*Aims and Objectives:
The aim of this course is to help students find ways of teaching themselves about art by learning how to study great drawings and extract information them that will inspire and motivate their work. Students will not look at how to create a pastiche of the masters’ work but instead they will be taught and tested on what the particular concerns that they feel master may have had whilst drawing.
The aim is also that the student will gain a deeper sense of what kind of challenges great artists had set for themselves. The course will be strongly tied in most weeks with the curriculum set in their history of art lectures that they receive on a Wednesday. This will mean that during the History of Art Course they will learn about the Artist and on a Friday in the same week they will use those artist ideas whilst working on their drawings.
*Your Itinerary:
Day 1 (12th January): Michelangelo (Gbenga Ilumoka-tutor). Students will spend the day studying Michelangelo’s linear and tonal drawings.
Day 2 (19th January): Leonardo (Dave Woodcock-tutor). Students will explore how Leonardo thought about space.
Day 3 (26th January): Cezanne (Dave Woodcock-tutor). Students will explore how Cezanne thought about space.
Day 4 (2nd February): Picasso (Dave Woodcock-tutor). Students will explore how Picasso thought about space.
Day 5 (9th February): Ingres (Nahim Shoa-tutor). Students will be looking at line and the diffusion of line and how line relates to space.
Day 6 (23rd February): Bonnard (Jennifer McRae-tutor). Students will spend the day by the River Thames drawing water, street theatre, skateboarders and boats. They will try to find a way of drawing without color that can at the same time recreate the sensation of color.
Day 7 (2nd March): Surrealism (Nahim Shoa-tutor). Juxtaposition of elements to create an illogical truth or dreamscape, to explore the unconscious.
Day 8 (9th March): Abstract Expressionism (Brendan Kelly-tutor). Students will be creating abstract Drawings from their head exploring different ways to move a drawing forward and explore relationships of shapes.
Students will have spent time investigating a broad range of approaches to drawing; this will have given them the opportunity to think about drawing in new ways.
Faculty Information:
Student preparation requirements: A2-A3 cartridge paper. Pencils, charcoal and white chalk.
Other Activities:
We offer a range of sculpture and painting courses: from short courses, evenings, and weekend courses, to part-time and a Diploma course.
Facility Information:
Teaching Strategy:
Mainly studio based, Formal drawing instruction, life-drawing classes, in situ objective drawing. There will be a mix of teachers from the Art Academy and guest tutors from outside. Tutors who are experts in particular areas will be chosen for specific classes.
Notes:
Materials are not provided, however Drawing Packs are available from The Art Academy for £15.
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