Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

Painting, in its broadest sense, has relevance to all art disciplines. It provides us with a means to express our ideas and to develop a personal visual language. The versatility of painting media is explored in this module through practical classes, workshops, demonstrations, lectures and assignments. It introduces the techniques, processes, methods and materials that enable the student to not only record but to make a personal response to the world around us.

Over ten weeks of essential practice, students will be introduced to the vocabulary and grammar of painting as an end in itself as well as its application in Photography and Illustration.

Through the study of original artworks in the School of Art Museum, students will learn to identify and analyse a wide range of artists’ materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Lectures will be delivered by staff from different disciplines to provide a greater appreciation of the rationale of painting and its application to all media.

Using the human form as the unifying theme complements the core art history module AH10610 Representing the Body that also runs during Semester 2. It reinforces the connection between history, theory and practice as well as provides a basis for project work, thus forming a more cohesive student learning experience.

The structure allows for the accumulative acquisition of skills as students ready themselves for the second year of their studies

This module comprises weekly lectures on techniques, methods and processes common to the disciplines of Painting, Photography and Illustration as well as other disciplines taught at the School of Art. The syllabus broadly connects with themes explored in the core art history module AH10610 Representing the Body to provide a themed approach to painting practice.

1. Lecture: Introduction to Painting. The Versatility of Paint and its Relevance Today.
Practical (Painting): Properties of Paint and Mediums, application techniques.
Practical (Illustration): The Figure in Motion.

2. Lecture: Illustration and the Human Form.
Practical (Painting): Colour Mixing, optical properties of colour.
Practical (Illustration): Creating believable characters.

3. Lecture: Seeking Colour.
Practical (Painting): Creating Form, Tone and Colour.
Practical (Illustration): Clothing the Figure.

4. Lecture: The Portrayal of Flesh.
Practical (Painting): Flesh Tones. Life Studies using Limited Palette.
Practical (Illustration): Working with Reference.

5. Lecture: Figures in Context.
Practical (Painting): Figure Compositions.
Practical (Illustration): Compositional storytelling.

6. Tutorials, Seminar and Group Tutorials.

7. Lecture: Photography and the Figure.
Practical (Painting): Life studies.
Practical (Photography): The Pinhole Camera.

8. Lecture: Depiction of Human Form in other Cultures.
Practical (Painting): Life Painting, the single pose.
Practical (Photography): Pinhole photography and positive-negative processing in the darkroom.

9. Lecture: Monotype, The Painterly Print.
Practical (Painting): Makings Monotypes.
Practical (Photography): Camera-less Photography, Photograms.

10. Lecture: Portraiture.
Practical (Painting): Headshot Portrait Studies
Practical (Photography): Cliché Verre, painting with light in the darkroom.

11. Lecture: Abstracting the Figure.
Practical (Painting): Abstraction techniques.
Practical (Photography): Sun-painting, the Cyanotype.
Group Tutorial and review of all the work made on this part of the module.