Course ARS 110 · Year I · Summer 2025-2026

THE STUDY OF DRAWING FOR ICONOGRAPHY (II)

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

- the formation of skills through which the student can reaches the stage of direct expression of the plastic message, through specific, secular and canonical-religious means

-adapting the compositional design to the Byzantine specifics of icon and mural art.

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Course contents

The relationship between linear rhythm and value rhythm, the study of anatomical elements after ancient moldings

The study of the human face and body - the portrait

The study of the human body and face - portrait with the hands

The study of the proportions of the human body

Morphology of the human body - the study of the living model, whole figure

Morphology of the human body - study by living model, draped whole figure, in-depth study

The statics and dynamics of the positions of the human body

Movement, expression of the human body - study according to the living model, draped whole figure, in-depth study

Learning outcomes

Transmitting theoretical notions and making specific practical applications the field of drawing, the development of artistic visual skills through awareness, assimilation and representation of graphic, constructive principles and value from the models in the proposed themes.

Assessment

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

Recommended reading

Drawing Closer to Christ: A Self-Guided Icon Retreat Paperback
Joseph Malham
Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, USA, 2017 · -
Techniques of Traditional Icon Painting
Gilles Weissmann
Search Press, Westminster, 2012 · -
The Mystical Language of Icons
Solrunn Nes
Eerdmans, Michigan, 2009 · -