CREATIVE COMPOSITION (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAS(C) 425
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

Explore opportunities art world provides to original art created with professional understanding of art elements and principles.

Learn techniques and tool handling to produce sculptural surfaces of their desire

Illustrate their ideologies and understanding of socio political issues in terms of 3D work of art.

 

COURSE OUTCOMES:

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  Course Outcomes

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Course Title

VAS(C) 425

 

Creative Sculpture (Practical)

 

The students will -

CO101: Create a series of original works of art with coherent formal, conceptual, and procedural relationships to one another to construct a personal language in their art.

CO102: Produce works of different sizes to practise armature building, clay handling, weight balancing and other skills involved to execute works of extreme sizes.

CO103: Demonstrate professional level of expertise in casting and mould making processes to execute professionally displayed and sold sculptures.

CO104: Employ direct building techniques, observing, selecting existing forms from their surroundings and constructing new forms with them to add a new language and material into their portfolios.

CO105: Adapt to contemporary art movements like Art Povera, Fluxus, Minimalism etc to experiment with    performance, music, videography in their mix media artworks to construct an environment. 

CO106: Assessing professional displays at art galleries and develop expressive and unique display art works in an exhibition space

Approach in teaching:

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

 

Learning activities for the students:

 Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical, handling of tools, machines, and casting and molding equipment.

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

 

CONTENT:                                                                                                      No Exam

Student will prepare a creative sculpture based on figures in his own style using different techniques and mediums.

SUBMISSIONS:      3 works of 2’ minimum 

References: 

Suggested Text Books/Suggested Reference Books:

  • Vergie Lea, Art on the Cutting Edge – A guide to Contemporary Movements, SkiraPaperbag, 2001, Milan, Italy
  • Ian Dawson, Making Contemporary Sculpture, Crowood Publication
  • The 21st Century Art book, Phaidon
  • Pran Nath Mago, Contemporary Art of India, National Book Trust
  • Michael Archer, Installation Art, Thames & Hudson London
  • Vasishtha, Sculptural Traditions of Rajasthan, Publications Scheme, Jaipur
  • Devi Prasad, Ramkinkar Vaij: Sculptures, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2007
  • Mukhopadhyay, Ramkinker Baij Birth Centenary - 1906 - 1980, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2007
  • Bhardwaj, Ramkumar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

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