2024

Plastic Arts I

Name: Plastic Arts I
Code: VIS12748L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Artes Plásticas

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The general learning objectives promote the development of capacities for experimentation, representation,
analysis, synthesis and reflective and operative autonomy, through observation and interpretation of reality and
reference models.
The acquisition of knowledge, skills and competences progressively progress at a level of initiation and are
adjusted according to the process of artistic research and experimentation.
a. Ability to analyze images and be able to identify and know the meaning concepts addressed;
b. Know how to interpret and reinterpret references, processes and methods;
c. Formulate ideas in an articulated way;
d. Know how to distinguish the processes and methods explored;
e. Develop the operational and operating capacity of the different supports and instruments;
f. Develop capacity for analysis and synthesis;
g. To use properly the vocabulary of the plastic arts;
h. Create and articulate a language of its own;
l. Know how to argue and defend your work;
i. Stimulate reflexive, technical and creative autonomy.

Contents

The knowledge, skills and competences to be achieved are developed at a level of initiation and will reflect the
degree of learning, whose pedagogical strategy focuses on the areas of painting and sculpture.
The students will work on various materials and techniques to obtain objects of painting and sculpture, according
to the programmatic contents:
Introduction to techniques, supports, forms and contents, representation and abstraction, the material and
conceptual operational means, the role of painting and sculpture through the history of art.
Color; composition and pictorial and sculptural surfaces and characteristics of the space created by them); stain,
Grisaille; plots; brightness; negative space and positive space; full and empty; movement; volumetry and scenography
of representation; conceptual side effect of the use of paint on objects; form; concave / convex; contour;
strain / strain; proportion; parts / all; Weight; scale; stability; structure; function.

Teaching Methods

 During the NORMAL EVALUATION PERIOD students may choose one of two options: Continuous or Final Assessment.
The RESOURCE, SPECIAL and EXTRAORDINARY assessments are governed by the Final Evaluation scheme.
 
1. CONTINUOUS EVALUATION OPTION COMPONENTS
a. Class participation: 20%;
b. Work developed during the period with the aid of the teacher, which must be submitted, at least, to a periodic evaluation with public disclosure of the classifications: 40%;
c. Presentation and defense of the work developed during the classes, which occurs during the "Regular Season Evaluations": 40%.
 
The student's final grade is the sum of a), b) and c).
 
2. FINAL EVALUATION SCHEME COMPONENTS
a. Work developed during the period with the teacher's assistance: 40%;
b. Examination based on the contents taught: 60%.
 
The student's final grade is the sum of a) plus b)."