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Art in the Making C: Fall 2024

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Semester & Location:

Fall 2024 - DIS Copenhagen

Type & Credits:

Elective Course -  3 credits

Major Disciplines:

Art History, Studio Art, and Visual Arts
Prerequisite(s):

None
Faculty Members:

Sameera Khan (current students please use the Canvas Inbox)
Time & Place:

Tuesdays, 16:25-19:20 in S12-05 (Skindergade, The Old Firestation)

 

Course Description

A studio art course (for non-majors) introducing students to contemporary and historical approaches to art. In this course, students will develop individual and independent art projects.

 

This course aims to extend basic drawing and art-making skills in a variety of media: visual note-taking, drawing, collage, watercolor, printmaking, bookmaking, and the art of mixing media. Some of these techniques will be demonstrated by artists in specific workshops or studied during field studies to exhibitions.

Each session will start with a short lecture introducing a new medium and offering historical and cultural insights. This will be followed by a workshop where techniques will be presented, discussed, and tested. Often, a specific assignment will encourage the student to explore the medium further.

Emphasis is placed on individual creative experimentation, according to the concepts and techniques introduced in this class.

Students will learn how to work in an engaging manner with a sketchbook, to document their personal "Art in the Making" journey.

Learning Objectives

Develop a deeper understanding of artistic techniques, content, and contexts; Practice critical discourse through studio work sessions and field studies; Obtain the ability to work with a number of artistic materials and techniques; Enable students to visually manifest their ideas;

Produce and present a larger individual art project;

Instructor/ Faculty: Sameera Khan

Bachelors in Fine Arts: National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan (1996-2000). Masters Visual Arts (MFA) Sheffield Hallam University (2002- 2004). Print Studio Manager, Swansea Print Workshop, Swansea, South Wales (2004 to 2007), High school teacher, Visual Arts and Design, Copenhagen International School 2008 to date. With DIS since 2012.

Field Studies

Nikolaj Kunsthal, København K
GL Strand, København K
Thorvaldsens Museum, København K

Course Evaluation and Grading

Assignment

Percent

Sketchbook (in class and homework assignments)                                                                                                        

50%

Participation in class discussions, attendance, presentations    

15%

Independent Art Projects (Collaged Book/ Mapping Project/ 3D Artwork)

10%

Final book Project

25 %

Required Materials

I will provide you with a starter kit which includes a sketchbook and a few supplies to get you started on the course. 

Project work occasionally requires you to buy additional materials, especially the final project.

suggested art stores: Tutein and Koch, Stelling.

 Required Reading

(available on Canvas; readings must be completed before the class that they are assigned to)

Edwards, Betty: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, #11 Moving into the Third Dimension: Seeing Light, Drawing Shade, Souvenir Press, 1979. pp.180-189

03_Edwards,Betty, Drawing on the right side of the brain, Seeing light, Drawing Shade, Penguin Putman, USA, 1979.pdf

Harmon, Katharine: Intro to The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists explore cartography, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

08 Harmon, Katharine, The Map As Art, NY, Princeton Press, 2009.pdf

Hustved, Sirir: Notes on Seeing, The Drama of Perception, in Living, Thinking, Looking, London, Sceptre Books, 2012. pp.223-231.

01_Hustvedt, Siri. Living, Thinking, Looking. London, Sceptre Books, 2012. pp. 223-244.pdf

Kentridge, William: Drawing Lesson 1: In Praise of Shadows in Six Drawing Lessons, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2014.pp.1-32

Kentridge Drawing lesson 1.pdf

Kromann, Thomas Hvid: Book, Object, Book-Object. Regarding Certain Eccentric Material Deviations from the Ordinary Book, Danish Artists ́Books, Walter König, 2013, p.89-100.

Kroman-Book, object, book-object.pdf

O’Reilly, Sally: Collage: Diversions, contradictions and Anomalies, in Blanche Craig (ed.) Collage – Assembling Contemporary art, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2008, pp.8-19.

collage oreilly__xid-791557_1.pdf

 Exploring Color:

Smagula, Howard J.: Creative Drawing, London, Lawrence King Publishing, 2002, #4 Line, pp. 84-

02_Smagula, Howard J, Creative Drawing, McGraw Hill, 2002.pdf

Making Colour Sing_Jeanne Dobie.pdf

Making Colour Sing005.pdf

Contour and Shading:

Betty Edwards Chap 6 Contour Drawing.pdf

Betty Edwards Light and Dark.pdf

03_Edwards,Betty, Drawing on the right side of the brain, Seeing light, Drawing Shade, Penguin Putman, USA, 1979.pdf

Contour line drawings:

contour drawing Smagula.pdf

Field Studies

Nikolaj Kunsthal, København K
GL Strand, København K
Thorvaldsens Museum, København K
NW Gallery, Nansensgade 10, København K

Academic Regulations 

Please make sure to read the Academic Regulations on the DIS website. There you will find regulations on:

 

DIS - Study Abroad in Scandinavia - www.DISabroad.org

 

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