Course ARS 211 · Year II · Autumn 2024-2025

THE STUDY OF PAINTING FOR ICONOGRAPHY (III)

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

The study of color for iconography analyzes from a chromatic point of view a series of practical notions such as: chromatic contrast, tonal chord, chromatic harmony, chromatic dominance, the rendering of form through color. 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 iconography

Foray into chromatology

Introduction to color theory-color circle, primary colors, secondary colors

Complementarity applied on a static nature

Warm colors / cool colors

Harmonies / disharmonies

Types of chromatic harmonies

Chromatic ranges

Gradients

Color contrast

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

Color rendering of the human figure

Perspective in artistic painting

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

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
Colum Hourihane
Oxford University Press Colecția OUP USA, New York, 2012 · -
The Italian Paintings Before 1400
Dillian Gordon
Yale University Press Colecția National Gallery London, London, 2011 · -
The City in Medieval Italian Painting
Felicity Ratte
McFarland & Company, Jefferson, USA, 2006 · -