2023

Introduction to Drawing and Representation I

Name: Introduction to Drawing and Representation I
Code: VIS12828L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Artes Plásticas

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

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Development of the capacity for analysis and synthesis through the observation, interpretation and graphic recording of conceptual and material models.
Development of operational capacity through the exploration of the behaviors and potentialities of the different supports and registries, as well as the experimentation of different ways of representing, creating and discovering.
. Development the capacities to materialize ideas and the critical spirit.
Progressive reflexive, technical and creative autonomy of the student.
. Study of the objects and awareness about the ethical and critical dimension of the artist and his artistic production.

Contents

Operational means of graphic language:
.Materials–Supports and instruments (conventional and unconventional). .Conceptual–The senses, the memory and the imagination.
Structural elements of the graphical language:
. point, line, plan, texture, colour and bright/dark values, shape, positive space/negative space, surface, time, support ordering trace, basic structural lines, primary and secondery axes, implicit and explicit lines.
Operational modes:
Scale, placement/signification, function; direction; cohesion, stability, fluctuation, instability, weight and tension, dynamics of a composition, proximity relations, distance, adjacency, overlapping; transparency, opacity, contamination and attraction between forms; visual mobility, perspective, distance, proximity and the different points of view, simplification through leveling and through accentuating, construction, deconstruction, inversion, rotation, movement, rhythm, alternation, simultaneity, collage and other expressive aspects.

Teaching Methods



The program consists of exercises, theoretical presentations of the contents and study visits. The evaluation is continuous taking into account: attendance; commitment; creativity; evolution, and; knowledge domain. There will be a continuous evaluation and a final assessment evaluated by a jury composed of the subject teacher and teachers of the course.

In the NORMAL SEASON assessment students can opt for the Continuous Evaluation or Final Evaluation schemes. The RECOURSE, SPECIAL and EXTRAORDINARY seasons are governed by the Final Evaluation scheme.

1. CONTINUOUS EVALUATION:
a) Participation in classes: 20%;
b) Work done in the classes with the teacher follow-up and submitted at least to a periodic evaluation: 40 %;
c) Presentation and defense of the work done during classes: 40%.
– Classification: sum of a), b) and c).

2. FINAL EVALUATION:
a) Work done in the classes with the teacher follow-up: 40%;
b) Exam about the subject contents: 60%.
– Classification: sum of a) and b)