Undergraduate Course: Abstract Painting: Representation to Abstraction (LLLA07221)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 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 explores methods, approaches and processes, discovering a creative and expressive territory between representation and abstraction to deconstruct the representational.
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| Course description |
Academic Description
This course will introduce students to a series of short projects, explored through a range of painting approaches that consider scale, materials, processes, atmospheres and moods. You will explore ideas that are on the cusp of representation, moving them into something more abstract. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own ideas through a personal project, using these as a catalyst for new directions within their works.
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 studio, point of reference, location-based and personal references.
- Working with a palette knife
- Working on various scales.
- Employ the use of collage.
- Exploration of colour palettes, exploring atmosphere and mood.
- Exploration of composition, formats and editing.
- Employing the use of mono-prints to aid the development of ideas.
- Exploration of working on various painting surfaces and grounds.
- Experimentation with non-traditional painting tools.
- Use photographic references to support ideas and project themes.
- A series of demonstrations and discussion relating to each of the exercises.
- 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)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Unless otherwise stated, all students on this short course pay a published course fee per enrolment.
Mono-printing equipment and materials.
Newsprint.
In addition to the course fee, students are expected to provide the following list of indicate tools, materials and equipment:
- Graphite Stick 4b
- Plastic rubber
- Masking tape
- Craft knife
- Sketchbook A4
- Chalk Pastels
- Newsprint & Cartridge paper (as required)
- Indian and/or Quink ink
- One-sided card or painting Card or Acrylic Painting Paper.
- Collage materials (to collect and use throughout the course)
- Range of Acrylic paints: Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean, Black, White (at least 250ml pot), Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber, (other colours as required during the course).
- Mixing Palette
- Palette Knife
- Sponge and rags
- A digital camera
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Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas (33.3%): Use a range of drawing and painting strategies to routinely record, research, making visual enquiries through the use of the sketchbook.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%): Demonstrate a practical knowledge in employing a range of painting methods and approaches, appropriate to creating a range of expressive studies and resolved pieces of artwork.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%): Demonstrate an awareness of how to document, select and edit a range of paintings for presentation.
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Reading List
Suggested Readings
BANCROFT, S.C. & DEVANEY, E. 2015. Richard Diebenkorn. Royal Academy of Arts, London.
LAMPERT, C. 2015. Frank Auerbach. Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd.
SCHAMA, S. 2005, John Virtue London Paintings, National Gallery, London.
DAVEY. R. 2014. Anselm Kiefer. Royal Academy of Arts, London.
ALLTHORPE-GUYTON, A., TUCKER, M., LAMPERT, C. 2009. Ian McKeever (Histories of Vision S.). Lund Humphries
BERGER, J., 1972, Ways of seeing, London: BBC Books.
BAYRLE, T. 2002. Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting. Phaidon Publishing.
KHOROCHE, P. 1989. Ivon Hitchens forty-five paintings. Serpentine Gallery.
HAMMER, M. 1999. Graham Sutherland: Landscapes, War Scenes, Portraits 1924-1950. Scala Publishers Ltd.
DOIG, P. 207. Peter Doig (Contemporary Artists). Phaidon Press.
Web Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh6QbJNvWZE
www.artforum.com
www.balticmill.com
www.tate.org.uk
www.frieze.com
http://www.turpsbanana.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 | Drawing,Painting,abstraction,mono-print,representation,expressive approaches,creative |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr John Ethcuit
Tel: (0131 6)50 3409
Email: jethcuit@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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