Course detail

Life Drawing for Exchange Students - winter

FaVU-LD-WAcad. year: 2019/2020

The course aims at students' improving of their figural drawing skills, emphasizing the correct construction of the figure, its proportion, anatomy, expression, and composition.

Bibliography:
Bammes, Gottfried: Der nackte Mensch, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1982
Hogarth, Burne: Dynamic Anatomy, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1990
Barcsay, Jeno: Anatomie artistique l'homme, Vincent, Fréal & Cie, Paris, 1960
Zrzavý, Josef: Anatomie pro výtvarníky, Avicenum, Praha, 1977

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

5

Offered to foreign students

The home faculty only

Learning outcomes of the course unit

A study, expressive drawing. Formal aspects are emphasized.

Prerequisites

Students have to have basic orientation in the human anatomy terminology as well as in morphology and antropology.
The have to be acquainted with the elements of linear perspective.
They have to be familiar with art history and be able to respond to the given examples from art history.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Seminar, exercise in drawing.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Presentation of completed works.

Course curriculum

The elementary drawing habits and the "hygiene" of drawing: distance, angle of view, horizon
The characteristics of various drawing materials and ways of drawing
Countour, line, and tone drawing
Fast drawings
Expressional and "free' drawing

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objectives of the course: students will acquire better drawing skills and techniques.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

seminar - 80% attendance mandatory

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Josef Zrzavý, Anatomie pro výtvarníky, Praha 1977

Recommended reading

Bammes, Gottfried: Der nackte Mensch, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1982
Hogarth, Burne: Dynamic Anatomy, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1990
Barcsay, Jeno: Anatomie artistique l'homme, Vincent, Fréal & Cie, Paris, 1960
Smith, Ray: Encyklopedie výtvarných technik a materiálů, Slovart, 2000

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer