Undergraduate Course: Abstract Painting: Exploring Processes (LLLA07220)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
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 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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 12 |
| Course Start |
Lifelong Learning - Session 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30,
Formative Assessment Hours 3,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
62 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formative Assessment (required for all credit courses).
(Occurs in weeks 6 or 7 of the 10 week course)
A formative assessment session will occur in week 6 or 7 of the taught element of the course. Each student will undertake a 5 minute verbally presentation with their practical work in progress to other members of the class group followed by a 5 minute group critique supported by the course tutor. Each student will also electronically submit their work in progress digital journal to the course tutor.
Indicative and supportive feedback will be summarised in written form on the digital journal which will give an indication of what areas requires to be address in order to meet the published learning outcomes. This will comprise of short written summary of action points.
Summative Assessment
(Occurs at least 2 weeks after the last taught class)
Two weeks after the end of the class teaching, this course will be assessed by the submission of:
A digital journal documenting a summary of the learning journey as evidenced in the portfolio
(Indicate time spent: 20 hours)
This will include a summary of idea development, media exploration, contextual research, critical reflection and outcomes through notes, annotation, illustration and photography.
A portfolio of visual art/design works
(Indicate time spent: 80 hours)
This will include a selection of resolved design works, sketchbook works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness.
The Digital Journal and Portfolio must be presented in a clear and professional manner appropriate to the discipline. The submission should include work undertaken within the class as well as directed and independent study out with the class.
The combined Digital Journal and Portfolio submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted (33.3% each) and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.
This course is assessed against three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted and each will be given a percentage grade. |
| Feedback |
Formative Assessments
This will comprise of short written summary of action points of areas requiring addressing to meet the learning outcomes, but no indicative grades will be given.
Summative Assessments
On completion the assessment, each student will receive a % mark for each learning outcome along with written feedback putting in context the % mark and outlines areas for development.
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| No Exam Information |
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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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
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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 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Oliver Reed
Tel:
Email: Oliver.Reed@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk |
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