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Interdisciplinarity in Colour Study: presentation of the graduate course Colour in Visual Arts and of student display poster

Colour, as one of the basic expressive means in visual arts, has been neglected for quite a long time as a topic of art-historical research. However, in recent years, it has been given more attention. Among other, publications of reputed art historians such as the major work Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (1993) of the British art historian, John Gage (1938 – 2012), contributed to the popularisation of this topic. In this standardised and indispensable source for all colour researchers, the author emphasised, in a synthesised way, numerous and diverse approaches to colour and theories of colours in the past, and its even more diverse application in visual arts. In the wish to sensitise future generations of graduated historians of art to the understanding of the phenomena of colour, an optional course Colour in Visual Arts was dedicated within the graduation study at the Department for Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb from the academic year 2010/2011. The emphasis in the curriculum was put on the role of various scientific disciplines in the overall understanding of colour, their impact on artistic creation and the importance of the history of art as a «unifying framework for research of colour in all its aspects». By using contemporary teaching aids – computers and corresponding software – students are encouraged to actively participate in the course by doing carefully prepared methodical exercises. The results of their group and individual research shall be presented at this symposium in the form of a display poster on the topic Interdisciplinarity in Colour Study. The poster, with the assistance of Josipa Alviž, course lecturer and junior research assistant, shall be designed and made by this year (2012/2013)course takers: Helena Anjoš, Mateja Babić, Paula Bučar, Bojana Jendrić, Nataša Klasnić, Ivana Lučan, Mirta Maltar, Ivan Oštarčević, Dimitrij Petrović, Terezija Pišković, Jana Plećaš, Petra Prgomet, Željka Špehar, Marta Tuta, Anja Vijatović and Nikolina Zanetti.

colour ; interdisciplinarity ; graduate study ; display poster

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