Space and Audiovisual Media

The current course intends to define the notions of drawing space, point, line, plane as well as the principles of static image by focusing on the elements of tone, colour, texture, light and shadow; essential elements towards the composition of static image. The course consists of two parts: colour theory and head drawing. The course is articulated through several thematic areas such as colour theory, sound, synaesthesia as well as the notions of place and space; that aims to motivate the methodological boost of personal stylistic elements, imagination and expressive qualities.

The main aims of the course are the methodological approach of the elements of line, point, colour, light and shade; critically considered towards the expressive depiction of the final idea either in painting or head drawing.

Organizing - Curation of Teaching: Dr. Nikos Kokkalis

Week 1 (Course introduction)

1. Shaping the Course - Introduction in the work of Wassily Kandinsky
2. PRACTICE:  Shaping the Course - (Course Objectives - Imaging Methods - Measurement - Examples).

Week 2 

1. On Bauhaus (History - Goals - Laboratories)
2. PRACTICE: Introducting to Head Drawing Methods - Measurement - Examples. Proportions (I)

Week 3 

1. "Point-Line-Plane" Wassili Kandinsky
   Exercise: intersecting lines and shapes (various pencils).
   Music: Varese (Ameriques- Poeme electronic)
2. PRACTICE: Head Composition (ΙΙ)

Week 4 

1. Exercise: Triangles, Squares, Tonal Scale.
   Music: Arnold Schönberg (Verklärte Nacht, Three Piano Pieces, Op.11- Arnold Schönberg-Wassily Kandinsky: Music and Art Get One)
2. PRACTICE:Head Composition (ΙΙΙ)

Week 5 

1. Composition Goethe Triangle with Basic and Complementary Colours (Colour) 
2. Composition: Theme "FIRE" with Triangles and Warm Colours (Colour) - Music: Stravinsky
3. PRACTICE: Head Composition (IV)

Week 6 

    1. Color. Color circle. Basic - complementary colors.
        Exercise: Creating a Color Circle.
        Music: Giannis Christou (Persians - Enantiodromia)
    2. Reference: Giannis Christou, Strychnine Lady (Performance)

    3. PRACTICE: Head Composition (V)

Week 7 

    1. Triangles and warm colors
    Exercise: Fire
    Music: Stravinsky (The Firebird - Le Sacre du Printemps)
    2. Reference: Le Sacre du Printemps - Nijinsky-Version 1913 - Ballet Mariinski (Theater)

   3. PRACTICE: Head Composition (VI)

Week 8 

    1. Rectangular and cold colors
    Exercise: Sea
    Music: Debussy (La Mer)
    Reference: Debussy, Prelude to the Midlands of a Faune- Rudolph Nureyev (Ballet)

    3.PRACTICE: Head Composition (VII) 

Week 9 

1. Exercise: Air
   Music: Beethoven Agreement 6 (pastoral) Movement 4 & 5- Shakuhathu
   Reference: Parajanov, "The Color of Pomegranate".
2. PRACTICE: Head Composition (VIII)

Week 10 

    1.  Exercise: Earth
        Music: Varese, Desserts - Mahler, The Song of the Earth
        Reference: M. Antonioni (Zabriskie point)

    2.PRACTICE: Head Composition (VIV)

Week 11 

     1. Exercise: Space
         Music: Ligeti's "Aventures", Strauss "Also sprach Zarathustra"
         Reference: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Ligeti

     2. PRACTICE: Head Composition (X)

Week 12 

1.  Exercise: City
   Music: Phillip Glass
   Reference: Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (1982)
2. PRACTICE: Head Composition (XI)

Week 13 (Review)

     1. Exercise: Nature
         Music: Eduard Artemyev
         Reference: Andrei Tarkovsky: Mirror, Stalker

     2.PRACTICE: Head Composition (XII)

• 13 Lectures in PowerPoint Presentations
• Art practice through colour studies and compositions
• Compositions with Colour (Structure, Imagination, Concept)
• Compositions with Head Drawing (Composition, Proportions, Tone, Light-Shade)

Enhanced by multimedia content.
The learning process is supported by the e-learning platform, e-class.

Course assessment is implemented through presentation of compositions in Exams Period. In particular, elements of assessment include:

• all compositions (colour compositions and head drawing) which were made in class and Corfu Archaeological Museum)
• consistency during the course (attendance, progress, self-motivation)