Antique Portrait Study (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAS (P) 224
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  1. Learn by recreation of an artwork from an important artist in history.
  2. Observe, analyses, interpret how portrait art has evolved in time
  3. Learn by duplicating the artists style, tool handling, surface treatment etc.

Course Outcomes:

Course

 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

VAS (P) 224

Antique Portrait Study

(Practical)

 

 

The students will -

CO41: Observe intricately. Notice the details student would have overlooked otherwise in the sculpture to make detailed observation of important portraits of the world.

 

CO42: Manage resources and skills to replicate ancient portraits to experiment and analyze their own aesthetic sense and belonging to the particular era.

 

CO43: Analyse and formulate an understanding of formal elements of artwork by recreating the decisions of form, proportion, posture etc made by artist already to learn directly from master artists.

CO44: Experiment with tools and mediums that ancient artists assumed to use to exemplify why they used those particular materials and equipment.

CO45: Mold and cast the portraits exemplifying professional skills of constructing a portrait in a permanent medium.

CO46: Modify the surfaces through various surface treatments to make their artwork look exactly like the ancient work they are recreating.

 

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, Field practical, handling of matrix, printing press and tools.

 

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

CONTENT:                                                                                   NoExam

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

 

References: 
  • J.J. Pollitt – Art in the Hellenistic Age
  • John Griffiths Pedley – Greek Art and Archaeology
  • Gombrich – The Story of Art
  • Jyoti Rohilla Rana – Sculpture Art of Amravati
  • RajendraYadav – Sculpture Art of Abaneri
  • Irene Korn – Auguste Rodin
  • Flynn Tom, The body in Sculpture, The Everyman art Library,1998, Calmann and King Ltd, London
  • Taschen, Auguste Rodin – Drawing & Sculpting
  • Gamba Claudio, Michelangelo, 2008, Skira Editore, Milano, Italy
  • Dr. Neeta Yadav –Glory of  Ancient India.

 

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