Module Identifier |
AR22210 |
Module Title |
LIFE STUDIES 2 |
Academic Year |
2006/2007 |
Co-ordinator |
Mr Simon J Pierse |
Semester |
Semester 2 |
Other staff |
Ms Karen M Pearce, Mr Paul Webster |
Pre-Requisite |
AR10220 , AR10120 |
Course delivery |
Practical | 66 Hours. x taught life classes |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 100 Hours. 4 x 30 minute tutorials per student, 4 hours of group tutorials 28 hours of home based research and reading and preparation for portfolio submission |
Assessment |
Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
Semester Assessment | Portfolio submission including: Preparatory work: (sketchbooks, studies etc.)A portfolio of paintings and/or drawings | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Re-submission of portfolio | |
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Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
a. demonstrate a growing proficiency in painting and drawing from the life model.
b. analyse the human form and interpret that analysis in the context of a number of different project briefs.
c. evidence a growing understanding of the creative potential of life studies within the framework of their other art practice.
d. evaluate their own work in relation to other students taking this module.
e. evidence some knowledge of methods and materials, their relative potentials and limitations.
f. articulate ideas about their own work through interaction in individual and group tutorials
Brief description
Students further their art practice in the context of the life class, following a series of projects based around the life model. The type and length of pose is set by the tutor who will also prescribe a series of projects that explore the subject of the nude in the context of: tone, structure, anatomy, colour, movement and arrested movement. The final part of the course comprises an extended project based around the nude to be determined by the tutor.
Aims
This module is designed for students wishing to work in the life class at level 2. It is an option for those students with a particular interest in painting and drawing the nude and forms the part of a pathway in Life Studies initiated in Part 1.
Content
All life study sessions take place in the life room during periods of core studio time.(currently Wednesday 10-5pm) A list of materials required for each session is posted one week in advance. The tutor determines the poses and context in which the following programme of study takes place:
Week 1: Introduction: strategies and materials (painting and drawing) for life studies
Week 2: Anatomy and structure of the body
Week 3: Tone (i)
Week 4: Tone (ii) development & group tutorial
Week 5: Colour (i)
Week 6: Colour (ii) development
Week 7: Colour (iii) development & group tutorial
Week 8: Movement and arrested movement
Week9: Extended project
Week10: Extended project
Week 11: Conclusion of extended project
Transferable skills
Module Skills
Problem_solving |
development of practical drawing and painting skills |
Research skills |
development of a programme of art practice related research centred around the subject of the nude |
Communication |
development and encouragement of communication skills occurs during tutorials and group tutorials |
Improving own Learning and Performance |
development of a self-critical appraoch to creative working and to time management, supproted through the tutorail programme. |
Team work |
A degree of teamwork is inherent in the group tutorials but not formally assessed |
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
Boyd, Stephen (1989) Life Class: The Academic Male Nude, 1820-1920
London: Gay Men's Press
Clark, Kenneth (1956) The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art
, London: John Murray
Cormack, Malcolm (1976) The Nude in Western Art
Oxford: Phaidon
Gerdts, William H (1974) The Great American Nude: A History in Art
London: Phaidon Press
Hobhouse, Janet (1988) The Bride Stripped Bare: the Artist and the Nude in the Twentieth Century
London: Cape
Lambirth, Andrew, (2001) Ken Kiff
London: Thames & Hudson
Levey, Michael, (1972) The Nude
London: National Gallery
Louville, François de., Lucie-Smith, Edward (1985) The Male Nude: a Modern View
Oxford: Phaidon
McDonald, Helen (2001) Erotic Ambiguities: the Female Nude in Art
London; New York: Routledge
Nead, Lynda (1992) The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality
London: Routledge
Potts, Alex (1994) Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art
New Haven: Yale University Press
Saunders, Gill Victoria and Albert Museum (1989) The Nude: a New Perspective
London: Herbert
Smith, Alison (c1996) The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality, and Art
Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 5