Course detail
Painting Experience
FaVU-4PEAcad. year: 2024/2025
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
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
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 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
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form. Translated by Christopher S. Wood. New York, 1991. (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)
Michel Fried, “Art and Objecthood.” Artforum, Summer 1967. pp.12-23. (EN)
Norman Bryson, Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting. Reaktion Books, 2017 (Illustrated edition). (EN)
Rudolf Arnheim, “Visual Dynamics.” Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Ed. Michael Kelly. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. (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)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme FAAD Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Art studio work
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Colour
3. Underpainting and painting
4. Pastes and glazes
5. Treatment of painting