Module 4
12 Courses
Digital Arts Platform: iversity Institution: Technoplus Business Semnars Started: 04/11/2015 Finished: 06/07/2016 The Art of Photography Platform: Open2Study Institution: RMIT University Started: 05/01/2015 Finished: 03/02/2015 Drawing Foundations: Fundamentals Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 11/03/2018 Finished: 15/03/2018 Drawing Foundations: Figure Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 15/03/2018 Finished: 24/03/2018 Drawing Foundations: Light and Shadow Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 26/03/2018 Finished: 26/03/2018 Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 29/03/2018 Finished: 10/04/2018 Drawing 2-Point Perspective Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 01/04/2018 Finished: 05/04/2018 Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 10/04/2018 Finished: 18/04/2018 Painting and Developing a Composition Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 19/04/2018 Finished: 19/04/2018 Painting Foundations: Acrylic Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 19/04/2018 Finished: 18/05/2018 Painting Foundations: Light and the Landscape Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 18/05/2018 Finished: 07/06/2018 Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 11/06/2018 Finished: 25/07/2018
2 Books
Boundless Art History
How To Draw Author: Adrian Hill Publisher: Macmillan Published: 1969 Started: 12/02/2014 Finished: 03/03/2014
“The world of mechanism has alienated us from the wild beauty of the world about us. Such is the power of art, however, that it can endow even the trivialities and the mechanisms of our world with a pseudomystical fascination. Supposedly this enables our world to avoid the epithet of being caught in an imitative Classicism or in a faded Romanticism. The result is to challenge any traditional norms of beauty by a reversion to the wild simply through undisciplined turbulence, at times with an elaborate presentation of the trivial, or even with what is referred to as a personal statement.“
Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way Into The Future, 1999:54
Art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination towards producing original artifacts. I believe that an appreciation and understanding of art, whether wide-ranging or more niche-centric, is essential for any professional that has a strong focus on creative thinking and application.
Art was one of the subjects I (eventually) thrived in at school and I very nearly carried it over into my A-Levels, but I ultimately dropped it. My artistic flair and creative thinking definitely continued and was further nurtured in my writing, my filmmaking, my photography and my website building.
However, I always felt like art as a subject was a loose end I really wanted to get back to, not least because I wanted to teach myself how to paint properly. Then when I decided to make creative producing a concentration in my MTA Portfolio, it seemed only logical include creativity inspiring module on art.
I was keen to delve into the history of art as I wanted to be able to distinguish between all the different artistic styles and movements. Art History, an online textbook by Boundless, was hugely invaluable in teaching me the history of art from the first cave paintings all the way up to digital art of today.
I also greatly enjoyed the practical focused MOOCs on LinkedIn Learning, especially the painting ones, but I have yet to put paintbrush to canvas. It’s still on my to-do list and I will get round to it eventually.