Course Unit / Drawing and Composition

Drawing and Composition

Year
1
Academic year
2016-2017
Code
01007599
Subject Area
Fine Arts
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

 Drawing and Representation, Visual Culture, Art History

Teaching Methods

Exploring the graphic representation and the graphic expression; creating news situations and news problems.

Creating drawings/illustrations motiveted by concepts or words

Formal and conceptual analysis of drawing examples in contemporary art and the relationship with common strategies for the contemporary illustration.

Learning Outcomes

Practices of experimentation plastic and graphic; conceptual research; analysis capacity between drawing and contemporary illustration; capacity of transformation and fusion between analogique and digital draw.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Formal exploration of graphic representation

Representation, appropriation and transformation

Appropriation and recontextualization of images

Strategies of  visual composition

Illustration as a text

Development of skills to think and create forms and shapes

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Alice Barriga Geirinhas dos Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 25.0%
Project: 75.0%

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AA.VV. (1997-2004). Catálogos Ilustração Portuguesa. Bedeteca de Lisboa

Cronin, B.(2008). Cronin Twenty five years and Change. Casa da Cerca

Geirinhas, A. (1998). Alice. Bedeteca de Lisboa.

Grosz. G.  (1992) Obra Gráfica- Los Años de Berlin. IVAM.

AA.VV. (2002). Mis Primeras 80.000 Palavras.  Media Vaca

Perry, M. (2007). Hand Job- A catalog of Type. Princeton

Chwast, S. (2004). The Push Pin Graphic. Chronicle Books

Storr, R & Dennis C. (2001) Raymond Pettibon. Phaidon.

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