Class Painting II

THIS CU IS ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PAINTING TECHNIQUE AND CONCEPTUAL THINKING BASED ON THE LANDSCAPE IMAGINARY

The contents of this UC are:

- 1 Visual research exercise where the images of the History of Art are adequated to the canonical typologies of Landscape. Group work.

Painting exercises by observation and imagination, about Landscape's canons and developments:

- 7 medium format paintings: sktech expression (1 painting per week). Media and supports to be chosen by students.

- Expressive gesture of painting;

- scale of the representation of far and near;

- aerial and geometric perspective;

- chromatic acuity in light and dark;

- chromatic refinement in the representation of the composition elements;

- composition (im)balances;

- acquisition of a painting expression to distinguish elements pictorially.

- 1 large format painting (5 weeks). Media and supports to be chosen by students.

- Shading;

- overlays;

- inkbody reinforcement;

- corrections of perspective and cromatic schemes.

- 1 personal project (homework) and in CU Painting Studio (tutorial)

The relevant pedagogical methodology in this CU is tutorial contact. The individualised approach aims to broaden visual culture and stimulate the development of languages and technical procedures, critical vision and research methodologies. The tutorials are conversations about the concepts underlying the objectives to be achieved: conceptual references, examples of works by national and international artists relevant to each case, and bibliography are indicated for the conception of the artistic proposal in order to broaden the vision of each student, individually. The critical and self-critical capacity is valued through collective discussions in the classroom where processes and results in the realisation of each exercise are discussed, promoting the use of appropriate technical terminologies. When relevant, there are theoretical sessions, artist visits (in and out) and study visits to complement the artistic context on relevant themes and events.

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COSGROVE, D. (s.d). Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea. London:  Institute of British Geographers

DA VINCI, L. (2005). El tratado de la pintura por Leonardo da Vinci, y los tres libros que sobre el mismo arte escribó Leon Bautista Alberti.  Lisboa: Alcalá 

HOCKNEY, D. (2001). Secret knowledge: rediscovering the lost techniques of the old masters. London: Thames & Hudson 

LOTHE, A. (1958) Traité du paysage (1939), in Traités du paisage et de la figure. Paris: Grasset.

NANCY, Jean-Luc (2003). Au fond des images. Paris : Galilée. 

SERRALLER, F. C., Los géneros de la Pintura. Madrid: Edições Taurus.

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VAN ZUILEN, G. (1994). Tous les jardins du monde. Paris: Gallimard.