2024
History of the Portuguese Art II
Name: History of the Portuguese Art II
Code: HIS14546L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History of the Art
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The curricular unit addresses the following main objectives:
a. awareness of Portuguese arts, its aesthetic and cultural contexts
b. knowledge of the most significant artistic achievements and their categories in an historical context
c. improvement of the ability to identify the aspects of social, cultural and psychological expression of such artistic achievements.
In reference to skills and competences to be acquired by students, it is intended to improve:
a. the capacity to identify styles and protagonism
b. the ability to observe artistic achievements, the capacity for criticism and the recognition of the adequate study sources.
c. the understanding that images and graphic construction are a tool to set the works of art as visual sources
Regarding the principles of active learning, according to the learning objectives set out above, it is expected that students will be able to express knowledge through their own communicative strategies, promoting key presentations.
a. awareness of Portuguese arts, its aesthetic and cultural contexts
b. knowledge of the most significant artistic achievements and their categories in an historical context
c. improvement of the ability to identify the aspects of social, cultural and psychological expression of such artistic achievements.
In reference to skills and competences to be acquired by students, it is intended to improve:
a. the capacity to identify styles and protagonism
b. the ability to observe artistic achievements, the capacity for criticism and the recognition of the adequate study sources.
c. the understanding that images and graphic construction are a tool to set the works of art as visual sources
Regarding the principles of active learning, according to the learning objectives set out above, it is expected that students will be able to express knowledge through their own communicative strategies, promoting key presentations.
Contents
1. Arts in the 18th Century: the Baroque apogee to the Enlightenment and Academicism. Regional cycles and decorative programs.
- The Palace-Convent of Mafra and the architecture of northern Portugal.
- Pombaline Lisbon.
- Carving and tile.
- The painting.
2. Arts in the 19th Century: Romanticism and the long-lasting Naturalism taste to the Eclecticism.
- Neoclassicism.
- Revival and eclectic architecture.
- Landscape and history painting.
- Sculpture and the industrial arts
3. The Arts between 1900-1970: from the Modernity refusal to the avant-gardist acceptance. Celebrating the Nation: the Estado Novo art promotion.
- Modernism.
- The Portuguese World Exhibition
- Neorealism, Surrealism and Abstractionism
- Architectural nationalism and internationalism.
- The new artistic languages.
4. Arts after 1970: post-modernist and pluri-aesthetical intervention. The Grand Exhibitions,
- The Palace-Convent of Mafra and the architecture of northern Portugal.
- Pombaline Lisbon.
- Carving and tile.
- The painting.
2. Arts in the 19th Century: Romanticism and the long-lasting Naturalism taste to the Eclecticism.
- Neoclassicism.
- Revival and eclectic architecture.
- Landscape and history painting.
- Sculpture and the industrial arts
3. The Arts between 1900-1970: from the Modernity refusal to the avant-gardist acceptance. Celebrating the Nation: the Estado Novo art promotion.
- Modernism.
- The Portuguese World Exhibition
- Neorealism, Surrealism and Abstractionism
- Architectural nationalism and internationalism.
- The new artistic languages.
4. Arts after 1970: post-modernist and pluri-aesthetical intervention. The Grand Exhibitions,
Teaching Methods
The lectures, starting with the exposition of contents, will also benefit of the use of auxiliary technological means leading to the most effective contact with the works of art. A targeted monitoring of the students will be established concerning the progress of learning. It is foreseable a development of strategies that lead students into the status of active elements of such progress, bringing competences to personal preparation, interest for joint debates and public presentation of subjects.
Teaching regime will preferably be face-to-face but distance activities may be provided, with limits. The case may be remote assistance to lectures and conference events. Other activity may take place through visits, either to museums or local galleries, or taking advantage of organized study trips.
Teaching regime will preferably be face-to-face but distance activities may be provided, with limits. The case may be remote assistance to lectures and conference events. Other activity may take place through visits, either to museums or local galleries, or taking advantage of organized study trips.
Assessment
Students must choose between the continuous assessment, comprising two written assessments or written tests (50%+50%) on dates to be agreed and granted approval, being also possible the evaluation retrieval by proof of final examination (100%) or by appeal test/ grade improvement (100%).
Teaching Staff
- Manuel Francisco Soares do Patrocínio [responsible]
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