Course ARS 212 · Year II · Summer 2022-2023

THE STUDY OF PAINTING FOR ICONOGRAPHY (IV)

Compulsory course in Sacred art, taught by Cătălin Băluț.

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Overview

Lecturer
Cătălin Băluț
Seminar tutor
Cătălin Băluț
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Visual arts
Field of study
Sacred art
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
lecture, debates, exemples, practical activities

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 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.

Concept

Abstract soul

Transparent

Overlays

Juxtapositions

Form and reason

Man and space

Urban landscape interpretation

Darkroom

Interpretation of rural landscape

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

Color rendering of the human figure

Perspective in Byzantine painting, point, line, spot

Learning outcomes

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

Assessment

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

Recommended reading

Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography
Jaroslav Folda
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2015 · -
Masterpieces
James Robinson
British Museum Press, London, 2012 · -
How to Read Medieval Art
Wendy A. Stein
Yale University Press Colecția Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 2016 · -