RELIEF COMPOSITION (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAS(C) 123
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to-

  1. Develop a sense of perspective and learn all the techniques to execute it.
  2. Express their ideas on a plane rather than free standing sculpture format they are used to.
  3. Understand modeling mediums on a deeper level to form textures both implied and constructed.

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VAS(C) 123

 

 

 

Relief Composition (Practical)

The students will -

CO9: Questioning the existing reliefs around them at hotels and temples along with the most famous reliefs in history to observe and learn how artists communicate using this method.

CO10: Compose a relief work displaying a strong sense of compositional properties like rhythm and balance to produce professionally composed works for the market soon.

CO11: Experiment with techniques of perspective and include manipulation of forms through foreshortening or elongation to help them find unique ways of expression.

CO12: Debate the medium in which the made composition will be best executed to understand medium’s individuality, its cost, process and method of construction.

CO13: Execute reliefs from sheets of stone or wood to understand the challenges of making a relief in a carving medium.

CO14: Construct relief works with sensitivity to its surface before and after the casting processes. Execute various textures and create their own texture that suit their artwork.

CO15: Understand and tackle various complexities of mold making and casting a relief into their chosen permanent medium to get industry ready skills of sculpting.

Approach in teaching:

Tutorials, Ideation, Selection, Development, Debriefing.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Sketching, lay outing of composition, Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks, Experimenting

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

 

COURSE CONTENT

Student will compose a relief (low/high) and cast (if required) in any permanent medium (wood/metal/stone/fiber/scrap/ waste material)

SUBMISSIONS:      2 works in relief in minimum 4 sq ft

References: 

Suggested Text Books/Suggested Reference Books:

  • L. R. Rogers, Relief Sculpture, The Appreciation of the artists, Oxford University Press
  • Fabrizia Savi, A visual Course of Sculpting Techniques, Bas Reliefs and High Reliefs
  • Temples Of South India, Publication Devision
  • Peter Lang, Depth of Field, Relief Sculpture in Renaissance Italy
  • John Guy, Indian Temple Sculpture, Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd
  • Rajesh Chandra, Indian Art Architecture and Environment, Edukeen Publisher, Noida

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