Composition Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

This course can be taken by studentes with any background.

Teaching Methods

Using 2D and 3D image manipulation software, the students gather images from different origins and apropriate them, transforming them in new images that they create. The dispersive elements gatheredare turned into new strutured compositions. Working mainly on bidimensional images, the students can introduce animated elements, or elements produced in 3D softwares.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this course is to provide the students with skills that enable them to be able to articulate the formal relations of the elements of an image.

Starting from multiple image sources, by processes similar to those of collage (using any suitable software), the students create images that seek formal coherence, facing mainly the formal aspects of communication.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Formal exploration of digital image      

2. Apropriation and consequent transformation of images.      

3. Composition and digital collage.           

4. Composition of different forms in an image.        

5. Formal relations between concepts and images.   

6. Image as dinamic relationships between concepts more than mere illustration.   

7. Development of skills on thinking with forms and through forms.

Head Lecturer(s)

António José Olaio Correia de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Research work: 20.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 80.0%

Bibliography

Arga, Giulio Carlo, “Arte Moderna”, Ed. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, 1998

Arnheim, Rudolf, “El poder del centro”, ed. Alianza Forma, Madrid, 1988

Arnheim, Rudolf, “Visual Thinking”, University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1984

Benjamin, Andrew, “What is abstraction?”, Academy Editions, Boston 1996

Cooper, Douglas, The Cubist Epoch, Phaidon Press, London, 1999

Godfrey, Douglas, “Drawing Today”, Phaidon Press, London , 1990-

Kepes, Gyorgy, “Education of vision”, Studio Vista, London, 1965

Kepes, Gyorgy, “Language of Vision”, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1995

Munari, Bruno, “Das coisas nascem as coisas”, Edições 70, Lisboa, 1981

Perry, Michael, “Hand Job”, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009