Learning outcomes
The entirety of the courses aims at informing and versing the student as regards the fundamental values and methods. Accordingly, the completion of the theoretical and applied courses equips the prospective picture maker with the necessary knowledge for the implementation of a compositionally controlled and correctly structured picture. The theoretical and applied learning process brings out and analyses the fields where the picture maker shall implement her or his compositional activity. This should lead to the understanding, acquisition, personal experience, and implementation or even transgression of the rules that form the ensuing personal quest and artistic completion.
General Competences
- Research, analyse and synthesize data and information
- Adapt to new situations
- Decision making
- Autonomous work
- Working in an international environment
- Exercise of criticism and self-criticism
- Project design and management
- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Promote free, creative and inductive thinking
Course Outline
Picture Composition introduces students to the structural logic of the picture by means of analysis of the compositional values and the presentation of compositional methods of picture making. According to the principle, that every creative picture, regardless of its theoretical and practical origin and aim, regardless of its medium, technique, content and theme, has to be found on some structural procedure, the course aims at documenting the compositional choices and quests of the artist.
Theoretical module
Taught material covers the fields: delimitation, optical centre, distance, composition, axes – frame, basis, balance, self-containment, homogeneity, contrast, movement, subject’s classification.
Applied module
Implementation of a thematic of exercises like free subject, key aspect/emphasis of a picture, dominant element out of five, composition within composition, contrast, movement of object, stillness of model, movement in portrait, same theme on a different basis, self-containment of peripheral elements of the composition, balance, spiral classification of five dominant elements in a composition.
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Pressas, H., (2010). “COMPOSING – Basic Principles of Picture Making”, Athens: ION Editions
- Kent, S., (1995). “COMPOSITION” London: Dorling Kindersley Limited
- Rankin Poore H., (1976). Pictorial Composition, Dover Publications
- Dow Wesley A., (2007) Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color, Dover Publications