Academy of Technical and
Art Applied Studies Belgrade

Art Nude Course code: AKT 116012 | 6 ECTS credits

Basic information
Level of Studies: Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study: 1
Semester: 2
Requirements: Passing the course in Drawing and Painting
Goal: Introducing the students to the phenomenon of the human figure from an artistic perspective, its proportions, basic elements of plastic anatomy and the techniques to transfer it on paper; mastering the croquis and the nude study using different artistic techniques and materials.
Outcome: Upon passing the exam, the students will be able to: perceive and estimate the proportions and movements of a human figure and transfer them to paper, providing a convincing rendition of it by using different drawing and painting techniques, studies, paintings and croquis.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
  1. Natural canons of the human body. Elements of plastic anatomy. The foot.
  2. Elements of plastic anatomy. Portrait. Study.
  3. The drawing as a transposition of the model. Movement. Contrapposto.
  4. Study of a human figure and croquis.
  5. Two-dimensional and plastic depiction of the nude.
  6. Art nude in photography.
  7. Art nude in the history of art.
  8. Different approaches to the model as a source of inspiration.
  9. The art nude and the portrait from Pompey to Cézanne, Van Gogh and Matisse
  10. The relationship between the figure and the clothing (draping).
  11. The art nude in space and reverse perspective.
  12. The image as the transposition of the model.
  13. Map forming and analysis of the works.
  14. Analysis and selection of works.
  15. Analysis and selection of works.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
  1. Study of the human figure; croquis; tonality; painting; map forming and work analysis.
Textbooks and References
  1. Gaberc Rudolf, Plastična anatomija čoveka, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, Beograd 1985.
  2. Thomson Arthur, A handbook of anatomi for art students, Dover Publications, Jnc. New York 1964.
  3. Schider Fritz, An atlas of anatomy for artists, Dover Publications, 1957.
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures: 2
Practical classes: 4
Other types of classes: 0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
Points
activities during lectures
0
activities on practial excersises
0
seminary work
0
colloquium
0
Final exam
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Written exam
0
Oral exam
0