PRINTMAKING (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAG 225
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course will enable the students to:     

  1. Command of technique and materials, both traditional and experimental.
  2. Understand the advance level knowledge of Lithography Planography and emboss process.
  3. Develop and understand the advance level of tools and methods involve in Lithography (planography) and emboss process.
  4. Construct signature art style.
  5. Understand the important role of studio to create their own work.

COURSE OUTCOMES

Course

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

 

 

 

 

VAG 225

 

Printmaking (Practical)

The students will –

CO48: Effectively apply knowledge towards developing a consistent, personal style.

CO49: Recollect knowledge of planography (lithography) printing technique.

CO50:  Learn the sensibility how to develop a drawing according to the medium Planography they are going to use.

CO51: Experiment with tools and techniques to build confidence to express their concepts.

CO52: Progress towards developing a reverse and multi-color litho printing style.

CO53: Gain knowledge to set up a printing studio with the understanding of planography machinery and tools.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, regular submission.

 

CONTENT:

The student will choose any one of the following as a compulsory technique which they will continue in all the four semesters. Besides this they will have to choose one more technique as subsidiary, which they can change in each semester if they want.

  • Relief printing (wood and lino)
  • Lithography (Planography)
  • Intaglio (Etching, Dry Point, Aquatint viscosity, Engraving, Matzoth, Photo Etching)
  • Serigraphy

Submission: min. 8 works (not less than 12”x 18”)

 

 

References: 

Suggested Text Books/ Suggested Reference Books:

  • Herbert et al, The Book of Art: Pictorial Encyclopedia of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture (Ten Volume Complete Set), 1 Jan 1971
  • The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopaedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present, 4 March 1997
  • UmetaroAzechi, Japanese Woodblock printing.
  • Arthur Hind, A History of Etching and Engraving
  • The Printmaking Ideas Book Paperback – Illustrated, August 20, 2019
  • Bamber Gascoigne, how to Identify Prints: A complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet Paperback, 25 May 2004.
  • D. Kauffmann., Graphic Art and Craft
  • Eichenberg, Fritz, The Art of the Print.

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Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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