Painting in Contemporary Art

Objectives

The aim is to engage students in painting as a practice of contemporary art. Moreover, students are motivated to carry out the comparative analysis of recent artistic poetics.

Outcomes

Students are taught to relate their own painting practice, that is, painting representations of the real or imagined world, to a specific system of production, exhibition, reception, interpretation, representation and sale of art. They know the concept of authorship (in art).

They learn about selected modernist and postmodernist paradigms in painting and visual arts. They understand recent changes concerning the status, appearance and effect of paintings on contemporary art.

Course content

Lectures

Contemporary art. Drawing and painting in the context of contemporary art. Modernist and postmodernist painting paradigms. Painting in the era of new media. Painting as a form of expression. Image as a means of intervention in the specific context of market, culture and politics. Painting and photography. Painting as ambient art. Graphic design as an extension of painting aesthetics. The artist’s intentions: towards galleries, museums and the market. Curatorial techniques of showing, listing, networking, encouraging and banning, excluding and erasing.

Research work

Through research work, students analyse references relevant to postmodernist painting paradigms, and paint series of paintings.

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