Advanced Drawing Course
Teaching Staff: Verykios Spyridon
Course Code: VIS536
Course Category: Specific Background
Course Type: Elective
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Delivery method: Lectures
Semester: 5th΄
ECTS: 5
Teaching Units: 3
Teaching Hours: 3
E Class Page: https://opencourses.ionio.gr/courses/DAVA233/
Teaching Structure:
Activity | Semester Workload |
---|---|
Lab Lectures | 39 |
Literature Study and Analysis | 56 |
Practice and Preparation | 30 |
Course Total (ECTS: 5) | 125 |
Recquired / Recommended : VIS130, VIS230
The Advanced Drawing Course is aimed at students who wish to deepen their insight on issues of visual language and artistic methodology.
The course introduces a body of fundamental principles on decoding a work of art, whether it is a drawing, a photo, a graphic design application or a sequence of images.
Emphasis is given to the interpretation of pictorial elements as abstract symbols and on the methods of their constitution into functional aesthetic forms.
The Advanced Drawing Course offers students the possibility to deepen their understanding of form and issues related to visual arts language .
The aim of this course is to push students perception on art issues in new ways along with the formation of a fundamental syntax of visual communication.
1st Week: Pictorial Space
- Pictorial Space & axes
- Pictorial Space dynamics
- Positive & Negative Space
- Pictorial Space and Form
2nd week: Balance
- Axes and Balance
- Static Balance
- Dynamic Balance
- Absence of Balance
3rd week: Line
- Types of lines and their fuction
- Lines and axes
Week 4: Rhythm
- Types of rhythm
- Unity and Contrast
- Rhythm, positive and negative space
- Rhythm and absence of thematic focus
- Rhythm and thematic focus
Week 5: Expressive line
- Expressive rhythm
- Interpretative approach to form
6th Week: Movement
- Axes and Movement
- Rhythm and Movement
Week 7: Unity and contrast of forms
- Proximity
- Unity and directional opposition
- Unity and contrast of tones
- Unity and texture contrast
- Unity and color contrast
Week 8: Hierarchy of form
- Rythm and shape
- Proximity & Isolation
- Scale & Emphasis
- Position of form
Week 9: Tone
- Tone scales
- Tonal proportions
- Tone proximity
- Tone boundaries
10th Week: Color
- Impressionist Color
- Monochromatic Color
- Color scales, general principles
David Lauer/Stephen Pentak, Design Basics, Εκδόσεις Wadsworth Publishing 2008
Teel Sale/Claudia Betti, Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, Εκδόσεις Cengage Learning 2002
The course consists of a series of lectures, during which the elements of visual language and painting are introduced.
The work of visual artists is presented during the lectures, as a basis for understanding the conceptual framework of visual arts.
Students apply these principles trough a series of orchestrated exercises.
Enhanced by multimedia content.
The learning process is supported by the asyncrhonous e-learning platform e-class.
An evaluation questionnaire is filled and submitted anonymously by the students.
During the exams students submit artwork files that they carried out during the semester.
The evaluation of their work is based on quantitative and qualitative assessment in relation to the principles taught during the semester.
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