-绘图需要视觉和概念技能。因此，对绘画中表达方式的复杂认
Exploring techniques for representing images two dimensionally begins with training one’s eye to discern an object in a different way, studying planes, contours, and perspective to accurately represent an object on a flat surface - drawing requires both visual and conceptual skills. As such, a complex awareness of expressive means in drawing is essential to communicating a personal vision through imagery. It is this visual expression that must be developed in order to see, think, respond and in the end, create. Through the exercise of drawing, visual awareness and acuity increases. It strengthens the ability to perceive two and three-dimensional development within the Division of Fine Arts. Although essential to all graphic disciplines, a solid, well-rounded exposure to the various elements and concepts of drawing is integral to a comprehensive development in Fine and Studio Art.<br><br>Students should be able to use drawing as a means to explore ideas and within which to develop a “voice”. This will be achieved not by simply learning to develop rendered images from observation, but from creating work that reflects individual ideas and facility and familiarity with materials and techniques. There should be a developing understanding, as the student progresses through the drawing courses, of the ways in which artists project and evolve a personal point of view through the various choices each artist makes in the quality of their marks, materials used, what is included and omitted from an image, placement within a composition, etc.