Director: Ioannis Melanitis, Assistant Professor
Faculty:
Aikaterini Athanasiou, Special Teaching Staff
Dimitra Panourgia, Laboratory Teaching Staff
DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP
The main teaching axes of the workshop:- A theoretical approach and a working application to the modern art scene, at a local and international level.
- Pilot exercises as well as free exercises in and outside the studio.
- Discussions for criticising and evaluating ideas and projects within the wider workshop group.
- Teaching visits.
- Engaging students through modern experiential teaching tactics and means, groups of student visitors.
- Mixing students from different geographical and cultural backgrounds in order to expand their knowledge in an interdisciplinary, inter-university and inter-cultural way, socialisation of students.
- Collaboration between the workshop and graduate and post-graduate students (Beijing School of Fine Arts).
Planning takes place at the beginning of each year, but, in general, the general planning/vision for the 5-year course of studies is implemented.
Some specific details regarding teaching:
Semester A΄ & Β΄, the workshop students are taught:
- Main principles of free-hand drawing
- Studying and drawing of animate and inanimate (models) from life
- Exercise on positioning the subject on the drawing surface
- Main principles of perspective
- Knowledge on the feasibility and the psychology of design
- Management of different materials and rendering the texture of materials on the surface
- Free exercises and development of discussion in the wider workshop group
In Semester C, the workshop students are taught:
- Composition principles
- Study and design of large scale compositions with objects and models from life
- Understanding and analysing a work of art as a whole and classification of the its various components
- Organisation and composition of the components of a work of art as a whole in order to express an idea/proposal
- Free exercises and development of discussion in the wider workshop group
- Designing large scale compositions with object and models from life
- Studying and working in interior and outdoor/natural spaces
- Studying the format and the content of a work of art
- Analysing and creating a work of art
- Studying the structure of a composition
- Studying the geometric details of a composition
- Studying the importance and the dynamic of colour and colour elements
- Evaluating and exercising on axiality, symmetry, rhythm/repetition
- Evaluating and exercising on scale, the golden ration, the harmonic systems
- Evaluating composition in Architecture and Sculpture (interior spaces-environment)
- Studying the importance and the dynamic of materials
- Free exercises and development of discussion in the wider workshop group
In Semester E, the workshop students are taught:
- Designing large scale compositions with objects and models from life
- Study and individual project in and outside of the studio
- Individual proposals on the structure of a composition, positioning of shapes and objects in space and resolving any relevant issues
- Studying composition and researching works of artists from different artistic movements
- Free exercises and development of discussion in the wider workshop group
In Semester F, the workshop students are taught/work on:
- Presenting individual projects/compositions with free selection of themes, tone and structural elements
- Free exercises and development of discussion in the wider workshop group
In Semester G & H, the workshop students are taught/work on:
- Presenting individual projects/compositions with free selection of themes, tone and structural elements
- Free exercises and development of discussion in the wider workshop group
In Semester I & J, the workshop students are taught/work on:
- PREPARING A DISSERTATION Providing guidance to senior students supporting them in the preparation of their dissertation. Nature of a visual art workshop/visual art lesson
COURSE DESCRIPTION
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
ACTIVITIES
Α) WORKSHOPS, PAPERS & EXHIBITIONS, COLLABORATIONS WITH UNIVERSITIES IN GREECE AND ABROAD, NATIONAL MUSEUMS, EMBASSIES
Β) THEMES: DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, GEOLOGY & ZOOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
C) Collaborations: GREEK FILM ARCHIVE, MUNICIPALITY OF DELPHI