| CODE | AAH3450 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Expanded Forms of Painting | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Art and Art History | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This is a study-unit with a multi-disciplinary approach to the diversity of media and forms that define contemporary painting practices. The unit will involve hands-on studio experiments with traditional and non-traditional media. It will also involve an introduction to curatorial perspectives. Students have to get their own materials. Study-Unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to broaden the students perspectives on what constitutes painting within the broader, often eclectic, context of contemporary art practice. This unit will also engage students in theoretical discourses around the act of painting, mark-making, and methods of making artwork. This unit also aims to give students a broad understanding of the politics of display, publication and exhibition. Further elements would be: - the practice of experimental collective activities; - tackling a thematic approach to one’s creativity; - inter-artistic media; - curatorial experience. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - critically evaluate their painting-based creative projects - develop their painting practices beyound the confines established in traditional painting practices - challenge conventional understanding of what constitutes a painting - develop and present a personal painting project in an unconventional exhibition site. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - explore a wide variety of painting methods and supports - critically engage with the way painting has been traditionally ‘constructed’ and the many ways new technologies have helped to develop skills that look beyond traditional ways of applying paint in a meaningful manner - explore new expressive forms of painting and audience engagement through painterly means Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - M. Titmarsh, Expanded painting: Ontological perspectives and the Essence of Colour, Bloomsbury UK, 2017. - H. Westgeest, Slow painting: Contemplation and Critique in the digital age, Bloomsbury UK, 2022 - J. Andrews, The question of painting: Rethinking Thought with Marleau Ponty, Bloomsbury 2020 - S. Hudson, Contemporary painting (World of Art), Thames and Hudson, UK 2021. - J. Seed, More disruption: Representational art in flux, Schiffer 2023. - J. Seed, Disrupted Realism: paintings for a distracted world, Schiffer, 2019. - J. Bell, What is Painting?, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1999. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This study-unit is offered to Fine Arts students only. | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Practical | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Matthew Attard |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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