DEPARTMENT OF PICTORIAL ART
Class 16
1st academic year - 2010-2011
Please note that unless otherwise stated, all courses are held in Danish.
Name of the course: Introduction
Name of the course: F-01 Documentation
Name of the course: K1-01 Historical painting techniques
Learning outcomes: Basic knowledge of the materials and techniques applied in panel painting and polychrome sculpture, and the appropriate terminology. Participants are expected to be able to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in relation to conservation and restoration.
Content: Reconstructions of historical grounds in painting on wooden supports, medieval gilding techniques and structures of paint layers, with reference to historical written sources (12th-14th centuries).
Teaching methods: Practical exercises, lectures on materials of medieval painting and art history.
Lecturers: Beate Knuth Federspiel and Elisabeth Kofod-Hansen
Place: Department of Pictorial Art and auditorium M
Time: Weeks 37, 38, 39, 45, 46
Duration: 60 hours
ECTS: 6
Name of the course: K1-02 Photographic documentation
Learning outcomes: General and basic knowledge of photography and photographic documentation. Also the ability to apply photographic documentation in practice.
Content: The theory behind photographic documentation, analog as well as digital, with emphasis on digital equipment available at the
Teaching methods: Lectures, demonstrations and practical exercises
Lecturer:
Place: Department of Pictorial Art, studio, darkrooms and image editing room
Time: Week 40, 41
Duration: 30 hours
ECTS: 3.5
Name of the course: F-02 Chemistry I
Name of the course: K1-03 Introduction to the history of art and styles of the West (with the Department of Monumental Art)
Learning outcomes: Basic knowledge of art history as a discipline and ability to identify and describe characteristics of styles using the appropriate terminology.
Content: Presentation of the scope and methods of the discipline as well as a survey of the development of styles in architecture and the pictorial arts.
Teaching methods: Lectures
Lecturer:
Place: Auditorium M
Time: Week 40, 41, 43, 46, 47, 48
Duration: 18 hours
ECTS: 2
Name of the course: K1-04 Painting on wood: Visual analysis, documentation
Learning outcomes: General introduction to visual analysis of painted wood and the ability to perform and document such analyses as preparation for a proposal for conservation.
Content: Visual analysis of painted wood to describe materials, condition, damage and so forth, as well as documentation of the results of the examination.
Teaching methods: Lectures and practical exercises
Lecturer: Pernille Bronée
Place: Department of Pictorial Art
Time: Week 43
Duration: 12 hours
ECTS: 1.5
Name of the course: K1-05 Painting on wood: Paint cross-sections
Learning outcomes: Basic knowledge of and ability to carry out, examine and document paint cross-sections.
Content: Introduction to preparation and analysis of microscopic cross-sections of paint samples from various painted objects.
Teaching method: Lectures and practical exercises
Lecturers: Head of section at the
Place: Department of Pictorial Art, MN-laboratory, microscope room
Time: Week 44
Duration: 12 hours
ECTS: 1.5
Name of the course: K1-06 Painting on wood: Wood, species and constructions
Learning outcomes: Basic knowledge of wood as a material, its properties and commonly used methods of construction and the ability to identify these.
Content: Description of the structure of wood, applied tools and traditional animal glues
Teaching methods: Lectures and practical exercises
Lecturers: To be announced
Place: Department of Pictorial Art, microscope room and to be announced
Time: Week 47 and 48
Duration: 20 hours
ECTS: 2
Name of the course: K2-07 Painting on wood: Photographic documentation and X-ray
Learning outcomes: The ability to carry out photographic documentation and assess x-radiographs.
Content: Introduction to photographic techniques as well as the theory and interpretation of x-radiographs.
Teaching method: Lectures and practical exercises
Lecturers: Pernille Bronée, Mogens S. Koch, Mikkel Scharff
Place: Department of Pictorial Art, X-ray room, studio, image editing room
Time: Week 4 and 5
Duration: 19 hours
ECTS: 2
Name of the course: K2-08 Pigments and dyes
Learning outcomes: Fundamental knowledge of the classical pigments and dyes, their history, chemical structure and physical-chemical properties. Also competence to perform a chemical analysis and to identify pigments.
Content: An examination of a selection of classical pigments and dyes which have been used for cave paintings, wall paintings, painting on wood and canvas, frescoes and illuminations. Practical laboratory work with chemical analysis and identification of pigments.
Teaching methods: Lectures and practical exercises
Lecturer:
Place: Laboratory auditorium and chemistry laboratory
Time: Week 6
Duration: 27 hours
ECTS: 3
Name of the course: F-03 Polymer chemistry
Name of the course: K2-09 Painting on wood: Conservation
Learning outcomes: Basic knowledge of the materials and methods applied in conservation of typical damages in paint-layers on wood. Ability to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in relation to conservation of damaged/flaking paint-layers on wood.
Content: Examination and description of the objects, proposal for the conservation measures, treatment and documentation of the conservation carried out using knowledge and skills acquired in other courses.
Teaching methods: Practical exercises in conservation executed on polychrome sculptures and inventory, supplemented with lectures in art history and visits to museums and conservation workshops
Lecturers: Pernille Bronée and Elisabeth Kofod-Hansen
Place: Department of Pictorial Art and to be announced
Time: Weeks 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 20
Duration: 96 hours
ECTS: 10
Name of the course: F-04 Preventive conservation