Huangyi RCA has always been one of the British art schools that many master art students aspire to. Huangyi ranks first in the UK in terms of pure art, product design, fashion jewelry and clothing. It can be said that Huangyi is a magical art school. In this year's Natural Light, many art students have also applied to the Royal Academy of Arts. So what's the secret of applying for Huangyi's collection of works? This has always been what we are eager to know. Today, we will analyze what kind of works collection can be applied to Huangyi by applying for Huangyi Painting with installation works collection.

At this year's graduation exhibition of Natural Light "City Memory Art Scene", there are a bunch of transparent balloons of different sizes, which almost cover every corner of Chaoyang Joy City Wutai Little Red Book, Public Comments, Weibo It has the highest rate of appearance, and is also the "single product" of online celebrities with the most group photos.

Careful students may have discovered that these balloons are not ordinary balloons. Each balloon is filled with words that have been redesigned and spliced, such as "cheat you", "I want to lose weight", "ha ha", just like not just a kind smile, but also a kind goodbye. These phrases most often appear in our chat dialog box It is designed to interpret the hidden meaning in the contemporary context.

And the creator of this set of devices

It is our protagonist today, Wang!

In natural light four For months, I devoted myself to the collection of works and experienced countless bottleneck periods fifteen Min Tutorial, also felt continuous three Studio Work has its own unique creative ideas, from scattered works and ignorance of pure art to repeated creation and modification.

Wang has experienced the process of the collection of works from scratch and the inspiration logic from chaos to power. These wonderful works have also brought Wang students the offers of Huangyi RCA and UaL Chelsea.

Wang graduated from Beijing Normal University

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Summary of Design Training of Huangyi Works Collection

Research in advance and do not fix calibration blindly

Solid professional skills and ideas

But lack of logic and coherence of expression

Wang studied in Beijing Normal University, majoring in oil painting. After communicating with natural light consultant teachers and professional teachers respectively, we found the characteristics of Wang. During his college years, Wang began to prepare College and professional research has been done in advance Compared with many art schools, they did not pursue famous schools stubbornly, but Comprehensive consideration according to the original professional situation and preferences And initially identified the school that he wants to apply for - UaL Chelsea（ Chelsea School of Art and Design, London University of the Arts ）。 However, Wang still hesitated about his major, just decided on the general direction and still wanted to learn the major in Fine Art, but the specific professional direction was not determined.

Wang not only did research in school selection, but also did a lot of research in selecting institutions Comparison of art study institutions Every family visited, communicated with consultants and professional teachers, and finally determined to be in natural light.

Wang's works were exhibited in the graduation exhibition of natural light

The teacher of the collection had a profound exchange with Wang on professional cognition, employment market, creative concepts and ideas. At this time, we also found an important reason why Wang could not determine the specific majors he applied for. Like most domestic students, Wang The understanding of this major is still fragmented In fact, this has a lot to do with the domestic teaching model. The theme of the works collection is often directly provided by the teacher. Students rarely have the opportunity to complete completely free ideas and creations, and rarely have the opportunity to develop their own understanding of the profession.

Therefore, Wang has only a broad interpretation of both the pure art major and the original professional oil painting, Lack of unique self-awareness and systematic professional understanding. This is also reflected in the works initially displayed by Wang. Most of her works are scattered single works, and the form is more important than painting techniques, rather than the presentation of complete conceptual themes or project forms.

Some Works of Wang's Collected Works

However, during the exchange of works between the teacher and Wang, the professional teacher found that Wang actually It's not that you don't have your own ideas or creativity She has many ideas on some concepts and topics, especially some needs Display in combination with environmental space Wang also showed great interest in creativity. However, due to the lack of systematic understanding of the profession, there is a slight lack of expression in the form of works, and I do not know how to express them.

So far, we can take a look at Wang's comprehensive situation before starting the portfolio course: the target college has been identified, the major has been initially defined, the professional skills are solid, and there are some ideas of his own, but limited by the lack of deep understanding of the major, so there is a slight lack of logic in expression and coherence in creation.

Some Works of Wang's Collected Works

Collection guidance and experimental exploration

When encountering bottlenecks, use "guidance" as a guide

Tutorial with 15min experience

Also experienced 3 days of Studio Work

The teacher of natural light has had a more detailed understanding of Wang Students apply for master's degree. The focus of work collection investigation in the master's stage is different from that in the undergraduate stage. Most colleges and universities pay more attention to students' ideas and expressions. The work collection can even be "unfinished", but the master's application is not good. The work collection should not only investigate students' ideas and expressions, but also see that you are more professional, More profound thinking.

For Wang, what she lacks is to show her professionalism, Inspiration and concept are not the only way, but also the realization of ideas This is the key, so the portfolio courses for Wang students are mainly focused on the improvement of professional expression and thinking logic. These courses need not only highly professional teaching from teachers, but also 100% trust from students. Especially in the experimental exploration stage, a lot of Brainstorm and Thinking divergence training 。

stay Portfolio training In the course, professional teachers always insist Do not give conclusions and methods directly , but with“ guide ”Let Wang carry out a series of research and experiment.

Guidance is the most common teaching concept of overseas colleges and universities. To enable Wang students to truly have the ability of independent creation, it is necessary to break the original fixed thinking with the real teaching concept of overseas art colleges and universities.

For example, the series of works we saw at the beginning of today's article use balloons and deformed characters as the creation media. During the creation of this work, Wang experienced primary research (Preliminary research), secondary research (Second survey), Experimental inquiry And so on.

In the part of character creation, that is, the deformed characters we see. first, Professional teachers inspire ideas , led Wang to start from reading a large number of documents, study the vocabulary, language habits, and language development process that people use most often, and understand people's understanding of language expression around the world. Only when we understand the true meaning of language can we study and discuss language as the theme.

Wang students' experimental exploration, project creation

Later, based on the preliminary understanding, we conducted more in-depth research, conducted questionnaires, communicated with different people, observed the language habits of different characters, and studied the reasons for these habits.

In this process, Wang found that language, as a major tool for interpersonal communication, has a special status, but some defects brought by life or human itself can not be remedied by language. Therefore, based on such a theme, it is far from enough to simply use painting to create and express.

When encountering bottlenecks, they need to be solved. Under the teacher's step-by-step "guidance", Wang also found a more appropriate expression form: font deformation+art installation, Combined with the space device that I have always been interested in, let the idea extend from two-dimensional plane painting to space This form is also consistent with Wang's creative theme. The huge environmental form gives more space to language, and the "fictional" and artificial nature of language becomes more obvious.

However, it is not easy to break through professional restrictions and express across disciplines. Therefore, professional teachers first told Wang students Supplement the knowledge and theory of space art and installation art As a basis, Wang was then guided to carry out repeated experimental exploration in three professional fields Find the intersection point that best suits the theme of your work . Carefully record the production process and failure cases, repeatedly overturn the experimental exploration, and constantly redefine the creation.

Wang is in the process of creating the project

When preparing the art study abroad collection, it is inevitable to encounter bottlenecks and entanglements. Whenever they encounter bottlenecks, professional teachers will have a brief meeting with Wang Tutorial Every 15-20 minutes, review the creation process again, sort out the ideas, and then start the collection.

Tutorial is the most common teaching mode in overseas universities. Students can reorganize their creative ideas through one-to-one or one to many discussions with their tutors to guide students to get more inspiration.

There are short Tutorial courses and long courses Studio Work Professional teachers and Wang students went into the classroom together to practice constantly, repeatedly make, modify, and use what materials to express the language deformation? What kind of material can reflect the "fiction" of language? Can the possibility of expression be expanded through the construction of artificial devices?

Works of Wang's Collected Works

In the continuous communication and exploration with teachers, Wang boldly tried a lot of materials, but Wang did not use them blindly, but selectively, The need for theme and creative expression was clarified before further selection of materials was started Finally, we decided to use this transparent balloon as the creative medium, which is restricted by its own weight and cannot fly freely. When deformed fonts are filled into these transparent but unable to fly balloons, the expression of language seems to be limited, and the defects related to language are also magnified indefinitely.

It is with such materials that the ideas of Wang's works can be fully displayed, and also with the help of huge space and devices, the theme of the works can be more plump, which can arouse people's high curiosity.

Wang's works at the graduation exhibition themed by natural light

In the process of the whole work collection, whether it is research, tutorial, or studio work, art teacher Always insist on not providing Wang with a way to express concepts directly , or clearly tell her what kind of method is more suitable. Instead, we use "guidance" to let Wang students Independent thinking In class, we come prepared to give solutions and then discuss them. This is not cramming teaching.

Precise and in-depth research has laid an accurate direction for subsequent creation, deepened Wang's understanding of the theme, but also made Wang realize that there is only one form of painting, which will limit his own ideas and expression. Professional teachers constantly "guide" and inspire Wang students Integrate into the installation and space art you are interested in , with Interdisciplinary To show your ideas.

Collection preparation process

Not soft, but never blind

Effort and trust, bringing more than expected results

The time and energy paid determine the final harvest

Finally, let's review Wang's entire work collection preparation process, learn from the key points, and see the parts that are worth learning:

　　 01. Early research

　　 Choose schools and majors in the early stage, and do more research Don't stubbornly pursue the title of famous school. Choose the best one according to your own situation and professional needs. This applies not only to the selection of schools and majors, but also to the selection of institutions;

　　 02. Indicate professional needs

At the beginning of the course, we communicated with the teacher carefully, Let professional teachers understand their own needs and ideas, and don't be afraid to expose their professional disadvantages, Tell the teachers their own interests and professional situation, so that teaching can be carried out according to different people;

　　 03. Trust professional teachers

In the course of the portfolio, Wang was very Trusted professional teachers , actively cooperate with the teaching arrangement of professional teachers, so teachers can inspire Wang students to brainstorm, experiment and explore, and repeatedly research in the form of guiding teaching from overseas colleges and universities;

Research is really important! Early accurate and profound research can help us save a lot of unnecessary trouble. Just like Wang, it is because of many early research that we can clearly understand the creation needs of our own works - we need to use space art and installation to express the theme of our works across disciplines;

　　 04. Don't pay blindly

　　 Don't be soft on time, energy, courses and materials, but don't be blind Through the exploration and in-depth understanding of various materials, Wang finally found an expression medium that best fits the theme of his works, and thus became a highlight of his works; The time and energy paid without hesitation, combined with the teacher's diversified curriculum, also enabled Wang students to constantly re understand the theme from multiple angles and levels, and also constantly deepen the definition of the theme.

Looking closely at Wang's collection of works, it is not difficult to find that every step of hard work is not empty, especially the full cooperation and mutual trust between the curriculum and teachers, not to mention the random start, from the initial selection of the school to the final offer of Huangyi and Lunyi, In this way, the accumulation of each step enabled Wang students to finally achieve a better result than expected.

At the end of the 2019 application season, many students in Natural Light began to receive offers. This week, we have two students who have received Huangyi RCA offers. We hope that these new offers and Wang students' portfolio cases can become the driving force and energy for everyone's application. We should believe that you will gain from every step of effort.

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