2023

Plastic Arts II

Name: Plastic Arts II
Code: VIS12753L
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 reflexive and operative autonomy, through the observation and interpretation of reality
and of conceptual and material models.
The acquisition of knowledge, skills and competences progressively progresses at an advanced level of complexity
and is tailored according to the process of artistic research and experimentation.
a. Formulate and articulate ideas;
b. Develop the operational and operating capacity of the different supports and instruments.
c. Stimulate the development of an individualized language;
d. Know how to argue and defend your work;
and.
e. Deepen reflective, technical and creative autonomy;
f. Provide background knowledge on artistic practice and the world of contemporary art;
g. To be aware of the ethical and aesthetic character of all the artistic production, as well as of the social function
of the artist in the context in which it is inserted.

Contents

The knowledge, skills and competences to be achieved are developed at an average level and will reflect the
degree of learning, whose pedagogical strategy focuses on the areas of painting and sculpture, with particular
emphasis on interconnection based on contemporary visual trends.
The students work the material and use different techniques to obtain objects of painting and sculpture, according
to the programmatic contents:
. Deepening the knowledge of techniques, supports, forms and contents, representation and abstraction, material
and conceptual operational means, as well as the role of painting and sculpture through the history of art;
. Operating modes; composition in pictorial space; texture (impastos, collages); volumetry, position and representation
staging; Painting and Sculpture in the contemporary artistic panorama. The problem of the theme,
concept and sources of information used to construct a painting and a sculpture;

Teaching Methods

For a meaningful teaching / learning, active methods are preferably applied that contribute to and reinforce
students' involvement, analysis, elaboration and critical capacity through discussion, individual follow-up of the
practical work, expositions of theoretical framework, viewing and discussion of communication material audiovisual,
iconographic and bibliographical relevance, participation in workshops and study visits that fit into the
syllabus contents of the curricular unit. During the semester there will be continuous evaluation tests and a final
evaluation. In the final evaluation the students are evaluated by a jury composed by the teacher of the course
and other teachers of the course, who will appreciate the work developed globally and assign a final quantitative
classification.
The evaluation values the process and results of the practical work carried out according to the criteria defined
in the curricular program. The evaluation values other parameters such as student attendance, motivation and
performance, as well as its evolution, taking into account the level of reflexive, technical and creative autonomy.

Standard Season (Continuous Assessment + Final Assessment)
Continuous Assessment (60%)
• 50% attendance
• 50% exercises made by the student on different small circuits (made during class)
Final Assessment (40%)
• Jury evaluation.