Painting 2: Exploring Concepts

Core Requirement for BA Hons Painting
Elective Option for BA Hons Creative Arts*

This second level OCA course Exploring Concepts is the equivalent to participating at second year degree level of a Fine Art course and completing half a year of study. This course is recommended for those who take their artistic development seriously, and have a strong desire to improve their results. The course provides a framework that will challenge even an experienced artist. However, it also provides the flexibility for the less experienced to experiment and grow, and a practice a breadth of techniques and approaches to painting.

Throughout this course you will work through a range of projects and explore new approaches to artistic concepts. The course will push you to consider your artistic strengths and preferences, and requires you to trial a wide range of perspectives on art: from the very precise and detailed, through realistic figurative painting, and then the exploration of themes such as landscape and the figure and finally to exploring seminal 20th movements in art, that challenged the traditional conceptual basis of art from the Renaissance onwards.