Aim

• The course aims to stimulate individual students’ artistic abilities, so as to increase the preconditions for continued education of their skills in visual communication and creatively making gestalt designs.

• The course aims further to enable them to take advantage of their individual experiences in visual communication and to initiate a process of development that bit by bit strengthens their individual abilities to think constructively about their own and others’ work and to build up individual students’ personal relationships to aesthetical quality.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• describe fundamental artistic means and techniques.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• in an artistic way represent a three-dimensional situation in a two-dimensional image such as a drawing or a painting.

• within the context of a given task, augment a public space with a deliberately artistic extension.

• for his or her fellow students and their teachers give an oral presentation of a project.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• exhibit a sensitivity to artistic and aesthetical values during formal teaching, discussions and the like, including assessments of the qualities of images.

Contents
Individual students’ abilities to perceive people and objects are stimulated through exercises in drawing and painting, with particular emphasis on how the three dimensions of such objects and the students’ two-dimensional images of them are related to one another; one of the exercises is in artistically creating things to accord with three dimensional public space. Lectures introduce the exercises by clarifying the fundamental conditions of visual communications.

Literature
Reference works
Betty Edwards Teckna med högra hjärnhalvan
Tor Nörretranders Märk världen, en bok om vetenskap och intuition (Stockholm, Bonnier Alba 1993)
a selection of essays