2023

Introduction to Drawing and Representation II

Name: Introduction to Drawing and Representation II
Code: VIS12874L
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

. Continued development of the capacity for analysis and synthesis through observation, interpretation and graphic recording of conceptual and material models.
. Evolution of operational capacity through the exploration of the behaviors and potentialities of the different supports and registers, as well as the experimentation of different ways of representing, creating and discovering.
. Deepening 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

O programa consiste em exercícios, exposições teóricas dos conteúdos e visitas de estudo. A avaliação é contínua tendo em conta: assiduidade; empenho; criatividade; evolução, e; domínio de conhecimentos. Terão lugar provas de avaliação contínua e uma final avaliada por um júri composto pelo docente da disciplina e docentes do curso.

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)..