CREATIVE PORTRAIT (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAS(P) 225
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:

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Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

VAS(P) 225

 

Creative Portrait

(Practical)

 

The students will -

CO47: Visually deconstruct a couple of artists and works of creative composition of their choice to get a better idea of their own aesthetic. 

CO48: Critically manipulate figurative and non figurative forms to get in the process of constructing a personal style and expression through the medium. 

CO49: Compose keeping the idea of rhythm, movement, and 3 Dimentionality to project their thought processes in an appealing, attractive way that audience appreciates.

CO50:  Devise tools and machinery to construct finished casting surfaces to understand role of surface in the language of a sculpture.

CO51: 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 equipment.

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 portrait in his own styles using different techniques and mediums.

 

SUBMISSIONS: 4 works of size 18 inches minimum

 

Note:The Exam will be conducted of 30 hours that will include 1 Portrait in life size and 2 other

Mesquites in creative portrait to be completed. The size for the machete should not be less than 9 inches.

 

References: 

Suggested Text Books/Suggested Reference Books:

  • Julia L. Kay, Portrait Revolution, Watson Gulpitt
  • Rosie Llewwllyn Jones, Portraits in Princely India, The Marg Foundation
  • Ricardo Barros, Facing Sculpture: A Portfolio of Portraits, Sculpture and Related Ideas, Image Spring Press
  • Vijaya Laxmi Singh, Women and Gender in Ancient India: A Study of Texts and Inscriptions, Aryan Book International, 2015
  • Sunil Gawde (The Sculptor), Popular Prakashan, Bombay

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