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Live Portrait Study (Practical) [1]

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

This course will enable the students to-

  1. Practice their skills of portrait making using a live model, while increasing their focus on finer details of the face.
  2. Use clay as the basic medium to expertly replicate all the different textures of a human head, i.e., hair, eye, skin, etc.
  3. Construct portraits to scale, enhancing their understanding of praportions of human head with lateral symmetry.

Course

 

  Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

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VAS 123

 

 

 

Live Portrait Study (Practical)

 

The students will be able to-

CO10: Interpret the anatomy of a head and  Duplicate character of the live model in clay (or other mediums)

 

CO11: Use their understanding of proportion to presuppose an armature of the required scale.

 

CO12: Generate a deeper understanding of each individual feature of a portrait, i.e., eyes, nose , lips etc

 

CO13:Construct professional looking finished portraits that replicate the face of the given model

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENT: (Exam 30 Hrs.)

Study from live model in clay and casting in any medium (plaster / cement/ fiber/ metal/ scrape)

 

SUBMISSIONS:  4 works life size

 

References: 
  1. Heidi Maiers – Portrait Sculpture(busts)
  2. Berit Hidre – Modeling heads and Faces in Clay
  3. Daisy Grubbs – Modeling a Likeness in Clay
  4. Simon Kogan – How to Sculpt the Portrait in Clay
  5. Peter Rubino – The portrait in Clay
Academic Year: 
2020-2021 [2]

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[2] https://visualarts.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2020-2021