Language of Drawing II (VA 204)

2024 Spring
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Vis. Arts&Vis.l Comm Des.(VA)
3
7
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar keremozan.bayraktar@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Undergraduate
VA203
Workshop,Studio work/practice,One-to-one tutorial
Learner centered,Communicative,Discussion based learning,Project based learning,Task based learning,Guided discovery,Case Study
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Programs\Type Required Core Elective Area Elective
Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design *
Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design *

CONTENT

This course is a continuation of VA 203. Advanced tasks and individual experiments on large-scale drawings and renderings are to be performed in the studio. The focus is on broadening ways of perception, interplay of light and dark, use of color and paint, and general improvement of the individual's drawing skills with the guidance of the instructor.

OBJECTIVE

This course investigates drawing as both a technical practice and a process of critical inquiry. You will engage with drawing as a tool for analyzing and reshaping how we perceive objects, spaces, and ideas.
Combining observational studies, structured experimentation, and collaborative exercises, the course emphasizes drawing’s capacity to construct, deconstruct, and transform visual forms. You will work with diverse materials, scales, and approaches to explore themes of fragmentation, reconstruction, and conceptual development. By the end of the semester, you will produce a body of work that reflects a deliberate and informed engagement with drawing as a dynamic and versatile discipline.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Demonstrate precision and nuance in representing objects, textures, and spatial relationships.
  • Analyze and reinterpret visual forms through processes of deconstruction, abstraction, and transformation.
  • Combine foundational drawing techniques with innovative approaches to create work that is both technically and conceptually rigorous.
  • Create a cohesive body of work that reflects individual artistic concerns, informed by the semester’s studies.
  • Communicate the conceptual and technical underpinnings of their work through written and verbal reflections.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others. 4

2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice. 4

3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself. 5

4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means. 2

5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. 3

1. Develop knowledge of theories, concepts, and research methods in humanities and social sciences. 3

2. Assess how global, national and regional developments affect society. 3

3. Know how to access and evaluate data from various sources of information. 2

1. Demonstrate safe working habits and a general understanding of materials and processes in the visual arts. 5

2. Demonstrate knowledge of representational processes using visual as well as audial material as mediums of representation. 4

3. Show working knowledge of the process of transforming abstract/textual concepts into concrete, audio/visual forms. 5

4. Appreciate and express the cultural significance of art and understand its evolution and purposes. 5

5. Develop an awareness of compositional and organizational strategies for the effective deployment of formal elements of visual art. 5

6. Read visual texts with a deep knowledge of art history and theory and the ability of situating the content and form of the visual representation both in a historical and thematic context. 4

7. Employ necessary background knowledge regarding art administration in the body of museums and galleries. 1

8. Show a practical and technical command of materials and methods in one or more media of the visual arts. 5

ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA

  Percentage (%)
Final 40
Participation 5
Individual Project 55

RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS

Optional Readings

Anania, Katie. Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America. Yale University Press, 2024.
Anderson-Tempini, Gemma, and John Dupré. Drawing Processes of Life: Molecules, Cells, Organisms. 2023.
Anderson-Tempini, Gemma. Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science. Intellect Books, 2017.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Univ of California Press, 1954.
Arnold, Dana. Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time, and the Embodied Description of the Past. Manchester University Press, 2020.
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten. The Philosophy of Lines: From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace. Springer Nature, 2021.
Butler, Cornelia H. Afterimage: Drawing Through Process. MIT Press, 1999.
Chorpening, Kelly, and Rebecca Fortnum. A Companion to Contemporary Drawing. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer. MIT Press, 1990.
Davidson, Margaret. Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques. Watson-Guptill, 2011.
Elkins, James. The Poetics of Perspective. Cornell University Press, 1994.
Garner, Steve. Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and Research. Intellect, 2008.
Ingold, Tim. Lines: A Brief History. Routledge, 2016.
Kantrowitz, Andrea. Drawing Thought: How Drawing Helps Us Observe, Discover, and Invent. MIT Press, 2022.
Kentridge, William. Six Drawing Lessons. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Kinsella, Karl. God's Own Language: Architectural Drawing in the Twelfth Century. MIT Press, 2023.
Marshall, Russell, and Phil Sawdon, eds. Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Pleasure in Drawing. Fordham University Press, 2013.
Panofsky, Erwin. Perspective as Symbolic Form. Princeton University Press, 2020.
Rawson, Philip. Drawing. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Ruskin, John. The Elements of Drawing. Courier Corporation, 1971.
Scolari, Massimo, and Jenny Condie Palandri. Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective. MIT Press, 2012.
Seligman, Isabel, and Hugo Chapman. Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now. Thames & Hudson, 2019.
Witt, Andrew. Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture. MIT Press, 2022.