ID107
From Exterior Inwards and the Other Way Around: Idea, Reality and Imitation
Faculty
Stav Yosha
Artist
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Overview
What is an Idea? How do we look for one, find one, and use it? Where do we look for one, is it in the city, or maybe all originality comes from nature? Do we wander around, observe, and collect, or do ideas come from labor and work, through copies?
What is original? In today’s world can we actually tell the difference between an original and a copy? What does art have to do with all of that and what is it for?
In this course, we will try to answer some of these philosophical questions and bring them to day-to-day practice. The main tool for this course will be a sketchbook (digital or visual) that will function as a visual-diary, a place for ideas to be collected, processed and come to life.
Learning highlights
- The course combines studio work with philosophy, archeology and art criticism. Students will gain an understanding of a variety of contemporary and historical artworks, as well as gain insight into formulating their own ideas.
- Students will also explore the fundamentals of 2-Dimensional Design as a means of image making. They will learn to think visually and create a basic arsenal of ideas and impressions using a continuing process. Finally, they will explore line, form, shape, space and color.
Course outline
15 classes
Session 1
“A world of copies without origins”/What is original? What is the place of original and originality in today's world?
Session 2
“What is an Idea and how do we get one?” (artists as observers of the outside or the inside? Sketchbooks and planning by artists).
Session 3
First tour: line and shape: Taking pictures and drawing, or collecting.
Session 4
Second tour: line and shape: museum
Session 5
“The Mimetic model, what is original? What is beautiful?” (Plato vs. Aristotle, what is beautiful, ugly or grotesque? What is the place of art?)
Session 6
Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (part 1)
Session 7
Tour: archaeological museum or site.
Session 8
Archaeology and art (The Phoenicians and cave-paintings as case studies: Holy-Copy, Icon and un-icon, archetype, Divine-source). “Art About Archaeology”.
Session 9
Tour in the city: material: “The Present as Future Archaeology”.
Session 10
Discussion about the texts (Wilde and Benjamin). Presentation: Readymade, copying in art and art as copy, quoting in art.
Session 11
“What is art and color for?” (Political and social art, art for religion, art for the patrons color as a case study). Presenting Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation
Session 12
Tour: color and the question of copy: Picasso museum (?)
Session 13
Tour in the city: Color: “What are Barcelona’s real colors?” Looking for origins and Simulacras. (Collection Museum behind the Catedral).
Session 14
Color, what is it? What does it do? (Color in painting from the caves up to Josef Albers and Vasili Kandinski and onward to the digital world).
Session 15
Final meeting: Baudrillard and onwards. Student presentations of chosen pages and texts.
Prerequisites
This course is appropriate for beginners and those with modest experience. Walking is part of the course. Students should have a basic approach and interest in the “visual world” (design, art, aesthetics…).
Methodology
Throughout the course, we will have in-depth discussions of readings, movies, field trips, and projects that are derived from the theoretical and historical contexts of the readings themselves. The readings will have side-by-side creative assignments.
Grading
Stav grew up in Jerusalem. He studied art and archaeology in Tel-Aviv and received his MFA from Tylor School of Art in Philadelphia, USA . After his MFA Stav moved back to Tel-Aviv, where he practiced his art and taught painting, drawing and sculpture at Shenkar College and Minshar college.
Stav's art deals with the connection between spirituality, religion and art. He researches the archetypal, the archaeological and the prehistoric art. Through sculpture and painting Stav examines the ability to emphasize and bring back ancient foundations into today's world. Through research and experience of ancient texts, techniques and places he tries to understand, how will our present look as the past? How will we look as archaeology, as ancient to the far future?
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From Exterior Inwards and the Other Way Around: Idea, Reality and Imitation
by Stav Yosha
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Feb 20 - Mar 10, 2023
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
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