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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course introduces the basic principles for the development of abstract paintings, considering a variety of historical and contemporary examples. This includes abstraction developed out of organic sources, geometric principles, optical effects, materiality and matter painting, and hybrid forms. Studio projects expand the student's conceptual and historical understanding of abstract painting, introduce a range of paint-handling skills, develop their knowledge of acrylic, oil and other media and understanding of how formal and material qualities contribute to the generation of meaning and affect. Studio work is informed by lectures, seminars and discussions. Work health and safety (WHS) instruction is an integral part of this course.
Body of studio work weeks 1-6
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Body of studio work weeks 7-12
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Drawing, research, visual diary
Learning outcomes 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks: lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 82 hours of independent studio practice, reading and writing. Other Information School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
N/A Preliminary Reading http://paot.com.au/ Painting Amongst Other Things Exhibition and Catalogue https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/revelation-erasure Abstraction, 2013 (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art). Edition. The MIT Press. Albers, J 1975, Interaction of Colour Revised Edition, Yale University Press. Briony, F 1997, On Abstract Art, Yale University Press, New Haven and London Itten, J 1970, The Elements of Colour, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, United States. Gerhard Richter, 1996, Abstract Painting 825-11:69 details/with an afterword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Zurich. Lippard, L,R 1981, Ad Reinhardt/Lucy R. Lippard, H.N. Abrams, New York. Paths to Abstraction 1867-1917, Terence Maloon (editor), 2010. Schwabsky,B (ed.)Vitamin P2: 2011, New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press Limited, London. This Way Up, 2009, an Exhibition Series of Recent Abstract Paintings, The Australian National University, Goanna Print, Canberra.