Subject 'History of Sculpture. Abstraction and Space I'

Year:   2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    2019/2020    

This advanced course introduces the world of abstract forms, and trains the corresponding sense (including the comparison with the realistic form). The course examines very different abstract trends during the whole 20th century and their corresponding new contemporary strategies in the 21th centuries. The relations between the abstract form and space will be analysed. This course includes the majority of the analytical methods of contemporary art. This theoretical course includes generating the so-called idea project for the creative work.

Upon completion of the course, students will:
• be familiar with the different trends of an abstract form since modernism, appreciate the abstract form as an independent message carrier, and comprehend the value of the abstract creation in the development of sculpture;
• be able to understand the abstract form and analyse it by using different analytical methods of art;
• be able to sense, perceive and analyse the mutual relations between the abstract and realistic works;
• be familiar with the relation between the sculptural form and architectural and landscape space in the history of sculpture, be able to sense and analyse the proportional/compositional relations of the abstract and realistic form with the interior and exterior space and different spatial positioning strategies;
• be familiar and able to analyse different conceptual strategies of the abstract and realistic form in the industrial, technological and natural landscape and in the so-called social space;
• be familiar with the most important authors of abstract sculpture, (spatial) installation and other spatial visual art and their works;
• be interested and inspired by the development of form and spatial perception and the space projects.

2015: 2263  

2014: 2263  

2013: S,2263