History of Portuguese Art

Code: HIS10835L

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

Presentation

This curricular unit proposes both in an historical perspective and in an aesthetical survey to present the currents and manifestations of Art in Portugal. Taking its respective social, religious and cultural framework the purpose is to identify the aspects of realization and prominence of producing

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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.

1. Arts, culture and society: foreground study perspectives.
2. From Early Christian art to the First Kings and monuments (ca. 1150-1350): Romanesque and Early Gothic.
3. Highlights - Gothic, Late Gothic (ca. 1350-1450): scale and privilege.
4. The coming of an artistic identity (1450-1525): from the Primitives to the Masters of King Manuel 1st.
5. Arts in 1500-1550: Humanism, Classicism and Mannerism.
6. Arts in 1550-1700: Counter Reformation, the Portuguese Plain Style and the 1st Baroque.
7. Arts in the 18th Century: the Baroque apogee to the Enlightenment and Academicism. Regional cycles and decorative programs.
8. Arts in the 19th Century: Romanticism and the long lasting Naturalism taste to the Eclecticism.
9. The Arts between 1900-1970: from the Modernity refusal to the avant-gardist acceptance. Celebrating the Nation: the Estado Novo art promotion.
10. 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. Students must choose between the continuous assessment, comprising one written test and one critical-descriptive group work on dates to be combined or the evaluation by final examination proof.