ACV101 - Painting in the Visual Arts
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Geelong (Waurn Ponds), Community Based Delivery (CBD)* Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Simon Grennan Trimester 3: Simon Grennan |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | AAV123, ACF101, ACV401 |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) | |
Content
This unit asks students to explore the discipline of painting in a variety of ways. Alongside a staged technical approach concepts such as remediation and representation are used to frame the practice in historical and contemporary contexts. Key to the unit is a concentration on the medium as crucial in the development of the way we perceive the image, and practice art, in the 21st century. Thus the unit specifically addresses painting by exploring materiality, techniques, and its surface qualities; as well as its deployment in the history of images. Students do this through classes, workshops, studio intensive weeks, critical discussions and seminars. One of the main tools used to develop a folio of artworks is the workbook/journal, which acts as a place to gather information, contextualize ideas, experiment and reflect. To resolve a series of artworks students will develop their own ideas, technical approaches and problem-solving skills in this dynamic and contemporary unit.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Engage with painting, through studio practice, writing and verbal communication in ways that are informed by a knowledge of the medium's technical, formal, historical and theoretical dimensions | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Organise and verbally communicate presentations informed by reading research and discussion | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO6: Self Management |
| ULO3 | Create a body of artworks that respond to given briefs and are informed by historical and contemporary practices in painting including its material, technical, aesthetic and conceptual dimensions | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Visual Diary - Visual and written support material | 800 word or equivalent | 20% | Information not yet available |
| Assessment 2: Studio work – major painting tasks | 2400 word or equivalent | 60% | Information not yet available |
| Assessment 3: (Group) Oral Presentation | 800 word or equivalent | 20% | Information not yet available |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ACV101 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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