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Undergraduate Course: Abstract Painting: Exploring Processes (LLLA07220)

Course Outline
SchoolCentre for Open Learning CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course focuses upon on abstract processes, exploring various methods and approaches to develop abstract concepts and ideas.
Course description Academic Description
This course focuses on exploring various abstract processes and methods to develop and push ideas beyond the expressive, focusing on process, materials and concepts. Through exploring various abstract approaches and possibilities, to develop a series of personal responses, students will create a body of work that consider and reveal specific tensions or relationships for colour, surface, compositions, materials, or formats to derive at an aesthetic quality for an idea.

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.

This course will use Learn for support and assessment.

Typically all Art and Design 10 credit Short Courses are delivered as follows:
- Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30 hours (10 x 3 hours per week)
- Directed Learning 30 Hours (10 x 3 hours per week)
- Independent Learning Hours 40 hours.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%): Evidence independent judgement in the documenting, selecting, editing and presenting a body of art works, revealing its value.
Reading List
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
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.
KeywordsPainting,abstraction,representation,expressive approaches,location,creative,sketchbook
Contacts
Course organiserMr Oliver Reed
Tel:
Email: Oliver.Reed@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk
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