Course detail

Painting Experience

FaVU-4PEAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course is aimed at students for whom painting is not the main medium of their work, but who would like to expand their competence in the field of painting and learn to use the potential of classical painting techniques and processes within the framework of intermedia-based work. Practical experience in still life or model painting and consultation of their own work will enable students to refine their painting expression. By working with "realistic" painting, learners will gain the ability to look sensitively and thoroughly, and then transform what they see into surface and colour.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MgA. Vasil Artamonov

Department

Painting Studio 1 (AM1)

Entry knowledge

None.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credit is awarded on the basis of attendance and completion of assigned tasks. Further assessment will be done by individual and group crits.
Classes are held in the Painting 1 Studio in five-hour blocks. One unexcused absence is tolerated. Making up missed classes beyond the above mentioned framework takes place after agreement with the teacher in the form of alternative assignments.

Aims

The aim is to introduce students to basic painting techniques (oil, tempera) and painting practice. They should learn the basic habits of building a composition, mixing colours, working with paint in layers, etc. The exploration and better mastery of the means of painting expression as carriers of content should enable students to be as free as possible with the medium of painting.
The students will be able to master traditional painting disciplines such as still life painting and portraiture, and to choose adequate means of expression.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Rudolf Arnheim, “Visual Dynamics.” Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Ed. Michael Kelly. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. (EN)
Norman Bryson, Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting. Reaktion Books, 2017 (Illustrated edition). (EN)
Michel Fried, “Art and Objecthood.” Artforum, Summer 1967. pp.12-23. (EN)
E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960). 2d rev. ed. Reprint, Princeton, NJ, 1969. (EN)
Isabelle Graw, The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium. Sternberg Press 2018. (EN)
Johanes Itten. The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons. 1991 (EN)
W. J. T. Mitchell,“Word and Image.” In Critical Terms for Art History. Nelson, Robert S. and Schiff, Richard, eds. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Chapt. 4, pp. 47–57. (EN)
Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form. Translated by Christopher S. Wood. New York, 1991. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme FAAD Master's, 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Art studio work

30 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MgA. Vasil Artamonov

Syllabus

1. Composition and format of the painting
2. Colour
3. Underpainting and painting
4. Pastes and glazes
5. Treatment of painting