PTG2033 · Painting: Figuration

Overview

This unit investigates the technical and conceptual processes of a range of painting methods. The unit provides you with an in-depth engagement with the skills in a variety of representational and abstract painting processes. This production will be informed by histories of figurative, narrative, perceptual and non-objective applications of painting. You will achieve a level of technical and practical competence in the production of your painting and be able to engage the various discourses and theories that contextualise painting within the field of contemporary art.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Develop experimental studio processes that generate ongoing creative research;
2. Extend your technical skills as a means of critical expression in various modes of painting;
3. Apply painting approaches and forms of creative expression appropriate to the concepts you are investigating;
4. Critically reflect on your individual approach to painting within a field of current practices, nationally and internationally;
5. Position and articulate the aesthetic, theoretical and discursive context of your painting within contemporary cultural production.

Workload

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.