Subject: Aesthetics of Visual Communications
(09 -
IGA031) Basic Information
Course specification
Course is active from 01.10.2010.. Precondition courses
Enabling students to appreciate, create and creatively use value judgment of the sentiment in all forms of visual communications, and especially in the media such as: sound, video/movie, multimedia, internet and virtual reality. Development of the skills for forming the judgment of aesthetic evaluation of visual impression through empathy process about categories such as: harmony, wholeness, beauty, sublimity, gracefulness, amusement… To apply acquired knowledge in the further educational process as well as in the future professional work. Concept, definition and importance of aesthetics in visual communications; factors of sentiment judgment: objective and subjective, conscious and unconscious; aesthetic phenomena of bad taste: kitsch, camp and trash; universal principles of aesthetics of visual communications: rational-cognitive and principles of unconscious factors; Rationally cognitive: mathematical and geometric based on the golden section, geometric transformations etc. Principles of unconscious factors: archetypes, gestalt, immersion, 3D illusions… Aesthetics of graphics: technical aspects, the elements (line, figure, form, movement, texture and color) and principles (projection, balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis and unity) of graphic expression; aesthetic characteristics and theories of color perceptions; types of projections and their use in visual aesthetics. Lectures, Computer Practice. Consultations.
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