Undergraduate Course: Creating Images (LLLA07047)
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 will investigate the process by which artists find their subjects and how they invent original images. Students will learn to invent and develop subjects or themes for drawing, painting, print, illustration or design, by recording, collecting, editing and manipulating images and objects. Students will be taken through an intense series of developed drawing, painting and mixed media techniques, gaining practical insight into how artists ¿discover¿ their visual ideas to create a portfolio of compositional studies suitable for further study. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:
RESEARCH
demonstrate an enquiring work ethic and range of strategies for recording and developing visual information
PRACTICE
show resourcefulness and inventiveness in the use of materials and processes to create a range of visual studies and resolved image-based artworks
PRESENT
evidence independent judgment in the research, selection and editing of visual images
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Reading List
Recommended
MORSE, John D. 1972, Ben Shahn. Secker and Warburg
WEIGHT, C., 1982, Carel Weight RA, a retrospective exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts(Great Britain)
BONNARD, P. (1867-1947) 2006, Pierre Bonnard : the work of art, suspending time : Muse¿e d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2 February-7 May 2006, [chief curator Suzanne Page¿]
BOYD, A., 1969, Retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings and other work by Arthur Boyd, Demarco Gallery
TA¿PIES, A., Ta¿pies, Antoni, 1923-1972, Thames & Hudson, [text by] Ve¿ra Linhartova¿; [translated from the French by Anne Engel]
KIEFER, A., 2008, Bu¿cher : [anla¿sslich der Ausstellung "Anselm Kiefer. Bu¿cher", 18. Oktober-29. November 2008, Ausstellungsraum Celine und Heiner Bastian, Berlin-Mitte] / [Herausgeber: Heiner Bastian, Munchen.
IKEGAMI, H., 1973-2010, Great migrator : Robert Rauschenberg and the global rise of American art, Cambridge, Mass.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
- Pictorial compositional design
- Creating visual themes
- 2D creative thinking
- Ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of creative images within visual culture
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Ms Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 4400
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