Course: Painting I

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Course title Painting I
Course code KVP/574
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kuriš Martin, doc. MgA. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to the semester - specification of technical and material requirements. 2. Objects - space, perspective, proportions. 3. Techniques and technologies of painting - assigning a semestral project. 4. Objects - colour. 5. Objects - light, shade, reflections. 6. Objects - structure: surfaces, textures, materials. 7. Objects - graphic shorthand, plurality, characteristics of the whole. 8. Aberration - suppression of space, colour inversion, decomposition. 9. Anthropocentrism in visual art - skull. 10. Study of a head - anatomic: characteristics, motion. 11. Study of a head - for a portrait. 12. Study of a head from the point of view of prehistoric or non-European art. 13. Study of a head - free.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
During the course, the students (both theoretically and practically) get acquainted with basic painting techniques and their application on grounds of various qualities. They use various painting techniques and their combinations, e.g. Indian ink, aquarelle, gouache, tempera, both dry and oil pastels, wax colours, etc. At the same time, they are taught to be able to decide themselves, which technology and painting technique is the most adequate one for the particular artistic task or assignment, and also, which way is the most convenient related to the slowly developing creative expression and opinion of the student's. Assignments get more difficult in time, from a still and an object up to a head and figure (figures, and half figures). The students can study an act according to a live model. The painting course is based on gradual cultivating the student's expression and style with emphasis on purposeful expression.
The student can work independently and initiatively on assigned partial tasks or the semestral work. The student is familiar with various options of processing the assigned tasks, and can set a (time, theoretical and practical) framework to be able to accomplish these tasks. The student can create a final work they have headed for in their studies and other painting or painting-related procedures, in the form designed by their own. The student can take an active part in tutorials with their teacher. They can develop a task comprehensively in terms of idea, technology and form. The student is able to present the work in the context of their own production, and also to reflect it in the context of the current trends in arts.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Realization, project
Recommended literature
  • GREENE, R. Internet Art. Londýn, Thames & Hudson, 2004.
  • Krausová, A. C. Dějiny malířství od Renesance k dnešku. Slovart, 1996.
  • Lucie-Smith, Edward. Artoday, Současné světové umění. Slovart, 1996.
  • Monografie a katalogy dle individuálního výběru a potřeb studenta. Monografie a katalogy dle individuálního výběru a potřeb studenta.
  • Mráz, B.; Mrázová, M. Encyklopedie světového malířství. Academia, Praha, 1988.
  • On-line katalogy knihoven. On-lne katalogy knihoven.
  • Pope, Arthur. The Language of Drawing and Painting. Russell and Russell Pub, 1968.
  • Read, Herbert. A Concise History of Modern Painting. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
  • Schwabsky, Barry. New Perspectives in Painting. Phaidon Press, 2004.


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