Course detail

Modelling - Relief Design

FSI-YMLAcad. year: 2020/2021

The subject is focuses on modelling a relief of head by plaster bust. It allows students developing knowledge in modelling techniques and gaining experience for building 3D volume and character of objects in space.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. akad. soch. Ladislav Křenek, ArtD.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design (ÚK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

- The ability to put down student´s visual ideas and fantasies.
- The deepening the sense for mass in space.
- The ability to guess measures, volumes and distances.
- The development the basic craft of clay modelling.

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of perspective in drawing and experience of modelling skull and head by plaster bust are prerequisite.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Creative work in ateliers.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Graded course-unit credit requirements: Attendance at exercises, meeting assigned projects deadlines.
Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on tasks. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
If some of the projects are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed".
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The graduates will be able to model the head according to plaster bust, emphasizing the building of volume and proportions.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Compulsory attendance at seminars. Education runs according to the week schedule. The way of compensation of missed seminars is specified by the tutor.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BAMMES, Gottfried. Der nackte Mensch: Hand und Lehrbuch der Anatomie für Künstler. Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1982. ISBN 3-364-00016-6.
GOLDFINGER, Eliot. Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0195052060.
KOS, Jaroslav a Pavel ŽILÁK. Anatomie člověka pro výtvarníky. Praha: Aventinum, 1996. ISBN 80-85277-98-0.

Recommended reading

KOS, Jaroslav a Pavel ŽILÁK. Anatomie člověka pro výtvarníky. Praha: Aventinum, 1996. ISBN 80-85277-98-0.
MALIVA, Josef. Doteky s uměním a časem II. díl: Přehled dějin umění od baroka do poloviny 20. století. Brno: Vysoké učení technické v Brně, 1997. ISBN 80-214-1088-4.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B3A-P Bachelor's

    branch B-PDS , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Studio work

39 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

akad. soch. Josef Sládek, ArtD.

Syllabus

- 1st assignment, modelling head relief by plaster bust, basics of its construction.
- Modelling head relief by plaster bust.
- Modelling head relief by plaster bust; evaluation of 1st assignment / analysis of strengths and weaknesses of individual works/.
- 2nd assignment modelling head relief by plaster bust.
- Modelling head relief by plaster bust.
- Modelling head relief by plaster bust; evaluation of 2nd assignment / analysis of strengths and weaknesses of individual works/.
- 3rd assignment modelling head relief by plaster bust.
- Modelling head relief by plaster bust.
- Modelling head relief by plaster bust; evaluation of 3rd assignment / analysis of strengths and weaknesses of individual works/; evaluation of whole semester.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course