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VISUAL ARTS APPLICATIONS

Course Code:

Π-6030

Semester:

6st Semester

Specialization Category:

ΜΕΥ

Course Hours:

4

ECTS:

5


Learning outcomes

With the completion of all four theoretical and applied course cycles the student is versed in aesthetically and technically new experimental fine art methods and has grasped the means, which will enable him or her to seek personal creative ways. The experience gained therein may fundamentally augment the furthering of personal deliberation/contemplation and expression.

 

General Competences

  • Decision-making
  • Working independently
  • Team work
  • Project planning and management
  • Criticism and self-criticism
  • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
  • Improvisation – Inventiveness

 

Course Outline

The course aims at bridging aesthetically and technically the immediate and automated image creation of digital and analogue technical means with the artistic, immediate, hand made creation. By means of research and experimentation new – aesthetic, conceptual, and technical – artistic results in actual expression are being achieved.

 

Theoretical module

Art forms, art as information, art in everyday life, art as personal expression. Observation and visual thinking. Experimental aesthetics and techniques. The art of children. Presentation of the techniques of: Roy Lichtenstein, Rene’ Magritte, Sanford Darling, C. Escher, Louise Nevelson, Chema Madoz, James Rosenquist, Richard Hamilton, Alexander Calder, Christo, Robert Smithson, David Hockney, Frank Stella, Joel Meyerowitz, Romare Bearden,  etc. Constructions, Installations, Minimal Art, Land Art, Conceptual Art, elements of Scenography.

 

Applied module

1st cycle. Creation of compositions with the technique of collage using primarily pictures out of magazines and newspapers.
2nd cycle. As above but with painting and mixed media interventions in the works with mixed techniques and experimentations.
3rd cycle. Implementation of exercises with painting and mixed media interventions using original photography as raw material.
4th cycle. Introduction in 3D constructions and interventions, Elements of scenography.

 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Pressas, H., (2011). “VISUAL ARTS APPLICATIONS Creating With Parallel Expressive Media” Athens: ION Editions
  • Frank, P., (2009). “Prebles’ ARTFORMS” New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.