ACV101 - Painting in the Visual Arts
Unit details
Year: | 2020 unit information |
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Important Update: | Classes and seminars in Trimester 3, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of trimester. Last updated: 5 October 2020 |
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong), CBD* Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne) |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Cameron Bishop Trimester 3: Cameron Bishop |
Cohort rule: | Nil |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 3-hour seminar per week |
Note:*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery |
Content
This unit asks students to explore the discipline of painting in a variety of ways. Alongside a staged technical approach concepts such as remediation and representation are used to frame the practice in historical and contemporary contexts. Key to the unit is a concentration on the medium as crucial in the development of the way we perceive the image, and practice art, in the 21st century. Thus the unit specifically addresses painting by exploring materiality, techniques, and its surface qualities; as well as its deployment in the history of images. Students do this through classes, workshops, studio intensive weeks, critical discussions and seminars. One of the main tools used to develop a folio of artworks is the workbook/journal, which acts as a place to gather information, contextualize ideas, experiment and reflect. To resolve a series of artworks students will develop their own ideas, technical approaches and problem-solving skills in this dynamic and contemporary unit.
These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | ||
ULO1 | Critically engage with different modes and approaches to painting informed by knowledge of the historical and theoretical contexts in contemporary art practice | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Organise and present research findings in critical discussion and apply an informed research perspective to a series of proposed paintings and/or constructed images | GLO2: Communication GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO3 | Work independently to research and create a group of artworks, contextualised and articulated in historical and contemporary terms, that explore the material, technical and experimental aspects of painting as a medium | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management |
ULO4 | Analyse and articulate the relationship of materials to ideas through and across the different historical and contemporary modes of development, documentation, presentation, production and resolution in painting and image construction | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO6: Self-management |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
Trimester 1:Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 (Individual) - Workbook of written and visual support documentation | 800 word equivalent | 20% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 2 (Individual) - Studio work – works-in progress and final presentation | 2400 word equivalent | 60% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 3 (Individual and Group) Critical Discussion and Oral Presentation | 800 word equivalent | 20% | Information not yet available |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ACV101
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.
Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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