Director: Pantelis Handris, Associate professor
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
1st semester
a. Drawing exercises from life aiming at the students coming into contact with an expanded approach to the expressive ways and materials through which the representational drawing is expressed.
b. Colour exercises from life (tone, shade, saturation/basic, complementary) through which the understanding of how the colour functions is sought, as well as the organization of the painting surface.
c. Basic drawing exercises aiming at the understanding of the concept “drawing” in a broader way, expressed and organized in two dimensions. Familiarization with techniques and materials.
The curriculum is supplemented by a series of presentations and lectures and visits to exhibition areas and museums.
2nd semester
a. Exercises from life model (model-composition), encouraging the deepening of research, the materials and techniques of visual language, to better understand the expressive plastic vocabulary.
b. Studies of themes from life (compositions - models), the aim of which is to acquire skills arising from the study, focusing on the understanding of the representational and perceptual space of painting, through the abstraction and reconstruction of the themes.
c. Studies on collage, texture, mannerism and mixed techniques and exercises encouraging the use of other expression means, such as photography and computers.
The curriculum is supplemented by a series of presentations and lectures and visits to exhibition areas and museums.
3rd semester
Long- or small- duration exercises the general context of which is a thematic exercise focusing on the form and lasting the entire semester. This thematic exercise is supplemented by supporting lectures and presentations.
The course consists of drawing, plastic, exercises, encouraging the research for expressive ways that aim to render the two-dimensional but also the three-dimensional surface. In addition, further familiarization and deepening into materials and techniques of the visual language are sought as well as the development of the students’ ability for composition and combination, aiming at the expression of things without, necessarily, this concerning just their representation.
At the same time, the students continue their study on the human model along the same lines of concerns and searches.
The curriculum is supplemented by a series of presentations and lectures and visits to exhibition areas and museums.
4th semester
The study in the 4th semester is based on a thematic exercise lasting the entire semester.
The aim of this exercise, and in general of the curriculum in this semester, is:
a. Get in touch with the significations of objects and things
b. Develop the students’ capability of deepening and analysing concepts
c. Explore their illustrative and morphoplastic abilities via experimentation and workshop practice
d. Further exercise of their ability for composition and expression on the two-dimensional surface but also on its three-dimensional aspects.
The curriculum is supplemented by a series of presentations and lectures and visits to exhibition areas and museums.
The thematic exercise of the 4th semester is updated every year.
5th semester
The study in the 5th semester is based on a thematic exercise lasting the entire semester.
The aim of this exercise, and in general of the curriculum in this semester, is:
a. Introduction to the methodology of research
The sketch book, as a means representing the course, the path someone took through the required research to create a visual art work.
b. The investigation of procedures (mental - practical) that can lead to the organisation of a visual proposal
c. Students’ initiation in expressive languages and artistic practices relating to the aspects of form and space management
d. Creation of a work through the workshop practice from a complex process
e. Development of a verbal argumentation supporting the final work
The curriculum is supplemented by a series of presentations and lectures and visits to exhibition areas and museums.
The thematic exercise of the 5th semester is updated every year.
6th semester
The study of the 6th semester is based on a thematic exercise related to the concept of the “Landscape” and lasting the entire semester.
The title of the thematic is “Nature as a landscape and the aspects of landscape art”.
The aim of the exercise is the students to seek the ways to express, through visual art works, another, a new version of the concept of land, turning towards the landscape and landscape art as a way to represent lands and their properties.
At an era, when the changes in the definition and representation of the landscape are accompanied by changes in the way nature is seen, observed and understood, the capabilities of the new means and their extensive application to get spatial information create the need to re-evaluate the representation of land, of the landscape.
7th semester
The thematic examines the concept of the “Garden”.
The semester is organized aiming at producing works, on the occasion of a series of presentations and lectures, on Nature, the Landscape and its contemporary expression versions.
The framework of the thematic is supplemented by;
a. presentations and analyses of works from many expression fields dealing in many and various ways with the concept of “garden”.
b. presentations and discussions on relative texts of theoreticians, through which the interdisciplinary research and approach of a theme is cultivated; i.e. texts written by M. Heidegger, M. De Certau, R. Smithson, F. Zika, G. Mentza, M. Maropoulou and others.
The learning objectives of the exercise are:
a. The investigation of procedures (conceptual - practical) through which students can be guided to the organisation of a visual proposal communicating with the central point of the thematic.
The work or works created by students must be the result from the extensive and thorough research of the theme, at a conceptual but also practical level.
b. Their contact with theoretical texts.
c. Students’ initiation in expressive languages and artistic practices relating to the aspects of form and space, narrative (linear, non linear)
d. The development of structured argumentation in a small text (300 words) supporting the final work.
e. On-site research and recording in areas that are gardens or can or potentially may be designated as gardens.
The curriculum is supplemented by a series of visits to exhibition areas and museums.
8th semester
In the 8th semester, students are free to continue working on the visual outcomes from the thematic of the previous semester, further developing them or to choose to work on a thematic that is of their personal interest.
The course is comprised of discussions - meetings with each student to detect and treat the expression problems that exist in each case.
These meetings take place at a personal level, but many times the participation of all the students of the same year is required so that there is creative interaction in the group.
The aim of these discussions is to advance to corrections and give theoretical but also technical directions aiming at a structured thought and an act, organized in expression, through which a perfectly implemented visual art work will result.
9th semester
The learning objective of this semester is:
a. Clarification of the subject of the thesis
b. Defining the expressive, conceptual and theoretical context of the personal work of the students pending graduation, through the comparative study of similar artistic areas from the history and theory of art.
c. The analysis and processing of the plastic requirements in the implementation of the personal idiom of each student aiming at compiling a perfect thesis, deriving finally from extensive research based on theoretical research and practice.
10th semester
Students, after researching and understanding their artistic works in many levels, advance to the preparation of their theses resulting from an internal personal search and experimentation aiming at submitting their personal idioms through which students understand things and communicate them.
The theoretical support text is prepared in cooperation with students of the theoretical department chosen by the student pending graduation for a creative cooperation of the two departments.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
SCHEDULE:
Workshop operating hours: Everyday from 8:00 to 20:00
Teaching hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10:00-15:00
Hours of specific courses: Class with nude model, daily 10:00 - 13:00
ACTIVITIES
(Archive)
Workshops
Workshop J, apart from its workshop activity, participates in workshops held in the context of activity exchange between the schools, the Athens School of Fine Arts and the IN SITU department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium
The aim of the in situ workshops, apart from maintaining an extrovert image for the school, is the exchange of teaching methodology at the level of the faculty, the development of the students’ skills in deepening their knowledge and analyzing the concepts.
The expansion of their illustrative and morphoplastic abilities and their further practice of their synthetic and expressive capability.
Familiarization and deep knowledge in the visual language techniques and concerns on aesthetic matters and art theory and utilization of the multiple benefits for the students and the faculty through this complex educational process.
The aim of these workshops is to provide students, through visual art handling, with the opportunity to produce visual outcomes in situ, related to expression areas that arise from the site-specific project process.
Supervising professors:
Leon Vranken, professor, director of the IN SITU department, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium
Pantelis Handris, Associate Professor, Athens School of Fine Arts
Site-specific projects:
2012-2013: Wenduine and Russeignies.
2013-2014: Athens and Hydra
2014-2015: Antwerpen and Escalles.
2015-2016: Athens and Hydra
2016-2017: Athens and Hydra