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Drawing and Graphic Art
Profile of Studies
The term “drawing” underwent a fundamental transformation in the last century. Art movements like Surrealism and Dada initiated intense experimentation with unaccustomed drawing media and backgrounds. Drawing’s often subordinate role, for example as studies or sketches for painting, was thereby questioned and the possibility of this medium’s equal status with the established forms of artistic expression (like painting) was suggested.
This development also continued later, for example in Concept and Minimal Art. The simultaneous appearance of the New Media from the early 1960s to the present made the realization of drawing visible in these new media contexts, including as the documentation of diverse draftsmanlike expressions. A wide range of drawing materials was thereby used. More and more frequently, real space (including landscape as space) and virtual space replaces the sheet of paper.
Along with instructing traditional drawing methods and printing techniques (especially intaglio and raised block), the area of Free Drawing and Printmaking also promotes experimentation. This is supported by the projects especially created to this end (the event series “Drawing in Context” and “Drawing after Nature and its Depiction”) and by theoretical exploration of their respective themes. The basis of this instruction model, of course, remains the students’ self-directed, intense artistic practice.
Apart from the independent solo and group works, an interdisciplinary exchange with other areas of study is a component of the course of learning, as is the students’ participation in the current discourse on art on visits to exhibitions.
The term “drawing” underwent a fundamental transformation in the last century. Art movements like Surrealism and Dada initiated intense experimentation with unaccustomed drawing media and backgrounds. Drawing’s often subordinate role, for example as studies or sketches for painting, was thereby questioned and the possibility of this medium’s equal status with the established forms of artistic expression (like painting) was suggested.
This development also continued later, for example in Concept and Minimal Art. The simultaneous appearance of the New Media from the early 1960s to the present made the realization of drawing visible in these new media contexts, including as the documentation of diverse draftsmanlike expressions. A wide range of drawing materials was thereby used. More and more frequently, real space (including landscape as space) and virtual space replaces the sheet of paper.
Along with instructing traditional drawing methods and printing techniques (especially intaglio and raised block), the area of Free Drawing and Printmaking also promotes experimentation. This is supported by the projects especially created to this end (the event series “Drawing in Context” and “Drawing after Nature and its Depiction”) and by theoretical exploration of their respective themes. The basis of this instruction model, of course, remains the students’ self-directed, intense artistic practice.
Apart from the independent solo and group works, an interdisciplinary exchange with other areas of study is a component of the course of learning, as is the students’ participation in the current discourse on art on visits to exhibitions.