Colour Theory and History of Painting (5 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

Student is able to observe colours, shapes, composition and perspective. Student is able to recognize various colour systems and can use them. Students have a basic knowledge and understanding of some of the key historical periods and critical developments that inform contemporary painting practice and theory. Student is able to collaborate in an international student team.

Content (course unit)

Colour systems, theory, analysis, practical work

Prerequisites (course unit)

Basics of the subject.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

TAMK's general instruction for grading will be applied and details agreed at the beginning of course implementation:

https://intra.tamk.fi/web/tutkinto-opinto-opas/arviointi

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

TAMK's general instruction for grading will be applied and details agreed at the beginning of course implementation:

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Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

TAMK's general instruction for grading will be applied and details agreed at the beginning of course implementation:

https://intra.tamk.fi/web/tutkinto-opinto-opas/arviointi

Assessment scale

0-5

Content scheduling

COLOUR THEORY AND HISTORY OF PAINTING - IM00DT60-3003 (spring 2022)

History of Painting section by Jyrki Siukonen will be organised 25.1. – 22.2.2022 on Tuesdays at 13–16.

Colour Theory section

All lectures will be available in Moodle as PDF-files.

IMPORTANT: In any Colour Theory course painting assignments do not use borderlines! Connect different colours to each other straight or smoothly with gradient.

Tuesday 25.1. at 10–12 in 20061

 Start of the colour theory part in the course: content, timetable, evaluation
 Lecture 1 and demonstration: Reproduction of Painting (notice iWeek´s need)
 Assignment 1: Make later high quality repro on one of your painting and upload the file to Moodle.

Tuesday 8.3. at 9.30–15 in 20064 (and 20013)

 Lecture 2: What is a Colour
 Assignment 2 and 3
 Feedback at 14

Assignment 2: Photograph with your mobile phone´s camera some small object. Use some strong colour in background. Don´t edit the file at all, print the image with school´s laser printer.

Assignment 3: Paint the same subject with gouache to the A3-paper. Try to get colours in your image as much same as in the original object. At the same time try to express how you feel the object. Leave a background in the image quite neutral or white. Totally monochrome images are not allowed now. Pure black or white colours are not allowed either.


Tuesday 15.3. at 9.30–15 in 20064 (and 20013)

 Lecture 3: Colour Theories and Systems
 Assignment 4 and 5
 Feedback at 14

Assignment 4: Colorize with Photoshop a given Itten´s colour wheel you find from Moodle (teach show how). Add you name to it. Flatten image and print it.

Assignment 5: Paint the wheel with gouache to the A3 paper as carefully you can. Try to get similar colours and intervals as in “original”.




Tuesday 22.3. at 9.30–15 in 20064

 Lecture 4: Contrasts
 Assignment 6
 Feedback at 14

Assignment 6: Copy to A3 paper with thin and weak lines a given images. Paint the image so that you fill in with colours areas between lines. Try to create an illusion of a three-dimensional space using “warm” and “cold” colours.

Tuesday 29.3. at 9.30–15 in 20064

 Lecture 5: Harmony
 Assignment 7
 Feedback at 14

Assignment 7: Paint with gouache to the A3 paper harmonic and disharmonic image. So, return two images.

Tuesday 12.4. at 9.30–15 in 20064

 Lecture 5: Shortly about Colours as Symbols
 Assignment 8
 Assignment 9 (return tomorrow)
 Feedback for assignment 8 at 14

Assignment 8: Paint with gouache to the A3 paper a symbolic image. Use only abstract forms. Give a title to your image.

Assignment 9: Write a short clarification / statement about what kind of symbolic meanings colours have to you. Save the text file to Moodle implementation of the course by Friday 22.4.2022.


Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, colour and line to create a composition, which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. A viewer does not recognize any real object of the real world.

Abstract ≈ non-figurative art ≈ non-objective art ≈ and non-representational art.