Course aims:

Formulation of cognitive pathways through the use of basic knowledge and recognition of concepts in the visual area.
Applying the necessary methods, techniques and creative tools in the use of the means of expression typical of the field of iconographic visual arts.
Elaboration of personal themes / projects in the field of painting, with all its valences, through the principles and methods established in the field.

Course Entry Requirements:

N/A

Course contents:

Analyze from a chromatic point of view a series of practical notions: chromatic contrast, tonal chord, chromatic harmony, chromatic dominance, color rendering. Another important point of the course is the ability to observe, the ability and the decision to build chromatically following a naturalistic pictorial exercise.

Color for iconographers

Static nature study

Transparent

Overlays

Juxtapositions

Full figure study (model)

Details of the human figure

Static nature

Urban landscape

Rural landscape

The significance of color in iconography / icon palette of practical application

Color rendering of the human figure

Perspective in painting Reverse perspective

Teaching methods:

lecture, debates, exemples, practical activities

Learning outcomes:

Competences in relating to the environment and culture through optimal transformation / assimilation of information and their processing / communication through iconographic language.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

oral exam 50%, and implication in seminar practical activities 50%

Recommended reading:

Robin Cormack, Byzantine Art, Oxford University Press Colecția OUP Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018, -.
Antony Eastmond, Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies), Routledge, London, 2004, -.
John Lowden, Early Christian & Byzantine Art (Art & Ideas), Phaidon, London, 1997, -.