STUDY PROGRAMME
Painting and Visual Arts

AFAM CODE
ABAV3

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Drawing

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Drawing for Painting

CREDITS
8

APPROACH
Theoretical / project based

This course helps the students acquire efficient coordination between visual processes and their graphic translation, fostering incisive considerations about the phenomenology of representation. The goal is to let the students identify their own graphic style by experimenting with different techniques and languages, in relation to graphic signs.

The total credits for this course are 8, divided as follows:

• Basic Drawing: 5 CFA

• Illustration: 3 CFA

• The Basic Drawing module consists in a practical workshop aimed at deepening the “technical/expressive” medium that is drawing, and at raising incisive considerations on the conventions and foundations of representation. It will also pinpoint the central role played by drawing within the contemporary world of artistic production. Of peculiar importance are the group work aimed at the project development, and the collective debate about the outcomes.

• The Illustration module aims at encouraging and enhancing the graphic representation skills of the students, through exercises and in-depth practice that allow for the acquisition of new methods, as well as for the development of a personal modus operandi in drawing. The first phase, starting from fast and intuitive drawing, defines the basic elements for the creation of a personal style; in the second phase, thanks to the experimentation with different techniques, the students explore the various expression possibilities that are typical of their language.

• The Basic Drawing module works on two aspects: a practical one, revolving around practical experience linked to the idea of technical imagination, and a personal one, aimed at finding a personal language through the development of personal aptitudes and drawing as focused on creative processes as well as on technical details.

• The Illustration module aims at encouraging and enhancing the graphic representation skills of the students, through exercises and in-depth practice that allow for the acquisition of new methods, and the development of a personal modus operandi in drawing. The course helps the students identify their own graphic style, and develop their own visual language in drawing.

• Theoretical/project based classroom lectures

• Workshops

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

• Classroom debates and presentations

• Individual study and research

• Field trips (conferences, meetings, visits to exhibitions as organized by the professor or department)

Assessment is based on the overall competence of the students and may include:

• Oral exam

• Written exam

• Submission of papers, projects or research work

Further details on specific tests can be provided by the professor during the course. Assessment criteria include commitment, active participation and personal growth of the students over the course.

• Bert Dodson, Keys to Drawing, 1990.

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professor during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.