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DWG1202

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Art, Design and Architecture

Organisational Unit

Department of Fine Art

Coordinator(s)

Dr Stephen Garrett

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

An intensive program which extends students' intellectual and practical skills in seeing, observation, analysis, selection and visual expression; sequential projects are set to facilitate these outcomes. Individual response and interpretation are encouraged to assist students to develop a personal visual language that underpins and aids their major study.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will:

  1. be able to represent objects and their spatial relationships with a growing understanding of form and volume, their underlying structures, and how these are manipulated to achieve a successful expressive outcome
  2. competently use a broad range of drawing methods and materials
  3. have a deepening understanding of the theoretical, aesthetic, philosophical and historical contexts that inform conventional and contemporary Fine Art drawing practice and a curiosity to pursue these issues further
  4. be able to consider the aesthetic possibilities arising from the tension between expressive impulses and observational objectivity
  5. relish the capacity to observe and assess previous visual knowledge by discovering new knowledge; to analyse these discoveries and, by selection and sythesis, develop an individual expressive response and working process that may form the basis for a personal visual language.

Assessment

Folio: 100%

Workload requirements

4 studio hours and 8 independent study hours per week

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Stephen Garrett

Prerequisites

DWG1201