Undergraduate Course: Painting 3 (ARTX09040)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Course type | Standard | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) | 
Credits | 40 | 
 
| Home subject area | Art | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
None | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | Indicative course content 
Studio based where students are expected to initiate and develop an individual approach to their own practice through risk taking and experimentation. 
 
Aims of course 
1 To clearly identify and select areas of interest and to develop a personal language. 
2 Develop a range of appropriate methods of production that utilise a combination of personal approaches and relevant knowledge of current practice. 
3 To take responsibility in the development of a body of work that shows ambition and critical reflection. 
 
Mode of delivery 
Studio based, tutorial, group crit, individual crit, exhibition and review | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:  
1. Present a body of work that shows a clearly identified personal approach.  
2. Demonstrate evidence of experimentation and development of appropriate methods of production. 
3. Present evidence of critical reflection and ambition in the development and production of a body of work.  | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
Portfolio 
Presentation 
Exhibition |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
| Academic description | 
Not entered | 
 
| Syllabus | 
Not entered | 
 
| Transferable skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Reading list | 
Indicative Bibliography  
Vitamin P : New Perspectives in Painting : Phaidon, 2002. Talking Painting, David Ryan, Routledge 2002. Locus Solus, Site, Identity, Technology in Contemporary Art, Black Dog 2000. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting, Liverpool University press, 2003. Colour after Klein, (Re thinking colour in Contemporary art) Black Dog, 2007 Periodicals: Turps Banana, Art World, Art Forum, Modern Painters, Art in America, Parkett. Also as directed by studio tutors. | 
 
| Study Abroad | 
Not entered | 
 
| Study Pattern | 
Contact hours 50 hours 
Directed study 150 hours 
Self-directed study 200 hours 
Total 400 hours | 
 
| Keywords | EXPERIMENTATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INITI | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Mr Gordon Brennan 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5902 
Email:  | 
Course secretary | Mrs Margaret Milner 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5879 
Email:  | 
   
 
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