STUDY PROGRAMME
Painting and Visual Arts

AFAM CODE
ABAV5

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Painting

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Design for Painting

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical / project based

This course presents a wide selection of technical-theoretical approaches to the contemporary artistic practice as a starting point for the students to create, deepen, and broaden their personal development path, by experimenting with new observation points and their translation into artistic projects. Front lectures alternate with sessions of working critique: time to have a dialogue and collective debate. Moreover, there will be meetings with professionals working within the art system, that will allow for a closer view of different experiences in the contemporary industry, as well as discussions with the students.

This course is made of a single module of 6 CFA credits.

• Organise and enhance technical-expressive as well as visual-communicative skills

• Acquire tools to create, deepen, experiment with and broaden a personal artistic path

The course starts from the students’ knowledge with practical exercises. Thereafter, each student will develop a personal project and make use of the newly acquired experience, the inputs coming from their own work, and from the comparison with the others’ work: they will research subjects through technique or vice versa, deepening their thinking through practice.

• 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.

• N. Mirzoeff, An introduction to Visual Culture, 2009.

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.