Undergraduate Course: Expression and Abstraction (LLLA07138)
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 ONLY COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED
This course enables students to develop their own expressive language, exploring greater expressive abstract approaches to drawing and painting.
Through group and individual tuition, students will initially research and develop their own starting points. Students will explore a variety of taught and self-directed techniques to reveal and sustain abstract concerns derived from their own source material and research, underpinned by an understanding of composition and structure.
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| Course description |
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
Research and consider a range historically and contemporary approaches to visual abstraction using drawing and painting techniques
- PRACTICE
explore both taught and self directed techniques which develop a structured approach which consider the use of expressive abstraction
- PRESENT
develop and present a coherent series of related artworks which creatively explore a personal, expressive abstraction.
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Reading List
Collings, M. and Flowers East, 2001, British Abstract Painting 2001, Albany, USA: Momentum
Bayrle, T., 2002, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, London: Phaidon Publishing
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Ability to make effective use of drawing and painting skills
Ability to create expression, mood and character through observational practice
Understanding of composition and design
Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of painting within visual culture |
| 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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