Course ARS 109 · Year I · Autumn 2024-2025

THE STUDY OF DRAWING FOR ICONOGRAPHY (I)

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

Elements of plastic language - point, line, spot

Construction of shape and plastic space with  the help of perspective elements

Amplifying the expressiveness of language elements tablet to suggest volume and space

Correlation of the expressive potential of the elements of plastic language and graphic techniques to highlight the character of the studied nature

Exercises to train the skills of observing and studied the model for drawing - drawing by nature

The shape-surface ratio, the study of the elements anatomical- nose, eyes, lips, ear

The shape-surface ratio, the study of the elements anatomical - hand, foot

The relation linear rhythm-value-study of the elements anatomical - skull, crossbones

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

Icons & Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Alfredo Tradigo
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2006 · -
The Meaning of Icons
Leonid Ouspensky, Vladimir Lossky
St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, New York, 1999 · -
Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise of Painting
Richard Shaw Pooler
Abridged edition Vernon Press, Verlag, 2015 · -