Between October 2021 and June 2022 the Institute of Art History of the University of Warsaw together with the Charles University in Prague and the University of Milan implemented – as part of the 4EU + Alliance – the one-year educational module “Visual Literacy: Understanding Images across Europe – Past and Present”. The classes conducted within the framework of the module were taught by lecturers from three partner universities.
The second edition of the module will be conducted in 2022/2023 in the collaboration with
- Davide Colombo, PhD (University of Milan)
- Jan Dienstbier, PhD (Charles University)
- Vendula Fremlová, PhD (Charles University)
- Pavla Gajdošíková, PhD (Charles University)
- Giulia Kimberly Colombo, PhD Candidate (University of Milan)
- Karolina Mroziewicz, PhD (University of Warsaw, project coordinator)
- Zuzanna Sarnecka, PhD (University of Warsaw)
- Joanna Smalcerz, PhD (University of Warsaw)
- prof. Giorgio Zanchetti, PhD (University of Milan)
The module consists of an online conversatory class, an online tutorial and three in-person two-day workshops, which were held in Milan (January 2023), Prague (March 2023) and Warsaw (June 2023).
Students can choose between five tutoring programs:
- Multiplied Images: Artistic Practices in the Twentieth Century. The aim of this tutorial, led by prof. Giorgio Zanchetti, Davide Colombo, PhD and Giulia Kimberly Colombo is to analyse different artistic practices in the twentieth century, which were based on appropriation, collage, photomontage, found footage and re-enactment. Heterogeneous and non-artistic images will be examined along with visual sources. The contamination of low and high models, as well as the circulation of contemporary art and artists’ iconic images in media and popular culture will also be addressed.
- Visual literacy: Between Educational, Artistic and Curatorial Approaches. This is a tutorial conducted by Vendula Fremlová, PhD and Pavla Gajdošíková, PhD, which will be focused on contemporary art, art education and curating as a form of dialogue and as a way of broadening critical thinking. The students will be researching the contemporary art field and analysing its tendencies, topics or “turns”. On this basis the students will try to develop their own curatorial project together with educational activities (art mediation). The students will be encouraged to their own artistic attempts to understand the attitude of an artist as well.
- Cinematic Cities: Reading Urban Spaces in Film, tutorial led by Joanna Smalcerz, PhD, focuses on the representation of urban spaces in film and explores the relationship between urban and cinematic identities of New York, Rome, Milan, Prague and Warsaw in the twentieth and twenty-first century. The aim is to develop visual literacy required to understand the complexities of filmic representation, as well as to investigate the dynamics of the mutually constitutive intertwinement of the city and film in modernity.
- Visualising Matter: The Visual literacy in Early Modern Europe. This tutorial, led by Zuzanna Sarnecka, PhD, will demonstrate the benefits of technical art history for the visual literacy in Early Modern Europe. The students will work with recipe books, artists’ manuals and inventories to visualise images (their colours, textures, forms etc.) from written descriptions. The course will introduce the significance of scientific investigations (including X-rays and XRF) in a connoisseurial approach to images and the role of memory as the repository of visual data. The students will also analyse travelers’ accounts to draw conclusions about the language of visual uncertainty and the description of unknown artefacts.
- Colours in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art: Experiments, Failures and Success Stories, a tutorial conducted by Karolina Mroziewicz, PhD and Jan Dienstbier, PhD will explore materiality, significance and functions of colour in 15th- and 16th-century works of art, mainly illuminated manuscrupts and early prints. The students will experiment with the process of colour printmaking, production of pigments and colourants as well as reflect on the conditions that made pre-modern images legible, meaningful and precious to their pre-modern beholders. They will also experience first hand the challenges and limitations of the reconstruction of the late medieval and early modern colour palette.
The presentation with practical information about the second edition of the project can be downloaded here.
The classes begin in November 2022.
Ostatnia aktualizacja 14/10/2022