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2024 Fall

STUDIO ART IN PRACTICE: ABSTRACT - ART378 Fall 2024


Course
Jana Babincova
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1. Course Description

The Art Advanced Studio course is a continuation of the Art Studio Research Project ART 388 with a focus on the realization process of the Final Art Project. Students follow the planned steps in their proposals. In addition to creating an art piece students communicate with the advisor on a regular basis in order to learn and include all the important principles of the academic approach to the creative process. The outcome of this course is the Final Exhibition. The course will take the form of collective and individual meetings where students will be presenting the progress of the work on their final project. The meetings will be designed accordingly to the themes explored by the students in their final proposals and based on individual approaches.


2. Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:

▪ gain knowledge about the production and organization of an art piece and exhibition
▪ develop skills in critical thinking, and writing. Work with a review format
▪ understand better what is the role of an artist in relation to the institution, the public, and historical context
▪ confidently communicate with the critics and the public
▪ design and execute their own extensive art project

Here is the course outline:

1. History of abstract art

Introduction of the course and the lecturer, introducing the practice of Jana Babincová. Presentation of the history of abstract art - important artists and movements.

2. Beyond the Visible

Contemporary abstract art presentation. Creating sketch books. Projection of the movie Hilma af Klint – Beyond the Visible, discussion, notes.

3. Spin the Wheel of Colors

Introductory color theory, creating own color palettes. Visit of the teachers´ art studio in Pragovka Art District.

4. See it from inside out

Introduction to abstract and conceptual painting, introduction to contemporary painting, the new forms of painting, experiments, digital and post-digital, painting crossing the media. After the presentation students draw the same content in 10 different ways. They choose one of the composition and bring it on a canvas. They choose or create the initial color palette.

5. Studio Work I

Introduction to work with acrylic colors and canvas. Composition principles, orthogonal lines, color palettes, rhythms of composition, different painting techniques in practice. Students present their first painting on canvas in progress. Share experience, thoughts, feelings.
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