RELIEF COMPOSITION (Practical)

Paper Code: 
VAS(C) 323
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes:

The course will enable the students to:

  1. Construct relief in various extreme scales and curb challenges attached to its execution.
  2. Use nontraditional media and practices to form a relief sculpture that is in tune with their artistic sensibilities.
  3. Execute their own unique thoughts and compositions in a relief format maintaining their own style of rendering form in 3D.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

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Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

VAS(C) 323

 

Relief Composition

(Practical)

 

The students will -

CO63: Argue and validate artists and works of contemporary era where artists have used non-traditional unusual martials to understand how artists are bringing in these mediums into the art world.

CO64: Facilitate material proficiency experimenting with various techniques and materials to learn the language a medium adds to the work of art.

CO65: Maintain their sense of style and individuality of form as an artist while executing the form on a flatter plane to not miss out on their unique sense of self.

CO66: Understand the techniques of measurement and scaling of a sculpture to achieve proportional correctness of a composition

CO67: Compose a relief using a direct medium, constructing a slab of a direct medium or construct directly with quick dry mediums like Plaster of Paris or cement to practice medium handling in quick dry mediums.

CO68: Debate about the display of the artwork they have constructed, their assembling, framing and spatial sense to add a new distinctive way of expression through display.

Approach in teaching:

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

Learning activities for the students:

Sketching, lay outing of portrait study, 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, 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/ scrape/ waste material)

SUBMISSIONS: 2 works in relief in minimum 4 sq feet.

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

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