Antique Portrait Study (Practical)

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

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 124

 

 

Antique Portrait Study

(Practical)

 

 

The students will be able to-

 

CO14:Learn through recreation various intricacies of a portrait like expressions, features, proportion etc

 

CO15:Develop an understanding of tools and mediums used by the chosen civilization

 

CO16:  Recognize the different aesthetics of the various ancient civilizations and how their iconographydeveloped

 

CO17: Replicate a portrait from art history that will help them understand the artist’s techniques, tools and medium.

 

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: (No Exam)

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

 

SUBMISSION: 2 works minimum

 

References: 
  1. Hisashi Mori – Japanese Portrait Sculpture
  2. R.P. Hinks - Greek and Roman Portrait Sculpture
  3. Peck Stephen Rogers, Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist,
  4. John Griffiths Pedley – Greek Art and Archaeology
  5. Gombrich – The Story of Art
  6. Dr. Neeta Yadav –Glory of  Ancient India
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