ARTS7045 - Drawing: Exploring Perception

Title:Drawing: Exploring Perception
Long Title:Drawing: Exploring Perception
Module Code:ARTS7045
  
Duration:1 Semester
Credits: 5
NFQ Level:Intermediate
Field of Study: Visual Arts
Valid From: Semester 1 - 2017/18 ( September 2017 )
Module Delivered in 4 programme(s)
Module Coordinator: TRISH BRENNAN
Module Author: MAUREEN O CONNOR
Module Description: This module explores perception and drawing concepts in Fine Art practice as a means of extending the learner's art vocabulary.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
LO1 Utilise skills within traditional life drawing processes; demonstrate proficiency and confidence and the ability to accurately draft and check a life figure in space.
LO2 Display critical awareness in exploration and experimentation through drawing media including pictorial structure, surface and format.
LO3 Demonstrate through their drawings, the formal value that different drawing processes and media can communicate
LO4 Evaluate relevant critical and practical research.
LO5 Apply correctly etiquette and health and safety requirements when working in a life room with a life model.
Pre-requisite learning
Incompatible Modules
These are modules which have learning outcomes that are too similar to the learning outcomes of this module. You may not earn additional credit for the same learning and therefore you may not enrol in this module if you have successfully completed any modules in the incompatible list.
No incompatible modules listed
Co-requisite Modules
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Requirements

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is mandatory before enrolment in this module is allowed. You may not enrol on this module if you have not acquired the learning specified in this section.
No requirements listed
Co-requisites
No Co Requisites listed
 

Module Content & Assessment

Indicative Content
Research
Compile and record documentation of class based visual experiments. Collect relevant sources of contemporary exhibition and critical reviews.
Group Critique
Critical and contextual group discussions centred on a range of traditional and non-traditional fine art drawing practices. Analyse and develop an understanding of drawings varied function within a multifarious media artscape.
Practical
Introduction to accurate analytic observational drawing techniques with a life model exploring traditional and non-traditional processes, pictorial structure and surface. Experimentation and enquiry of the art work's physical and perceptual values, methods of display, interaction with the environment.
Assessment Breakdown%
Course Work100.00%
Course Work
Assessment Type Assessment Description Outcome addressed % of total Assessment Date
Exhibition Evaluation Portfolio - Selection, Evaluation and Presentation 1,2,3,4,5 100.0 Sem End
No End of Module Formal Examination
Reassessment Requirement
Coursework Only
This module is reassessed solely on the basis of re-submitted coursework. There is no repeat written examination.

The institute reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Workload Description Hours Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload
Lab Workshops 4.0 Every Week 4.00
Independent & Directed Learning (Non-contact) Study 3.0 Every Week 3.00
Total Hours 7.00
Total Weekly Learner Workload 7.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 4.00
This module has no Part Time workload.
 

Module Resources

Recommended Book Resources
  • Dexter E 2005, New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon Press [ISBN: ISBN 10: 0714]
Supplementary Book Resources
  • Butler C, De Zegher C 2012, On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century, Moma New York [ISBN: ISBN-10: 0870]
  • [John Berger]; edited by Jim Savage 2005, Berger on drawing, Occasional Press Aghabullogue, Ireland [ISBN: 0-9548976-0-9]
  • Sarah Simblet, The Drawing Book, Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd [ISBN: 9781405341233]
  • Louise Gordon 1989, The figure in action, B.T. Batsford London [ISBN: 0713459468]
  • Da Vinci, Leonardo 1990, Leonardo Da Vinci's Advice To Artists, Running PR [ISBN: 10: 089471834]
This module does not have any article/paper resources
Other Resources
 

Module Delivered in

Programme Code Programme Semester Delivery
CR_AACER_8 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Contemporary Applied Art (Ceramics, Glass, Textiles) 4 Elective
CR_AFAFA_8 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art 4 Elective
CR_HPHNM_8 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Photography with New Media 4 Elective
CR_AACER_7 Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Applied Art (Ceramics, Glass, Textiles) 4 Elective