2013-14 Fall
(HART 1001)
2 Credits | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
Course Description
This is an experiential course designed to engage students in exploring arts and their own creative abilities through a series of lectures/seminars on arts and creativity, art tutorials and enrichment activities. Students will have the opportunity to create their own artworks in different media.
Remarks
Tutorial Classes:
1. Oil Pastel Painting
2. Ceramics: Tea Ware
3. Fashion Design Drawing
Enrichment Activities:
Students need to attend at least TWO EAs. Failure to participate in EAs will lead to deduction of scores from overall assessment (shortage of one EA: -5%; two EAs: -10%). Details and registration procedure will be announced in due course.
- Understand the theory of creativity and the creative process in relation to visual arts
- Demonstrate the competency at fundamental level of a practical creative skill as defined by the instructor of separate art tutorials
- Apply artistic skills to generate original artworks and communicate visually
- Be exposed to different types of artworks, and to the environment in which artworks are produced and marketed
- Demonstrate reflective ability in the understanding and appreciation of artworks
Lesson 1: Introduction to the Theory of Creativity
Lesson 2: Essence of Creativity from Art Historical Perspective
Lesson 3: Creativity in Contemporary Art
Lesson 4: Creativity from the Socio‐cultural Perspective
Lesson 5: Guest Lecture 1: Fragility and Durability, Memory and Loss ‐ Porcelain Installation by Sara Tse
Lesson 6: Guest Lecture 2: Designing Experience by Peter Benz
Lesson 7: Guest Lecture 3: Conceptualization of Artworks by Michelle Fung
Lesson 8: Guest Lecture 4: Minimalism in Art and Design by Cedric van Eenoo
Lesson 9: Guest Lecture 5: Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway – Works by Cornelia Erdmann
Lesson 10: Course Review
In addition to the lectures, students will need to join one of the three art tutorial on hands-on practice of oil pastel painting, ceramics or fashion design drawing each week.
- Dacey, John S. Fundamentals of Creative Thinking. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1989
- Florida, Richard. Cities and the Creative Class. New York: Routledge, c2005
- Pfenninger, Karl H. & Shubik, Valerie R. The Origins of Creativity. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
Internet & Media Resources
- Adair, John Eric. The Art of Creative Thinking: How to be Innovative and Develop Great Ideas.
- London; Philadelphia: Kogan Page, 2007
- Joe Lau & Jonathan Chan. Critical Thinking Web, Module: Creative Thinking
- http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/creative/
- Maeda, John. Talk at MaD Asia 2010, 創新新定義：創新=IDEA (Part 1 & Part 2), YouTube video
Enrolment Details
Course Registration : 04-04 Oct 2024Add/Drop : 04-04 Oct 2024
Instructor
Anna KWONG
Assessment
| Written Assignment | 30% |
| Artwork (half-term submission) | 20% |
| Overall Performance in art tutorial | 30% |
| Learning Portfolio | 20% |