Concept Development Course October - November 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
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