about the course flow

关于每一堂课的Keyword Brainstorm:

1. The Artist Within: Left-brain vs. Right-brain Perception
To know your own body through images & to raise interest in drawing skill practise.
* First drawings:
Up-down reversed drawing for classmate; blind drawing to music; left hand drawing.
* Involve choerography.
From face expression, hand gesture to body movement. Degas.
* Analyse the image:
Strokes; composition; color. vs emotion; feelings; intention.
* Dot, line, surface, volumn. Kandinsky.


2. Purpose of Art: Imitation vs. Expression
To compare and apply the two different ways of art-making: copy and/or extension of the nature.
＊在此想比较中西方自然与画家的关系。以及绘画材料对画的影响。
The eastern: 从玄学思想影响的魏晋山水开始到文人画的大写意。具象画较晚出现。
The western: Medieval religous painting, Da Vinci, Jan van EyckCézanne, to Modernism.
Some tools: (composition from last lecture) to GRID. Dürer.
Extension:
* The students' understanding of the nature.
* Do a sound recording of students drawing same strokes over and over. Students do a solo one after one. (Can also use Akio Susuki's rubber/glass painting.)


3. Painting and Poetry in Western and Eastern Traditions
Literature & Visual literacy.
Illustrations for Bible.
William Blake.
Chinese poems and scenery paintings.
Instructional Paintings by Yoko Ono.


4. Western Academy Painting vs. Chinese Intellectual Paintings
* need reconsideration. I would like to input knowledge about western painters in China from Ming-Qing dynasties and minimize the content of western academy painting, since this concept varies a lot in styles and concept through different stages of art history.


5. Painting after the Invention of Photography
Camera obscura
The dutch scenery paintings. Vermeer
David Hockney.
Super-realism in current scene.


6. Impressionist and Expressionist and Their Influence from the East
Turner.
Monet.
Gauguin.
Lautrec
* Suggest to add a lecture to talk about Ukiyo-e.


7. Exploring Unique Visions: Cubism and Abstract Schools of Paintings
Cubism's linkage to space - 3d, video/time - 4d.
Picasso. Mondrian. Duchamp. Dadaism. Milo. Magaret. Klee.


8. Women Painters from Different Countries: Engendered Eyes and Experiences
Women Artists link on wiki.
Some possible choices:
Frida Kahlo. 潘玉良. Valadon. 单峥. Cassatt. Yayoi Kusama.


9. Eastern Masters Trained in the West: Reinventing the Ancient Visions


10. Revolutionary Paintings: Russian Prints and Chinese Woodcut Prints
* can't find much information about russian prints...
Escher.
Kollwitz.


11. Japanese Manga vs. American Comics
Suggest to broaden the countries/artists. for exampple: 丰子恺.
Character styling. Cosplay. Story telling.


12. World Maps in Various Forms
Information Design.


13. Mapping in Visual Storytelling and Design
Make a sketchbook / booklet, a summary of the whole course.