Venice Across its Image: syllabus
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We will work from the text “The invisible cities” of the Italian writer Italo Calvino, who wrote in this book about Venice like the ideal city, through the descriptions of other cities that had visited Marco Polo.
We will create our own imagery city. We will work from the system of axonometric perspective one, introducing in this way the systems of representation that have been used along the art history. As artistic referents, we will visualize the work of Escher, De Chirico, among other proposals.
We will carry out a sequence of natural drawing from the direct observation of the city. For making it, we will study the conical perspective, which comes from the Renaissance to give us a vision in order to represent the space as human percept it.
From our personal experience of Venice, we will construct pictorially a subjective image of the city, through the revision of memories, traces, pictures that we will have accumulated during our stage in the city.
This work could be done through painting, collage, photography, drawing, or a mixture of these disciplines.
We will see the pictorial proposals of Guillermo Kuitca, Juan Uslé, David Hockney, among others, as artistic referents.
