Fine Arts Students Research Articles

Reading the library: Institution, archive and the future of a field

In my last years of teaching at the University of Leeds (2019-20), I invited all first-year Fine Art and Art History students to meet me in the circular Reading Room of University of Leeds Library. I felt that, for many students arriving at university, the space, form, function and use of a research, or even a reference, library might be inhibiting, alien at worst and certainly overwhelming. My aim was to get them inside, and to then explore the Library as an architectural-spatial text written with books ordered and spaced according to classification systems that already encode and pre-frame their fields of knowledge amidst other discrete fields. Moreover, my lectures to them would question the system of classifying art and its histories laid out for them in the library. I might indeed deeply challenge this ‘order of things’ (to quote Michel Foucault.)1

The Analysis of Fine Arts Students' Social Media Awareness Levels Related to Appearance

In this study, it is aimed to comparatively examine the social media usage habits and social media awareness levels related to appearance of the students studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Turkey. The study was conducted in accordance with comparative relational screening and correlational research designs. 203 students studying in the fine arts faculties of four different universities participated in the study. According to the research findings, it has been observed that a large proportion of the participants use 'Social networking sites (Facebook, Instagram, Myspace, Google plus, etc.)' and 'Photo sharing sites (Instagram, Flickr, etc.)'. However, the social media awareness levels of the participants studying at the Faculties of Fine Arts were found to be low. While the social media awareness levels of the participants about appearance did not differ according to gender, class and achievement status, significant differences were found according to the departments. Finally, a significant relationship was found between the social media awareness levels of the students of the Faculty of Fine Arts and the frequency of use of social media platforms.

Interpretation of Surrealism among University Fine Art Students - Analysis of Selected Surrealist Work by Fourth Year Students at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Surrealism, whether in drawing or painting, remains an engaging and fascinating Art style and continues to be of great influence in the way artists, including students of Art, perceive self-expression and generation of new meaning in their work. Surrealism is considered among the most influential artistic movements of the 20th Century. It started in the 1920s as a literary movement that eventually took on a visual dimension, its foundational principles have continued to influence the thought process and styles of many modern artists in the realm of self-expression. Though students at the University undertake drawing in the context of a number of units in their undergraduate programme, surrealism is introduced as a fourth-year unit since they are expected to have adequately mastered drawing and consolidated an expressive individual style over time. This study examines, through analysis of selected works, the extent to which students are able to, firstly, internalize the concept and visual tenets of surrealism such as distortion, abstraction, and juxtaposition of forms and apply these tenets in the composition of new artistic work of their own. Secondly, the study sought to determine whether their drawings demonstrated individual capacity for self-expression and the derivation of meaning that appealed to the audience. The students were introduced to surrealism through examination and discussion of examples of previous students’ surrealist work, analysis of the subject matter, the origination of ideas, and style of execution in pencil as a manipulative tool. The students were also introduced to rendering surrealist images from various sources into artistic compositions that are interpretable by the audience and, therefore, bear the ability to generate artistic meaning. This being a drawing unit and for the purpose of uniformity of medium, they were instructed to work in pencil on A3 drawing paper. They were expected to internalize each other’s work through class presentations and focused critiques. The students, subsequently, produced a large body of drawings that were sampled and selected in terms of artistic execution and/or display of a significant impetus for self-expression. They were ultimately expected to demonstrate the ability to interpret the meaning of imageries derived from the unconscious mind or whatever dreamlike sources they may have referenced. The work was analysed in accordance with the guidelines outlined in the analytical framework.

Increasing university students attitudes towards organ donation with peer learning approach

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a peer learning on attitudes to organ donation and the rate of obtaining a donor card in university students. 
 Method: This was a quasi-experimental study in a single group. Study was conducted between October-2017 and October-2019 from nursing (n=320) and the fine arts (n=160) students. Peer learning approach was applied as an intervention. 
 Results: There was a statistically significant difference in the nursing faculty students’ positive attitudes to organ donation after peer learning. Also, there was a statistically significant difference in the second-year nursing students’ negative attitudes to organ donation after peer learning. The difference in the number of the nursing students having a donor card after peer learning was highly significant. There was not a statistically significant difference in the fine art students’ positive attitudes to organ donation and having a donor card after peer learning.
 Conclusions: It is recommended that private and social issues such as organ donation be taught to students in the higher education curriculum with the peer learning approach.

CORRELATION BETWEEN SOCIAL FEEDBACK AND ARTISTIC MOTIVATION AMONG FINE ARTS STUDENTS

Art is an essential component of human life. It is a necessary discipline in the educational system of every society and is considered a professional field because it requires skills and mental capabilities to be presented as a concept. Most importantly, artistic concepts are created for evaluation. Hence, feedbacks are integral to creative art. The primary objective of the current study was to examine the artistic motivation of fine art students based on social feedback. One hundred and six (n = 106) students enrolled in fine and applied art departments in tertiary institutions in Kogi State, Nigeria, were employed as the studys participants. Data were collected using self-report measures. The simple linear regression analysis performed on the data established a positive correlation between social feedback and artistic motivation. The study concludes that social feedback is an essential component of artistic creativity.

Art Students: Do They Really Draw What They Know about the Inner Body?

The aim of the present study was to examine seven case studies and ascertain whether the imagos internalized by students of Fine Arts, a Young Person and an Elderly Person can be reworked, after the students have been submitted to a course in Anatomy. In the present study, we have combined two methods - gathering written responses and drawings - and examined what students know about the organs they drew and used a content analysis grid to evaluate the mental representation of the interior of the body of both profiles (Young Person and Elderly Person), before and after academic training (Anatomy classes). The preliminary data collected provided a prima facie scenario for the existence of at least one sequencial comulative progression in the development of the art students drawings. However further research is needed to establish the extent to which this finding might apply beyond the tasks assigned in the present protocol.

Drawing with my Students’ – Development of Clothed Life Drawings among University Fine Art Students. Analysis of Selected Drawings by Second Year Students at Kenyatta University

Students of Fine Art are introduced to drawing in their first year and human figure drawing in their second year. It is presumed that they have already had some element of earlier exposure in other levels of prior studies. The objective of human figure drawing or life drawing is to get the students to a level of applied skill where they can be able to draw and utilize their skill in other aspects of self-expression in other disciplines of Art. This is because life drawing is a fundamental requirement in all disciplines of art from basic sketching to detailed paintings. This paper examines selected work of students to determine the extent to which they are able to achieve this objective within the unit prescribed duration of one semester. The paper also seeks to determine whether the work produced meets the standard of drawing required at this level which then enables the students to subsequently embark on other units of drawing moving forward. This is critical since they are required to apply their life drawing skills in other units as a matter of routine individual expression. In this regard, if they are required to draw or paint an imaginative composition, they would be expected to depict human figures which not only fit within the composition and are well executed but also express the students’ ability to interpret themes and formulate subject matter. For the purpose of these exercises and in order to focus solely on the objectives of human figure composition and detailed development, the students were confined to the use of pencil for the layout, shading and detailing of their work. This is because pencil provides a wide range of manoeuvre for this kind of exercise. In this series of drawings, the students used one particular female model which provided them with the opportunity to visually interact with the individual model and be able to study and observe how the life model adjusts to various poses. This was designed to help draw inspiration as well as make the drawing exercises methodical, enjoyable and purposeful.

Effects of Computerized Simulation, Drill and Practice, and Tutorial Instructional Packages on Learning Outcomes of Fine-Arts Students in Nigerian Junior Secondary Schools

It is the desire of every teacher to ensure effective and quality education performance. Fine-Arts is a practical oriented subject. In Nigeria, reports and findings shows that students are deficient in the area of practical especially graphics. Also, the attitudes of some parents towards the subject influence the choice of the subject. The aim of the study was to develop computerized simulation, Tutorial and Drill and Practice instructional packages for teaching Graphics, determine the relative effects of these packages on students’ performance in Graphics,examine the effects of the packages in improving students’ retention of concepts in Graphics, investigate the effects of these packages on students’ attitude to Fine-Arts and investigate influence of sex on students’ performance in Graphics. The study adopted the non-equivalent pretest, posttest control group design. The sample was made up of four intact classes of JSS III students in four schools from each of the four states mentioned above. The schools were purposively selected based on the availability of Fine-Arts studio. One intact class each was selected from the schools using simple random sampling technique. The schools were then assigned randomly to one control and three experimental groups. The study concluded that gender of the students did not have influence on the learning outcomes. In other words, the effectiveness of the treatment was not based on sex. It also concluded that the effectiveness of each of the treatment was not dependent on academic ability and finally that each of the three treatments were effective in improving students’ performance. Keywords: simulation, tutorial, drill-and-practice, gender, technology DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-8-05 Publication date: March 31 st 2021

‘Painting with my students’ – Development of Subject Matter and Refinement of Personal Styles in Selected Paintings among Fine Art Students at Kenyatta University

Students of Fine Art at the University level embark on many artistic undertakings within their semester durations as a requirement of their programme. In painting, a major objective is the development of a personal style that occurs over a period of time as each student works through the respective painting units spread out across the academic years. As they work through the units, they consolidate and refine their individual styles in readiness to begin their artistic careers in earnest, as well as enhancing their individual growth. This means that they spend a significant amount of time refining their skills as well as gaining knowledge. Another objective in painting is to help students delve into the realm of thematic interpretation in order to acquire the impetus towards an inquiry into the myriad of pertinent issues in their environment and life. This enables them to develop a rationalised personal view that in turn allows them to develop subject matter for the purpose of self-expression. Students’ work is often viewed as students’ work. This paper posits that this, however, does not necessarily denote that students, who for the purpose of this paper will be referred to as student artists, do not already possess the capacity to examine and interpret themes and extract admirable interpretations and anecdotes of self-expression. It does not imply that they do not already possess admirable painting skills even as they endeavour to further develop and refine these skills and consolidate their individual styles. It does not, subsequently, imply that what they paint lacks the capacity for significant inquiry, commentary and sense of self-expression. This paper delves into selected paintings by student Artists to determine whether their level of visual execution, construction and composition of subject matter as well as their interpretive ability, demonstrates or negates a current ability to meet the stated thresholds in their own right.

Causes and Solutions in Construction of the Historical Conception of Senior High School Fine Art Students

Artistic specialty students are relatively special in high school education of our country, fine art students is one of them. This article explains the reasons for the current problems to art students in the process of constructing the conception of history, combining with the actual conditions, it tentatively proposes corresponding solutions to promote the deepening development of the history teaching of art students and the construction of the conception of history, carry out the educational requirements of “strengthening moral education and cultivating people” in the teaching process.

HIV/AIDS related perception and behavior: A comparative study among college students of different majors in China

ObjectiveIn order to carry out proper education and intervention of AIDS based on different features and demands of different majors, this study aimed to compare the difference of college students from six majors in China in the aspects of AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. MethodsA questionnaire survey was carried out among 18,644 students in 30 colleges/universities from 9 provinces of China, who were recruited through stratified cluster sampling. AIDS-related knowledge, attitude, condom-use intention, self-efficacy and sexual behavior of these students were investigated. ResultsAIDS-related knowledge level of students majoring in education was the lowest while that of medical students was the highest as well as highest self-efficacy of condom use. Students of music or fine arts had the strongest intention to use condoms, while the students majoring in education had the weakest. The sexually active percentages of male students from different majors ranked as follows: music or fine arts (29.5%), minority nationality (12.2%), science & tech (10.9%), medicine (10.6%), education-major (10.0%), and liberal arts (8.2%). Among female students, the rank was music or fine arts (11.0%), science & tech (6.2%), education-major school (4.5%), minority nationality (4.5%), liberal arts (4.1%), and medicine (2.8%). ConclusionIt is urgent to enhance proper AIDS-related education and intervention based on the features and demands of students from different majors or universities, for example, to enhance comprehensive AIDS prevention education among students major in education and to increase behavioral skills to prevent sexually transmitted diseases among students from colleges or faculty of music or fine arts.

The passage of a painting: The learning process of students creating art for people with dementia

Making Art for Making Place, a joint education and research project, engaged post-secondary fine arts students in the creation of paintings for residents of a transitional care facility. The purpose of the project was to explore how improving the living environment through art could benefit the residents with dementia while considering the impact this had on the students themselves. This article draws from participant observations and follow-up interviews to examine the learning experiences of students who created paintings for the facility. Further, it explores the impact on their learning through interactions with nurses and expert researchers who joined the class to participate in group discussions and share their expertise working with people living with dementia. The research revealed that the project fostered positive community building; engaged students in discussions and reflections about how art affects people; prompted consideration of experiences of the elderly – particularly those with dementia; and expanded understandings of the roles of art in the society.

Identificação do tipo de tinta - acrílica ou vinílica - em obras de dois pintores contemporâneos, Manuel Vilarinho e Pedro Cabrita Reis, por ATR-FTIR

Many times, records of the materials used by contemporary artists in their first works are scarce. If the work under study has been carried out during the artist youth, sometimes artists just remember to have used synthetic materials but no longer have memory of its specific type. In the last decades of the 20th century, vinyl-based synthetic paints marketed as Sabu paints, were sold at affordable prices making them popular among the students of Fine Arts as substitutes of more expensive acrylic paints. Using the ATR-FTIR spectroscopic technique it was possible to unequivocally distinguish acrylic from vinyl paints in two early works from Manuel Vilarinho and Pedro Cabrita Reis, both belonging to the collection of the Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. Samples from the first case painting presented the characteristic peaks of acrylic paints while those collected from the second case paint presented the characteristic peaks of Sabu paints.

HYPOTHETICAL APPROACHES TO SCAFFOLDING FOR LEARNING OF STUDIO PAINTINGS

Painting is a branch of visual arts discipline in Nigeria education and often traced to Paleolithic age. The study was inspired by the dismal attitude of undergraduate towards painting and painting media this makes it very important for painting instructors to vary both media and method in painting. Therefore, Scaffolding serves as a panacea in filling the existing gap. Quasi-experimental design was used in the study. 60 undergraduate fine arts students of 200 levels of 29 male and 31 female were taken from a Nigeria university. The study presented two research questions and formulated two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Scaffolding Painting Achievement Test (SPAT) was of 50 items objectives question extract from validated JAMB visual arts examination was the test items. The Data collected were analyzed with ANCOVA and t-test. Study disclosed that undergraduate students taught painting via Scaffolding performed better and no significant difference was recorded between the mean of both female and male arts learners exposed to Scaffolding. It was recommended that Scaffolding should be used for teaching of painting in Nigeria university.. DOI: 10.24071/ijiet.2020.040104

And Now a Return to Ourselves: Working toward an Ancestor Reverence Pedagogy

The narratives, knowledges, and representations in the canon of fine art practice often proclaim to introduce students to new ways of making in environments steeped with criticality. This discourse fails to include Indigenous and embodied knowledges as part of their canons. This erasure is normalized and rarely questioned, and it reproduces an imperial, aesthetic arrogance. Traditional fine art pedagogies must expand. Social media provides multitudes of examples of the increasing awareness and reclaiming of ancestral traditions in efforts to heal colonial trauma. African and other Indigenous aesthetics are then often co-opted, packaged, marketed, sold to the public. The majority of these initial processes are often conducted by artists who work in the commercial arena. This article opens inquiries of fine art pedagogy and processes that disrupt, problematize, challenge, and transform its colonial educational model by employing decolonial knowledges. This article shares a five-step pedagogical process as a working example of how we can intentionally teach ritual in a fine arts institution while orienting ourselves against the epistemic violence of cultural appropriation often featured in the work produced by fine art students. The urge to separate indigeneity and marginalized identities from their histories and geographies is situated at the heart of modernity, a territory designating which knowledges are legitimate, legible, and visible. Using decolonial love as the framework for an ancestor reverence pedagogy, this article does not provide an answer but instead offers an embodied approach from the margins of rejection to resist the hegemony of fine art pedagogy.

Enhancing the creative learning experience through harnessing the creative potential of digital and social media platforms in art and design educational contexts

Despite the advancements in social media technologies, the effectiveness of repurposing them for pedagogical purposes is yet to be evaluated as an educational approach in the conventional art or design classroom. The research analyses the potential role of digital and social media applications in enhancing the creativity of art and design students, and explores the benefits they bring to the creative process both for students and educators. It involves two experimental studies; the first study explores the use of a digital painting technique by 23 fine arts students, while the second study investigates the use of social media apps by 42 graphic design students. The study is undertaken in an experimental educational setting and aims to determine how digital media can be employed by educators to expand student's creative thinking. The findings examine the students' and educators' attitudes, preferences, and the challenges they face while incorporating these technologies.

Enhancing the Creative Learning Experience through Harnessing the Creative Potential of Digital and Social Media Platforms in Art and Design Educational Contexts

Despite the advancements in social media technologies, the effectiveness of repurposing them for pedagogical purposes is yet to be evaluated as an educational approach in the conventional art or design classroom. The research analyses the potential role of digital and social media applications in enhancing the creativity of art and design students, and explores the benefits they bring to the creative process both for students and educators. It involves two experimental studies; the first study explores the use of a digital painting technique by 23 fine arts students, while the second study investigates the use of social media apps by 42 graphic design students. The study is undertaken in an experimental educational setting and aims to determine how digital media can be employed by educators to expand student's creative thinking. The findings examine the students' and educators' attitudes, preferences, and the challenges they face while incorporating these technologies.

Diario visual como una simbiosis de expresión artística entre imágenes y texto: material didáctico aplicado al ámbito educativo

This article presents a project conducted with students of a master’s degree in Primary Education. A visual diary was designed to cultivate structured thinking through images and children’s creativity. In this project, the students created teaching materials for the Practicum subject, a practical teaching internship taken in schools. The focus of this initiative was to design a visual diary to facilitate second language learning (English), while also working through a multidisciplinary approach and promoting visual and textual language and enriched education from an early age. Furthermore, the project involved postgraduate Fine Art students who designed educational cards for preschool children. The configuration of images and texts is related to the imaginary world of children and includes synthesised shapes and interrelated text that form part of their visual culture. In addition, this project explores synthesising information through other visual media, such as symbols and icons.

Teaching students to write about art: Results of a fouryear patchwork text project

Abstract This article presents the findings from a four-year project designed to gather undergraduate Fine Art students' perceptions of replacing an essay with a Patchwork Text Assessment (PTA), a form of assessment in which a series of self-contained, thematically related patches are written at regular intervals over a series of weeks or months and are then stitched together with a final meta-patch exploring the unity and interrelatedness of the individual patches. On completion of the PTA, students were asked a series of questions about their experiences, and analysis of their responses showed that they had found completing the PTA more difficult, more enjoyable and more rewarding than writing an essay. Importantly, there were no suggestions that the PTA had dumbed down assessment practices, nor was there an increase in the workload of the academic staff supporting and assessing the PTA.

Augmenting Master of Counseling Student Learning Outcomes through Interprofessional Education Experiences with Master of Fine Arts Students

ABSTRACTInterprofessional education (IPE) is a pedagogic strategy in which pre-professionals from multiple disciplines learn alongside one another. IPE works most effectively in institutions where related pre-professional programs operate in close proximity and with parallel learning requirements. However, not all counselor education programs co-occur with related disciplines, including programs housed at universities with smaller student populations and fewer related academic programs. The purpose of this article is to report the development, application, and pilot qualitative evaluation of a collaboration at a small university in which masters-level counseling students engaged in creative IPE experiences with students enrolled in a masters-level writing program. Relevant literature is reviewed and the strengths and challenges of utilizing an IPE approach in counselor preparation are examined. Implications for counselor education and research are discussed.