Undergraduate Course: Painting Edinburgh (LLLA07152)
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 enables students to make a series of studies working on location in and around Edinburgh to be developed in the studio through investigations into the work of artists who reference the urban landscape such as Carol Rhodes, Jock McFadyen, Joan Eardley and Peter Doig. Students will become familiar with the techniques, creative processes and visual forms particular to the artists and make a series of explorative studies and paintings. Students will develop their own personal responses informed by contextual sources demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding. |
| Course description |
Over the weeks the course will cover:
Introduction and familiarisation with artists¿ work depicting the Urban Landscape
Develop understanding of artists¿ work through practical experiment. Become familiar with specialist terms and vocabulary
On location. Drawing and gathering visual information from the Urban Landscape
On location. Continue gathering visual information from the Urban Landscape
Reflect on investigations. Own ideas provide a starting point for exploration, working with appropriate materials, techniques and processes and build on critical understanding
Develop own ideas in paintings and visual forms
On Location. Review ideas and further explore visual resources
Sustaining development and exploration of the resources
Working towards an informed response making connections with featured artists¿ work and the urban landscape
Complete responses and critical group review
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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 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 12 |
| Course Start |
Lifelong Learning - Session 3 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 27,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
71 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art and/or design works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved art and/or design works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness through a completed sketchbook and/or visual journal. The work 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. Typically, this will comprise:
Class Contact hours: 27.5 (work done during the class)
Directed hours: 27.5 (work the tutor has set for students to do each week in their own time)
Independent Study Hours: 45 (work students set themselves to do, relevant to the discipline studied)
The combined submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted 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.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to:
RESEARCH
Use a visual sketchbook/journal to research, record and reflect on the investigative process and understand how artists respond to the Edinburgh landscape in their work through the selection of appropriate resources, materials, techniques and processes
- PRACTICE
Demonstrate an ability to use specialist terms, vocabulary and techniques and materials make purposeful explorations and paintings of Edinburgh
- PRESENTATION
Develop their own ideas in paintings and visual forms to show an informed, analytical and cultural understanding and present an individual response making connections with the contextual sources
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Reading List
Essays by LUBBOCK. T and JAMES. M. (2007). Carol Rhodes. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
COHEN. D, (2001). Jock McFadyen: a book about a painter/ David Cohen with Lewis Biggs.
Lund Humphries: Aldershot (1982) Edinburgh: the grand panorama of Edinburgh: as seen in a walk around Calton Hill in 1847. Paul Harris Publishing
CROWE. V. (2005). On reflection/ introduction by Mike Walton. London: Thackery Gallery
Pearson, F., 2007 Joan Eardley, Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland
Virtue, J., Schama, S., Moorhouse, P. and Wiggins, C., 2005, John Virtue: London paintings, London: National Gallery.
The Scottish Gallery. Available from http://www.scottishgallery.co.uk/artist/henry_kondracki
The Fruitmarket Gallery. Available from
http://fruitmarket.co.uk/exhibitions/archive/air-iomlaid/
Bourne Fine Art. Available from http://www.bournefineart.com/Artist/p/artist/960
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
using a sketchbook as an artist¿s/designer¿s tool
recording and developing visual ideas
effective use of drawing, painting and mixed media
ability to undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of the sketchbook within visual culture
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Sherrey Landles
Tel: (0131 6)50 3003
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