Częstochowa, Poland

Painting in architecture and urbanism
(field of studies: Painting)

Master's
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⇑Painting in architecture and urbanism at UJD

Field of studies: Painting
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.en.ujd.edu.pl

⇑Test: Is Painting in architecture and urbanism the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. An architect asks you to design a colour scheme for the façade of a new residential block. How do you react?

2. How do you feel about painting a mural several storeys high, working from scaffolding or a lift?

3. Residents have mixed feelings about a planned mural in their square. What do you do?

4. How do you feel about learning traditional wall techniques such as fresco, sgraffito and mosaic, alongside modern façade paints?

5. You’re asked to restore and reinterpret a faded decorative frieze on a historic building. How do you approach it?

6. How do you feel about reading architectural drawings, site plans and technical specifications?

7. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll work on public-space projects with artists and architects from many countries. How do you see that?

8. Walking through a grey housing estate, what goes through your mind?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Painting in architecture and urbanism?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Architecture
Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.
Urbanism
Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment. It is a direct component of disciplines such as urban planning, which is the profession focusing on the physical design and management of urban structures and urban sociology which is the academic field the study of urban life and culture.
Painting
The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, No. 136. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
Painting
Ottoman miniature painting gave up the warmth, the whimsy, the theatricality, and the multiple meanings of Iranian art in favor of realism, which was also expressed in Ottoman maps, fortress plans and geographies.
Ira M. Lapidus in: Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History, Cambridge University Press, 29 October 2012, p. 446
Architecture
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the ærial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Of History.

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