Undergraduate Course: Abstract Painting 3: Abstract Approaches (LLLA07192)
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 course focuses upon deconstructing the representational, engaging in abstract concepts, exploring the space between the observed and an inner space.
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| Course description |
Academic Description
This course focuses on developing a series of working methods to deconstruct the representational, moving ideas beyond the expressive approaches explored within Abstract 1 and Abstract 2, bridging the space between the observed and an inner world. Experimenting with, and employing the use of language, colour, collage and painting processes to engage in a series of directed and personal references, forging and exploring abstract possibilities, developing a personal language.
Outline of Content
The course teaching is typically delivered over weekly class sessions of around 3 hours each and totaling 30 hours. Alternatively, the course can be delivered more intensely or as a block if required.
Over the class sessions the course will cover:
Introduction to the use of the sketchbook for recording, researching and evidencing work.
Develop a series of works derived through directed, location-based and personal references.
Exploration of text and image to explore ideas.
Employ the use of collage and motifs.
Exploration of using Mind-maps and lists.
Exploration of composition, formats and editing.
Developing a series of mono-prints to aid the development of ideas.
Exploration of working on various painting surfaces and grounds.
Use photographic references to support ideas and project themes.
A series of discussions and group critiques relating to the various exercises and project themes.
Introduction to a range of relevant artists.
Keep a log/blog during the period of the course to record learning, achievements and challenges.
The Learning Experience
The teaching will be based and delivered in specialist art and design studios or workshops and will typically include a range of practical exercises, introductions to techniques, processes and concepts, and set projects which lead to more focused and personal exploration. Over the course, students¿ progress will be monitored and supported by the tutor. Teaching will include practical demonstrations, one to one tuition, group discussions and critiques.
For work required to be undertaken after the class hours are complete, the course tutor will set students a ¿directed study plan¿ which can be undertaken without the need for specialist workshops or access to models.
Directed study will include research into a range of suggested artists and their associated movements to engender a contextual awareness. Students are expected to demonstrate how their research has informed their work through annotated sketchbooks, a visual digital journal and practical outcomes.
The Directed Study Plan will include preparing evidence of research and practical work to form an appropriate presentation for assessment.
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas (33.3%) Demonstrate an enquiring work ethic and range of personal strategies for recording and developing visual ideas and concepts, showing the beginnings of appropriate contextual research.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Demonstrate a range of painting approaches, methods and processes to create a body of focused and coherent visual studies, which underpin the research of abstract representations through to the resolved works.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) Evidence independent judgement in the documenting, selecting, editing and presenting a body of art works, revealing its value.
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Learning Resources
Suggested Readings
STANGOS, N. 1981. Concepts of Modern Art. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
SOLOMON, R. 1957. Piet Mondrian: the Earlier Years. New York,
COLLINGS, M. 2001. British Abstract Painting 2001, Albany NY, Momentum.
MOORHOUSE, P. 1998 Albert Irvin: Life to Painting. Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd.
BANCROFT, S.C. & DEVANEY, E. 2015. Richard Diebenkorn. Royal Academy of Arts, London.
SEITZ, W.C. 1962. Mark Tobey. Museum of Modern Art.
LANDAU, E. 1989. Jackson Pollock. Thames & Hudson.
ECCHER, D. 2007. Sean Scully: A Retrospective. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
BERGER, J., 1972, Ways of seeing, London: BBC Books.
HUGHES, R., 1991, The Shock of the New: Art and the century of change, London: Thames and Hudson.
FOSTER, R.K.H.,BENJAMIN H.D. YVE-Alain BOIS, D.J. 2012. Art Since 1900: Modernism · Antimodernism · Postmodernism. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
ALLTHORPE-GUYTON, A., TUCKER, M., LAMPERT, C. 2009. Ian McKeever (Histories of Vision S.). Lund Humphries.
BUTIN, H. 2014. Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965-2013. Hatje Cantz
HESS, B. 2004. Willem De Kooning (Basic Art Album). Taschen.
Web Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh6QbJNvWZE
www.artforum.com
www.balticmill.com
http://www.turpsbanana.com
www.tate.org.uk
www.frieze.com
www.nationalgalleries.org
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
The ability to employ the use of the sketchbook to explore and develop lines of visual enquiry.
The ability to explore visual ideas through various practical drawing and painting techniques, methods and approaches.
The ability to make independent judgments on the selecting, editing and documentation of their work, showing an insight into critical context and reflective practice.
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| Keywords | Painting,abstraction,representation,expressive approaches,location,creative,sketchbook,resea |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Lonergan
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
Email: David.Lonergan@ed.ac.uk |
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