Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Painting: Old Country, New Visions
  • Unit Code

    VIS2519
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

Studio exercises and field trips will be the foundation for students to explore the technical and conceptual components of landscape painting. Formal processes such as colour, tone, texture, and composition will be introduced alongside workshops into various painting media. Students will be introduced to the history of landscape painting from Western, Eastern, and indigenous Australian perspectives. Through observation and analysis of local landscapes, they will then identify points of difference or similarities with these traditions. The relationship between drawing and painting will be a key relationship in the research, development, and resolution of final works.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from VIS1305

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2509

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create paintings that recognize the role of both perceptual studies and conceptual research.
  2. Define and apply formal processes such as colour, tone, texture, and composition.
  3. Generate artworks that demonstrate the role drawing plays in painting.
  4. Identify and differentiate between various landscape painting traditions.

Unit Content

  1. Formal elements of painting (colour, tone, texture, composition).
  2. Painting media and processes.
  3. The relationship between drawing and painting.
  4. The relationship between the field and the studio.
  5. The terminology and verbal analysis of developmental and finished artworks.
  6. Western, Eastern, and Aboriginal Australian landscape painting traditions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Seminars. Demonstrations. Workshops and site visits.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkStudio and research Projects40%
Creative WorkStudio and research projects60%

Text References

  • Bois, Y. (1990). Painting as model. Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press.
  • Seddon, G. (2005). The old country, Australian landscapes, plants and people. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
  • Burn, I. (1991). Dialogue, writings in art history. North Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Website References


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Painting: Old Country, New Visions
  • Unit Code

    VIS2519
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

Studio exercises and field trips will be the foundation for students to explore the technical and conceptual components of landscape painting. Formal processes such as colour, tone, texture, and composition will be introduced alongside workshops into various painting media. Students will be introduced to the history of landscape painting from Western, Eastern, and indigenous Australian perspectives. Through observation and analysis of local landscapes, they will then identify points of difference or similarities with these traditions. The relationship between drawing and painting will be a key relationship in the research, development, and resolution of final works.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from VIS1305

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VIS2509

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create paintings that recognize the role of both perceptual studies and conceptual research.
  2. Define and apply formal processes such as colour, tone, texture, and composition.
  3. Generate artworks that demonstrate the role drawing plays in painting.
  4. Identify and differentiate between various landscape painting traditions.

Unit Content

  1. Formal elements of painting (colour, tone, texture, composition).
  2. Painting media and processes.
  3. The relationship between drawing and painting.
  4. The relationship between the field and the studio.
  5. The terminology and verbal analysis of developmental and finished artworks.
  6. Western, Eastern, and Aboriginal Australian landscape painting traditions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Seminars. Demonstrations. Workshops and site visits.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkStudio and research Projects40%
Creative WorkStudio and research projects60%

Text References

  • Bois, Y. (1990). Painting as model. Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press.
  • Seddon, G. (2005). The old country, Australian landscapes, plants and people. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
  • Burn, I. (1991). Dialogue, writings in art history. North Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Website References


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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