Undergraduate Course: Abstract Painting 4: Abstraction Applied (LLLA07191)
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 allows students to apply their knowledge of abstract concepts and approaches to a sustained body of directed and personal research.
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| Course description |
Academic Description
This course draws upon the skills developed from Abstract 3: Abstract Approaches. Allowing space and time for the student to develop a more personal and sustained body of research for a subject, in order to explore and develop abstract and conceptual possibilities for a body of personal and resolved work.
Outline of Content
The course teaching is typically delivered over weekly class sessions of around 3 hours each and totalling 30 hours. Alternatively, the course can be delivered more intensely or as a block if required.
Over the class sessions the course will cover:
Use of the sketchbook for recording, researching and evidencing work.
Developing a sustained body of research through a series of visual and investigative approaches, concepts and ideas.
Working on location to gain first hand reference and to explore various themes and ideas.
Employ the use of collage, print, found images and/or motifs.
Exploration of composition, formats and editing.
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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed
Abstract Painting 1: Expressive Approaches (LLLA07194) AND
Abstract Painting 2: Expression Applied (LLLA07193) AND
Abstract Painting 3: Abstract Approaches (LLLA07192)
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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.
In addition to the course fee, students are expected to provide the following list of indicate tools, materials and equipment:
Compressed and willow charcoal
Graphite Stick 4b
Plastic rubber
Masking tape
Craft knife
Sketchbook A4
Chalk Pastels
Indian and/or Quink ink
Newsprint
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%) Demonstrate an enquiring work ethic and range of personal strategies for recording and developing visual ideas and concepts, integrated with a range of relevant contextual research.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) Demonstrate a range of imaginative and inventive approaches to explore the possibilities within painting, to create a range 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 an independent and appropriate judgement in the documentation, selection, editing and presentation of a body of art works to reveal its value.
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Learning Resources
Suggested Readings
STANGOS, N. 1981. Concepts of Modern Art. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
SOLOMON, R. 1957. Piet Mondrian: the Earlier Years. New York.
LANDAU, E. 1989. Jackson Pollock. Thames & Hudson.
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.
ECCHER, D. 2007. Sean Scully: A Retrospective. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
HUGHES, R., 1991, The Shock of the New: Art and the century of change, London: Thames and Hudson.
ALLTHORPE-GUYTON, A., TUCKER, M., LAMPERT, C. 2009. Ian McKeever (Histories of Vision S.). Lund Humphries.
FOSTER, R.K.H.,BENJAMIN H.D. YVE-Alain BOIS, D.J. 2012. Art Since 1900: Modernism · Antimodernism · Postmodernism. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
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,resea |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Robbie Bushe
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Course secretary | Mr David Lonergan
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
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