Subject 'History of Sculpture. From Dada to Surrealism. Abstraction and Space'

Year:   2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    2019/2020    2020/2021    

This course focuses on the specifics of Dada and Surrealism in the modern sculpture and their new developments in the middle of the 20th century and in the 21th century and the resulting diversification of the notion of the sculptural object and its increasing, more direct and reflective connection with the community processes, existential concerns and the perception mechanisms of a human subject. This theoretical course includes generating the so-called idea project for the creative work.
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, understand and value the significant contribution of Dada ready-made to the development of the content and form of sculpture, and be able to analyse new relation strategies of conception and form;
• be familiar, understand and value the contribution of Dada to the development of the social critical trend of sculpture, and have enhanced their knowledge and experience in the social analysis of the art work;
• be familiar, understand and value different automatism and assemblage strategies of Surrealism in sculpture;
• have the basic experience of applying the psychoanalytical analysis method in the analysis of sculptural work;
• have enhanced their perception and sensory experience through the formalist analysis of specific (Neo)Dada and (Neo)Surrealistic forms;
• be familiar with the most important form and installation artists of (Neo)Dada and (Neo)Surrealism and their works;
• be able to analyse the (Neo)Dada and (Neo)Surrealistic genetic roots in the contemporary (post) post-modernist sculpture, and to appropriate the strategies suitable for themselves;
• be interested in the social critical and psychoanalytical or in other words, on the one hand in the community-centred and, on the other hand, the individual-centred approaches, and be familiar and perceive their differences and mutual mechanisms.
• 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.

2019: 2263  

2018: 2263  

2017: 2263  

2016: 2263