CREATIVE COMPOSITION (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAS(C) 225
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  1. Use their understanding of materials and textures to come up with unique ways to forward their language of sculptures.
  2. Observe, analyses, interpret how Sculptures have 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

Course Code

Course Title

VAS(C) 225

 

Creative Composition

(Practical)

 

The students will -

CO49: Visually deconstruct a couple of artists and works of creative composition of their choice to get a better idea of their own aesthetic. 

CO50: Critically manipulate figurative and nonfigurative forms to get in the process of constructing a personal style and expression through the medium. 

CO51: Compose keeping the idea of rhythm, movement, and 3Dimentionality to project their thought processes in an appealing, attractive way that audience appreciates.

CO52: Customize mold making and casting processes according to the artworks need in order to remove hesitation from experimentation of set processes learnt in past.

CO53:  Devise tools and machinery to construct finished casting surfaces to understand role of surface in the language of a sculpture.

CO54: Adapting to the environment and create their own ways of displaying, involving proper consideration of positive and negative space to be able to critically think of their sculpture’s bases, eye level, and background colors.

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 tools, machines, and casting and molding equipments

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.

 

COURSE CONTENT:

Student will prepare a creative composition using synthetic mediums in his own style. The student can make environmental sculptures, installation art, and direct metal sculpture by different processes such as welding, rewetting.

SUBMISSIONS: 3 works of 2’ minimum

References: 

Suggested Text Books/Suggested Reference Books:

  • Ian Dawson, Making Contemporary Sculpture, Crowood Publication
  • Herbert Read, The Meaning of Art, Penguin Books, 1963
  • Balram Srivastava, Nature of Indian Aesthetics, Chaukhambha Orientalia, 1985
  • R.N. Misra, Outlines of Indian Arts: Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Dance and Drama, Aryan Book Internation, Delhi, 2014
  • Subhashini Aryan, Unknown Masterpieces of Indian Folk & Tribal Art, B. N. Aryan 
  • Neelima Vashishtha, Tradition and Modernity in Indian Arts: during the Twentieth Century, Aryan Book International, 2010
  • Sunil Gawde (The Sculptor), Popular Prakashan, Bombay

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