Antique Portrait Study (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAS(P) 124
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to-

  1. Appreciate and understand the portraits of ancient era.
  2. Develop an understanding of tools, materials and techniques used in those times.
  3. Formulate a deeper understanding by taking upon a journey that master artists may have taken while making the portrait.
  4. Reproduce a finished replica of an ancient work finely recreating features, face structure, rhythm and balance.

Course

 

 Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

VAS (P) 124

 

 

Antique Portrait Study

(Practical)

 

 

The students will -

CO15:  Review and revise through recreation various intricacies of an antique portrait to acquire skills like the old masters.

 

CO16: Develop an understanding of tools and mediums used by the chosen time period to trace evolution of tools over time.

 

CO17:  Recognize the different aesthetics of the various ancient civilizations and how their iconography developed to practice facial features and portraitures of each era.

 

CO18: Solve the complicated molding casting process by step by step following procedures as imagined on the original.

 

CO19: Analyse features of the portrait to identify the beauty standards of various eras.

 

CO20: Simulate similar surface textures and color to replicate the chosen figures.

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion on composition subjects, Tutorials, Videos, Demonstration, Reading assignments.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Sketching, lay outing of composition, Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Viva-Voice on display of artworks, Continuous Assessment Test, Semester end examinations, Quizzes, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and regular submission.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Content: Study of portraits made by great masters (Greek, Roman, Western, Indian, etc)

Submissions: 2 works minimum.

References: 
  • Hisashi Mori - Japanese Portrait Sculpture
  • R.P. Hinks - Greek and Roman Portrait Sculpture
  • Peck Stephen Rogers, Atlas of human Anatomy for the Artists. 
  • John Griffiths Pedly - Greek Art and Archaeology
  • Gombruch - The story of Art
  • Dr. Neeta Yadav - Glory of Ancient India
Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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