Concept Development Course October - November 2024

€240.00
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Learn how to communicate with your art!

Create meaningful art that is unique to you. Uncover the message you want to convey and learn how to make it shine through your work.

The course is 6 sessions of 2 hours every Monday at Art Space Starting the 14.10.2024

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Learn how to communicate with your art!

Create meaningful art that is unique to you. Uncover the message you want to convey and learn how to make it shine through your work.

The course is 6 sessions of 2 hours every Monday at Art Space Starting the 14.10.2024

Learn how to communicate with your art!

Create meaningful art that is unique to you. Uncover the message you want to convey and learn how to make it shine through your work.

The course is 6 sessions of 2 hours every Monday at Art Space Starting the 14.10.2024


Course Program

Lesson 1: Create a workbook

In this lesson we will explore how to start gathering visual inspiration and do experimental play in an artist workbook.

  • Learn how to do art research

  • Set your visual intentions

  • Brain Storming and mind mapping

  • Play!!

Lesson 2: Documenting life

We will look at the anthropology (objects, habits, life events, beliefs or dreams) of our own lives as a starting point for making art.

  • Me and my objects, idiosyncrasies, obsessions, habits, rituals and life changing events

  • Documentation in art

  • Document your personal objects, habits, a life events, beliefs, or dreams. Draw, record, or describe them in writing from a few different angles.

Lesson 3: Making Strange 

Think outside the box by doing free association exercises.

  • Use different strategies for a fresh perspective.

  • Collage images or objects together

  • Decontextualize/Recontextualize

  • Play with scale or opposites

Lesson 4: Juxtaposition: Visual similes between ideas objects, people or images

Make visual comparisons to highlight a discrepancy or show similarities

  • Create comparisons.

  • Emphasize opposites

  • Visual and written poetry

  • Map/grid/archive

  • Visual and conceptual tension. Outward and inward

Lesson 5: Symbolism

Learn about symbolic elements in artworks by the masters and create your own visual symbols for your art

  • symbolism in art

  • Colour symbolism

  • Create your own symbols

  • Draw or paint and describe them in writing

Lesson 6: Tell a story

We will look at the basics elements of stories and using the visual explorations we have done so far, develop a strong cohesive plot that will be the basis of your body or artworks and artist statement

  • Basic story structures

  • Archetypes

  • Mythology and folk legend

  • Stories from lived experience

  • Dreams/aspirations/fears

  • The stories of others

Course Schedule

14th of October 2024 18:30 - 20:30

21st of October 2024 18:30 - 20:30

28th of October 2024 18:30 - 20:30

4th of November 2024 18:30 - 20:30

11th of November 2024 18:30 - 20:30

18th of November 2024 18:30 - 20:30

Course Location

Art Space: 421 Rue de Neudorf, 2220 Neudorf-Weimershof Luxembourg