Information Package / Course Catalogue
Materials and Techniques in Contemporary Art
Course Code: RES510
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

Creating individual projects in line with their artistic approaches, researching and developing the interdisciplinary relationships of the projects, bringing them to the discussion environment presenting, applying with different materials and technologies, and providing support for expressing oneself in written and oral form.

Course Content

Understands the basic concepts and elements in the field of plastic arts at the upper level after undergraduate studies. Such as point, line, stain, form, light-shadow, color, texture, direction, size and spacing. Can draw the object he sees, divide it into pieces and reorganize it within the framework of application principles such as expression elements, contrast-appropriateness, symmetry and repetition, It includes being able to comprehend and apply the grammar of plastic arts with its variations in experimental work.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Defines the elements and principles that make up the language of Plastic Arts and makes applications within this framework.
2.By selecting materials suitable for the purpose, they can use and present them in a new integrity.
3.Have basic material knowledge and technical skills.
4.Can act with disciplined work habits and awareness of duty and responsibility.
5.Can produce sketches and solutions for the given problem. It may cause problems.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Faruk ATALEYER, Basic Art Elements, Anadolu University Publications, Eskişehir 1994
2.H.Yakup Öztuna, Görsel İletişimde Temel Tasar, Tibyan Yayıncılık İstanbul, 2007
3.Maurice de Sausmarez, Basic Desing. Ali Seyhan, Temel Tasarım, Baran Ofset, Ankara, 2005
4.Canan Deliduman Gence, Berna İstifoğlu Orhon, Temel Sanat Eğitimi, Erhun Yayınları Ankara, 2006
5.Rollo May, Yaratma Cesareti, Mets Yayınları, İstanbul, 2007
6.Rudolf Arnheim, Görsel Düşünme, Çev. Rahmi Öğdül, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul
7.Abdullah Demir, Temel Plastik Sanatlar Eğitimi, Anadolu Üniversitesi yayınları, Eskişehir, 1993
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Technical definitions of the painting
Week 2 - Theoretical
The students create a composition with their own visual world in their own unique language.
Week 3 - Theoretical
Pictorial structures and composition in the student's design
Week 4 - Theoretical
Keep working original
Week 5 - Theoretical
How to use visual expression elements and design elements to achieve the quality of pictorial plastic values? Designing a composition that shows what they can successfully make visible.
Week 6 - Theoretical
Keep working original
Week 7 - Theoretical
Keep up the original work. Evaluation Midterm exam
Week 8 - Theoretical
Interdisciplinary individual studies that will enable the student to produce studies on individual themes producing designs and projects
Week 9 - Theoretical
Interdisciplinary individual studies that will enable the student to produce studies on individual themes producing designs and projects
Week 10 - Theoretical
Interdisciplinary individual new project design. Application of a different material and technology
Week 11 - Theoretical
Continuing original interdisciplinary project
Week 12 - Theoretical
Free-themed and free-form courses are used to ensure that the student's personal tendencies and preferences become more original and competent. to create a new design in which he/she will be free to choose materials.
Week 13 - Theoretical
Free-themed and free-form courses are used to ensure that the student's personal tendencies and preferences become more original and competent. to create a new design in which he/she will be free to choose materials.
Week 14 - Theoretical
Free-themed and free-form courses are used to ensure that the student's personal tendencies and preferences become more original and competent. to create a new design in which he/she will be free to choose materials.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory89396
Lecture - Practice70321
Project3039
Midterm Examination1011
Final Examination1011
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)128
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
5
4
5
4
4
4
5
4
4
5
4
5
4
OÇ-2
4
5
4
5
4
4
4
5
5
5
5
5
4
OÇ-3
4
5
4
5
4
4
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
OÇ-4
5
4
5
4
5
4
5
4
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-5
5
4
5
5
5
5
4
5
4
5
5
5
5
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026