Undergraduate Course: Painting: exploring mixed media (LLLA07004)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
This course will explore and expand ways to develop and combine drawing, painting and mixed media to create studies and images, which aspire to the development of a distinctive personal visual language. Students will be challenged on the boundaries between 2 and 3 dimensions to create a series of related and resolved artworks. The emphasis will be on individuality and innovation to create a distinctive body of mixed works. |
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Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- RESEARCH
Demonstrate inventive strategies to expand ways to record visual information, themes and subjects using a sketchbook to create a range of mixed media artworks;
- PRACTICE
Exploit the expressive potential of drawing and combined visual media in a considered manner to create and resolve a personal project using mixed media practices.
- PRESENT
effectively select, edit and present a range of resolved and related art works by combining various media
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Reading List
Maslem, M. and Southern, J., 2011, Drawing projects : an exploration of the language of drawing, London: Black Dog Publishing Berger, J. and Savage, J., 2005, Berger on drawing, USA: Occasional Press
Rothfuss, J., 2003, Title: Past things and present : Jasper Johns since 1983, Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Centre
Cai, G.,1957, Cai Guo-Qiang, London: Thames and Hudson
Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, Helen Cooper
Kiki Smith: Her Home, Kerber Art
Terry Winters: Computation of Chains, Mathew Marks Gallery
Wilhelmina Barnes- Graham: Movement and Light Imag(in)ing, Tate St Ives.
Architecture and art : Atelier Chan Chan Is an Architecture and Art practice interested in the perception of space and its limits.
The Matrix exhibition: Robert Artschwager, Rosalie Gasgoigne, Terry Rosenberg
Kurt Schwitters, by Werner Schmalenbach, Thames and Hudson.
Sigmar Polke The Three Lies of Painting, Thames and Hudson.
Anselm Kiefer, 1997 Edixioni Charta, Italy
Burri by Carlo Pirovano, Italy
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Ability to make effective use of drawing and painting skills
Understanding of the requirements of working with mixed media
Knowledge and understanding of composition and design
Understanding of relief and 3d creative processes
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of mixed media within visual culture
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 4400
Email: s.landles@ed.ac.uk |
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