Life Drawing: The Body (FINA10036)

Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)

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Overview

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Our changing notions of 'what it is to be human' affect how we represent ourselves.

This practice-based subject focuses on figurative drawing and is designed for students who have had little or no experience in visual art making. Students will be introduced to specialist drawing practices and 3D modeling through life drawing and related approaches to imaging the human form. The studio program will be delivered alongside formal lectures and seminars that will explore the nexus between theory and practice by critically examining the representation of the human figure in the context of significant visual art genres and pictorial convention. Projects will be set in both the theoretical and practical areas.

Intended learning outcomes

This subject aims to:

  • create a dialogue between the perceptual, the conceptual and theoretical;
  • enable students to develop and apply skills that can build a visual language around representations of the body;
  • provide an introduction to the knowledge and skills required to effectively represent the figure both from direct observation and through further studio based experimentation;
  • offer basic foundational knowledge and experience in key drawing and modeling practices and to direct these abilities toward outcomes of artistic conceptualisation, experiementation and expression.
  • explore and articulate the relationship between theory and practice as it relates to the subject material, by critically examining the representation of the human figure in the context of significant visual art genres and pictorial convention.

Generic skills

On completing this subject students will be able to:

• display an awareness of the graphic possibilities of a variety of concepts, materials and practices;

• exhibit evidence of skill development both pictorially and technically as a means of independent image making;

• indicate evidence of individual research in the relevant area of practice

• demonstrate capacities for artistic imagination, creativity, transformation and interpretation;

• demonstrate practical skills in respect of critical analysis, problem solving;

• demonstrate an open, independent and inquiring attitude towards contemporary cultural developments and new ideas.

Last updated: 4 April 2025

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites

None

Corequisites

None

Non-allowed subjects

None

Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)

The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.

Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home

Last updated: 4 April 2025

Assessment

Additional details

Folio: a comprehensive folio that includes completed work made for set exercises/projects, perceptually-based drawings, experimentation and related materials, that demonstrates an appropriate level of understanding, development and application of the knowledge, skills and conceptual areas addressed in the subject; during exam period (75%)

Written Component: 1000 word essay; week 11 (25%)

Ongoing feedback is provided to students through the subject’s duration via individual and group discussion. Additionally, a progress review will take place midway through the course, taking into account the following criteria: course engagement; work development; week 6 to 8.

Hurdle Requirement: Students must attend at least 80% of all scheduled classes for the folio and essay to be accepted for assessment purposes.

 

 

 

 

Last updated: 4 April 2025

Quotas apply to this subject

Dates & times

  • Semester 1
    Principal coordinatorLaura Woodward
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Southbank)
    Contact hours3 Hours per week
    Teaching period27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017
    Last self-enrol date10 March 2017
    Census date31 March 2017
    Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017
    Assessment period ends23 June 2017

    Semester 1 contact information

    Coordinator

    Dr Laura Woodward
    Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, VCA & MCM

    Contact

    For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:

    Contact Stop 1

    For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:

    Dr Laura Woodward

    lauraw@unimelb.edu.au

Time commitment details

10 Hours per Week

Additional delivery details

This subject has a quota of 126 students. Selection is automated and based on the order in which students enrol. Your enrolment in this subject guarantees a space unless you withdraw. Once the subject quota has been reached, all enrolled students will be contacted.

If the subject is full, spaces may become available in the future as others withdraw. The only way to check this is by attempting to enrol. Please note that there are no waiting lists for this subject.

As entry into this subject is based only on the order in which students enrol, special permission will not be offered to any students.

Last updated: 4 April 2025

Further information

Last updated: 4 April 2025