When it comes to copying, it must be familiar to all students who have been exposed to painting. For students studying art design, it is a link that "cannot escape". So, is the learning method of copying works suitable for the creation of works when overseas art colleges apply? Today, natural light will introduce to you, and you are preparing for the creation of art works collection, please collect them!

We must admit that Works Collection Basic Course During this period, copying is a very good way of learning. Through copying the master's sketches, sketches, oil paintings, watercolors, we can explore the basic knowledge of body structure, perspective principle, color matching, and light shadow relationship. Find your own problems in practice, and constantly correct them to improve.

In addition, a large number of exercises can also exercise students' hand eye coordination and contrast ability, quickly grasp the large size of objects in sketching, and get a picture with accurate large shape and harmonious color. In foreign art museums and museums, you can often see that many people, or people who set up easels or sit on the ground, copy masters' works in close proximity, and art museums and museums also encourage the audience to do so, so that people can study works more deeply in copying.

　　 So is this learning method of copying works also applicable to the creation of works when overseas art colleges apply? Let's first take a look at the requirements and preferences of art schools in various countries for the collection of works:

British and American countries pay attention to the display of the overall process of student portfolio projects, and need to see the inspiration source - propose topic selection - screening - sketch - research - deliberation - practice - finalization and other processes. The purpose is to examine students' creative thinking and logical thinking.

Australia and Canada emphasize the diversity of portfolio projects, including various art forms as far as possible, and value students' basic skills, practical ability, imagination, etc.

France and Italy, which most prefer pure art, do not require students to put in the production process, but all emphasize not to put in the copied works at the beginning of learning.

　　 Considering the requirements of the above collection of works, consider whether the collection of works can be copied? Or, whether the copied work can be put into the work collection. The answer is obvious, absolutely not applicable!

First of all, let's take an objective look at the current situation of the domestic art examination and art design majors. In fact, most of the students are learning the basic art painting course in a relatively "unified" mode. At this time, in the process of copying, due to lack of cognition, many problems surfaced. For example, some students just mechanically "copy and paste", He only imitated a large form, and neglected the most important step in copying: comparative thinking.

As we said earlier, copying is not just painting like a picture. It is learning to paint like every stroke of the master. In copying, the most important thing is actually comparative reflection. Skill comes from familiarity, learning from appreciation, and approval from evaluation. Instead of blindly copying this action, the copying that really makes people fruitful uses the brain, and the eyes and hands only assist the brain.

You may have seen the news of an oil painting village in China. There are more than 20000 painters in this village. Everyone can paint a picture of Van Gogh, Monet and Picasso in 20 minutes, and it can only be sold at the "cabbage price".

Then look at the students in the art examination mode. Most of their works are trying to cater to the style of the college. The most obvious is that various targeted studios, which are set up near Yangmei, are all in high gray, and the studios near Guomei offer bright color matching secrets. Finally, students lost their personal characteristics in their blind pursuit, bright colors became impetuous if they didn't draw well, and advanced grays became dull if they didn't draw well.

However, in the application for art study abroad, one of the key points of the review of the collection of works is the uniqueness of the student's collection of works. In the past admissions officer activities of natural light, many admissions officers' opinions on the collection of works are almost centered on "personal characteristics" and centered on creativity.

For art schools that train designers and artists, when enrolling students, they must want to see the uniqueness of students, their attitude to art, and even their charm beyond ability. The collection of works is the first card that the student presents to the admissions officer. The admissions officer very much hopes to see the students' interests, ideas, and what they like and are studying in the collection of works.

Secondly, most of the time, copying works is only suitable for early learning, so that students can master basic skills in copying, and the ultimate goal is to enable students to have the ability to create independently and self review.

In other words, we should know what kind of works are good and where they are good in the in-depth study of works. Then jump out and compare your own works, promote the basic ability of painting with critical thinking, and get new inspiration to create new things.

If we look back at overseas art schools, many of them also have basic painting courses, but they do not focus on copying. Overseas colleges and universities focus on students' self creation ability, so even basic painting classes will guide students to spread their own thoughts. With RISD Rhode Island School of Design Take the basic courses in the first year as an example. Some of them are drawing.

At RISD, students regard painting as an essential basic ability for art and design, and also as a way to explore a larger art world. The drawing course is completed in a very challenging studio. Here, painting is not just to draw on paper with a pen, but to study more possibilities of painting with more experimental properties, to observe things with imagination, and to stimulate more creativity.

In class, students cooperate closely in the form of groups and give feedback to each other while emphasizing rigorous critical research and independent learning. The purpose is to encourage students to explore and question others' creation, or support and encourage others' creation while showing their own works in this way. In this process, by discussing the inspiration and process of creation, the ability to express the thoughts and feelings in the works can also be exercised. This is a good start for students' thoughts and works of art.

　　 Natural Light has always recognized the teaching philosophy of overseas universities. In the upgraded product 4.0, we will bring comprehensive improvement to students in the mode of thinking+skills.

First of all, there are courses such as Western art history, Western philosophy, research methods of art creation, art criticism, and cultural comparison between East and West in the humanities and speculative lectures.

In these courses, students can obtain the improvement of aesthetic ability and critical ability, which will guide students to develop freely on the right road. At the same time, the learning of the course of writing and speculation will enable students to think about the theme in a multi-dimensional way and trigger more unique insights.

This year, Yi, a student in the Department of Natural Light Visual Design, found that the artist Klimt was very good at using regular geometric figures in the course of humanistic thinking, and the use of geometric figures in the collection of graphic design works can show a strong sense of design and decoration. In the collection of works, the project was completed by extracting elements such as patterns, colors and arrangement patterns from Klimt's gold foil series works, combining their own design and screen printing technology, and finally won the offer Grand Slam from six universities and a total of 1.3 million scholarships.

In the creative sketching class, students will practice their basic painting ability under the drawing learning mode of overseas colleges and universities.

Creative and observant painting means that the author expresses something with his own visual language after observing it. Different from ordinary sketching, creative observation painting combines the author's own "internal processing", including thinking, examining, researching, comparing, classifying, refining, etc. Through these personal observation processes, students will find the subtle differences between the same things, and show what they find under the surface in the form of art.

This course connects the teaching mode of overseas art colleges and universities. It is based on the observation method and teaching system of classical painting, combined with the experimental innovation spirit of modernist painting, and improved according to the needs and characteristics of each student.

The main goal of the course is to use painting as a tool to help students build their own observation ability and artistic thinking, and to have enough expression techniques to transform the images in the brain into pictures.

The course is completed in the studio mode, and students stimulate each other's creativity in the studio. At the same time, the teacher will also take into account the personal development of each student and give targeted advice and guidance.

Because each student pays attention to different points and expresses in different ways, the purpose of the course is also personalized and self oriented. The final output of the curriculum is not limited to "realism" and "standardization", but more to pursue personalized works after students' own absorption and digestion, which is the most important significance of observational painting in the curriculum system. The output of each student's work can also be directly put in the work collection and submitted as an observational painting.

Is portfolio copying applicable to portfolio creation when applying for overseas art schools? Copying can reflect the difference in the concept of art education both at home and abroad. Domestic art education tends to have a solid foundation, such as composition, perspective, large shape, color, etc., while natural light and overseas art schools focus more on the long-term art path and personality development of students after graduation and employment, As the support behind students, we will continue to optimize the most scientific education model according to the characteristics of students, provide more space for students to do truly valuable art and design.

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