academic year 2010-2011 - Gerrit Rietveld Academie

APPENDIX
COMPETENCIES DEGREE COURSES VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN GERRIT RIETVELD
ACADEMY
VISUAL ARTS
The following degree courses fall under the Visual Arts course
program:
- Visual Arts
- Photography
- Audio visual
- Theatre Design
- Glass Design
- Ceramic Design
The competencies of a graduate student of the Visual Arts degree
course are:
1. Creative ability
The student is able to create authentic visual works of art that
emerge from his/her own artistic vision and makes a contribution to
the fulfilment of a personal ambition as a visual artist
the student:
- creates images that represent a personal vision or subject
matter in a to him or her specific fashion and communicates
this to the public
- converts his or her artistic vision into visual work using the
appropriate media
- transforms investigations, experiments and contemplations of
knowledge, intuitions, impressions and emotions into visual
work
- shows insight in the way in which images, forms, materials,
proportions and colors evoke emotions and communicate a certain
meaning
- demonstrates insight into the effects of the techniques used
- uses a method in which experiences with the chosen materials or
media can be used to make a better work of art
2. The ability of critical reflection
The student is able to observe his own work and that of others, to
analyze, interpret and evaluate it
the student:
- evaluates his/her own work on its artistic merits and the
effect it creates
- evaluates his/her own working method and oversees implications
of choices and decisions and can justify these afterwards
- will study in depth:
- art history and art- and artists' theories ( in relation to a
cultural and social context)
- different visions on and approaches of the visual arts as a
profession (art-, and artists' theories), from a historical
point of view as well as from a contemporary point of view
Students’ Charter Fine Arts and Design Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2010-2011
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