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VA3131:03

Drawing 3

[Non-Bachelor of Visual Arts students wishing to undertake this subject should seek approval from the Associate Dean for the College of Music, Visual Arts and Theatre or the head of Visual Arts]

Townsville

HECS Band 1

52 hours practicals. Full year.

Available to all students subject to prerequisites.

Staff:

Dr J Brown.

The subject will encompass the rounding out and deepening of the previous two years of study with particular emphasis being placed in drawing as a design tool, an investigative and expressive means and a powerful perceptual and technical discipline.

The employment and integration of media and heightening of skills development will be reviewed in relation to form and content.

Synthesis -- content, structure and style will be examined; strategies for formulating and realising complex abstract and narrative ideas and concepts; the translation and manipulation of the autographic image through electronic media; the presentation and development of visual research and thought experiences; the use of a wide range of subject/object material, including the human figure to deepen the individual's knowledge of theoretical and formal concerns in drawing.

Learning Objectives:

acquire conceptual skills and a very high level of technical expertise which will allow a command of graphic visual language and which demonstrate individual investigation and expressivity;

attain and deepen understanding of the creative and technical use of media in relation to image making and design functions;

evolve strategies for undertaking synthesising and presenting visual research thoughts, experiences and investigations;

research and devise strategies for the realisation of narrative pictorial concepts through the employment of abstract design to constructs;

further development in the ability to translate and manipulate a finished autographic image into a fully realised mature graphic product;

research at practical and conceptual levels in the interrelationship of structure, style and content;

exposure to a variety of subject and object matter including the figure with a view to providing technical and conceptual tools which will enhance aspects of students specialist study.

Continuous assessment of studio techniques notebook (20%); a body of work based on contractual agreement assessed through the year at progressive stages. This will include studio practice (40%) and work resulting from an individual research proposal (40%). All elements of the subject must be satisfactorily completed.