Creative Studio – Visual Arts

Aim

To enable students, future actors in industry, to learn to appreciate the shapes and forms produced by modern industrial societies, "the new scenarios peopled with objects that industry offers and that we travel through daily.” The Creative Studio – the Visual Arts is part of a continuity of a current in art which has taken industry as its principal source of reflection. Work is done from concepts, approaches and attitudes drawn from the repertoire of art today. It is a question of creating an artistic formula which questions a society of services, communication and information, of the cultural industry. This work of production is fuelled by an analysis of the work of artists of the last twenty years who, in their approach, question industry. The 1990’s saw a new generation of artists appear who, without repudiating the inheritance of the 1960!‘s and 1970’s, were able to break into new territory, multi-media artists who, in the wake of the approach of their predecessors produce installations, films, books, performances, photography. The studio will help students integrate contemporary mechanisms for creating forms into their aesthetic approach as a designer.

Programme

• Research on the work of artists of the last forty years on the theme for the semester. Visual presentation of the results of the research. 
• Writing a formal text analysing aesthetic qualities; oral presentation.
• Putting together a research folio in the form of large sheets displayed each week to present the development of work and enabling us to study together the creative process while dwelling on various elements (drawing, text, photography, etc.) 
• Using the research, designing a project. This stage is enriched with other elements: 3D model, video, computer, etc.) Great importance should be given to the economy of the project: feasibility within the context of the School, materials and skills available. Work also on the concept of the exhibition: integrating the spectator and relationship with place.
• Production in the presence of a personality from the art field: presentation of the work, text analyzing aesthetic qualities, large format research folio and project undertaken.

Each semester, a different theme is dealt with (themes already treated: "Crazy machines", "Forms under influence", "Business Fiction").