Performative Learning of Ancient Painting Techniques (Encaustic & Tempera)

Helen Ackers

15th February 2018

Pedagogic Interventions

Executive Summary

The purpose of this project is to organise two traditional painting techniques workshops at Warwick University. These will be led by Jevon Thistlewood, the painting conservator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Classics and Art History students will be brought together to participate in these workshops, which will greatly inform their academic understanding of ancient art and directly contribute to specific modules such as Domestic Space in the Roman World and MA Visual Culture. Student participants will have the opportunity to reproduce art works they have studied and to understand the tools, pigments and processes which went into creating these works. In this way students will make the transition from observers to practical participants in their own learning.

To fund two workshops (morning and afternoon) we require a grant of £1,000 from IATL. The workshop will take place in the second half of term two and will involve forty Art History and Classics students. We will arrange to create a short video of some of the techniques demonstrated as part of the workshop. This video will then be uploaded onto the department website informing later students about the understanding of traditional painting techniques.

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