Module Details

Module Code: ARTS8043
Title: Drawing: Communication
Long Title: Drawing: Communication
NFQ Level: Advanced
Valid From: Semester 2 - 2024/25 ( January 2025 )
Duration: 1 Semester
Credits: 5
Field of Study: 2110 - Visual Arts
Module Delivered in: 4 programme(s)
Module Description: This module further explores drawing concepts in Fine Art practice as a means of extending the learner's awareness of visual vocabulary.
 
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Utilise analytical observational drawing methodologies in the life room with a life model, displaying critical awareness of process and media choice.
LO2 Identify and select appropriate drawing responses to complex visual and experiential challenges, understanding the varied restrictions and disciplines required to resolve a drawing.
LO3 Diversify and improvise processes that explore how to visually communicate our daily lived experience of the world, in the moment, and how this transmits to the viewer.
LO4 Evaluate critical and practical links from research with a developed autonomy.
LO5 Apply correctly etiquette and health and safety requirements when working in a life room with a life model.
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named MTU module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
Incompatible Modules
These are modules which have learning outcomes that are too similar to the learning outcomes of this module. You may not earn additional credit for the same learning and therefore you may not enrol in this module if you have successfully completed any modules in the incompatible list.
No incompatible modules listed
Co-requisite Modules
No Co-requisite modules listed
Requirements

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is mandatory before enrolment in this module is allowed. You may not enrol on this module if you have not acquired the learning specified in this section.
No requirements listed
 
Indicative Content
Research
Compile and record documentation of class based visual experiments. Collect relevant sources of contemporary exhibition and critical reviews.
Group Critique
Critical and contextual group discussions centred on a range of traditional and non-traditional fine art drawing practices. Analyse and develop an understanding of drawings varied function within a multifarious media artscape. Engage in collaborative and individual presentations.
Practical
Observational drawing techniques that develop accuracy of analyses with a life model and/or other sources, exploring traditional and non-traditional processes, pictorial structure and surface. Peer collaborative experimentation. An enquiry of the art work's physical and perceptual values, methods of display, interaction with the environment.
Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Coursework100.00%

Assessments

Coursework
Assessment Type Performance Evaluation % of Total Mark 100
Timing Sem End Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4,5
Assessment Description
Portfolio of coursework
No End of Module Formal Examination
Reassessment Requirement
Coursework Only
This module is reassessed solely on the basis of re-submitted coursework. There is no repeat written examination.

The University reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecturer-Supervised Learning (Contact) Contact Drawing workshop Every Week 3.00 3
Independent & Directed Learning (Non-contact) Non Contact Application Every Week 4.00 4
Total Hours 7.00
Total Weekly Learner Workload 7.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 3.00
This module has no Part Time workload.
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Emma Dexter. (2005), Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing (Themes), Phaidon Press, [ISBN: 0714845450].
  • Connie Butler, Benjamin Buchloch. (2010), On Line Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, MOMA, New York, [ISBN: 0870707825].
  • John Berger. Berger on Drawing, 2005. Occasional Press, [ISBN: 0-9548976-0-9].
  • Sarah Simblet. (2009), The Drawing Book, DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), p.0, [ISBN: 9781405341233].
  • Louise Gordon. (1989), The Figure in Action: Anatomy for Artists, Batsford, [ISBN: 0713459468].
  • Mick Maslen, Jack Southern. (2011), Drawing Projects, Black Dog Pub Limited, p.239, [ISBN: 9781907317255].
  • Roger Malbert. (2015), Drawing People, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated, p.256, [ISBN: 9781938922688].
  • Russell Marshall, Phil Sawdon (Eds.). (2012), Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, I. B. Tauris, [ISBN: 9781780762548].
  • Jordan Kantor, Gary Garrels. (2005), Drawing from the Modern: 1975 - 2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, p.240, [ISBN: 0870706659].
  • Deanna Petherbridge. (2010), The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice, Yale University Press, [ISBN: 9780300126464].
This module does not have any article/paper resources
Other Resources
 
Module Delivered in
Programme Code Programme Semester Delivery
CR_AACER_8 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Contemporary Applied Art (Ceramics, Glass, Textiles) 6 Elective
CR_AFAFA_8 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art 6 Elective
CR_AACER_7 Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Applied Art (Ceramics, Glass, Textiles) 6 Elective
CR_AFINA_7 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art 6 Elective