Undergraduate Course: Abstract Painting: Developing a Personal Expression (LLLA07219)
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 aims to develop students' expressive painting language, through a series of directed and personal themes, exploring an experiential approach to painting. |
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Academic Description
This course focuses on developing a sense of expression, exploring the use of colour and how, from a personal and emotional perspective, can alter a sense of atmosphere or mood, expressing an alternative interpretation for a theme or subject. By gathering a range of references, you will develop and evolve ideas through various expressive and abstract painting approaches to produce a series of works that create a body of personal responses 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.
- Create versions of ideas through various atmosphere and moods.
- Explore and create versions for ideas through the use of colour.
- Exploration of composition, formats and editing.
- Employing the use of mono-prints to aid the development of ideas.
- Working on various painting surfaces and grounds.
- Use photographic references to collage and 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)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas (33.3%) - Demonstrate a range of drawing and painting approaches and strategies for recording and developing visual information, supported by contextual research.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%) - Show a confident and enquiring use of painting materials and processes to create a range of personal and expressive visual studies and resolved pieces.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%) - Demonstrate an appropriate judgement to document, select, edit and present a body of paintings to reveal its value.
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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.
BAYRLE, T. 2002. Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting. Phaidon Publishing.
KHOROCHE, P. 1989. Ivon Hitchens forty-five paintings. Serpentine Gallery.
Saatchi Gallery, 2005. Triumph of Painting: Saatchi Gallery, London. Jonathan Cape.
BUTIN, H. 2014. Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965-2013. Hatje Cantz.
SEITZ, W.C. 1962. Mark Tobey. Museum of Modern Art.
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,mono-print,location,creative,sketchbook |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Oliver Reed
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Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
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