Drawing and Composition Practices

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

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

The unit aims at training practices of plastic, graphic and conceptual experimentation, developing strategies of visual composition. Students should acquire formal analytical-conceptual capacities, between contemporary artistic drawing and illustration. They will develop capacity for transformation and fusion between analogical and digital drawing.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Representation, appropriation and transformation concepts.

Formal exploration of graphic representation

Formal relationship between concepts and drawing

Organization and structure of the visual field

Illustration as a text.

Development of skills to think and create forms and shapes

Exploring the computational medium for graphical/visual/plastic expression. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Valdemar dos Santos Mendes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Evidence of participation : 25.0%
Project: 75.0%

Bibliography

Wong, W. (1972) Principles of two-dimensional design. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.

Wong, W. (1997). Principles of Color Design. Jonh Wiley & Sons.

Kandinsky, W. (2006). Do espiritual na Arte. Lisboa:Dom Quixote.

Kandinsky, W. (2006). Ponto Linha, Plano. Lisboa: Edições 70.

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

Wiedemann , J. (org.) (2012) Illustration Now. Nova Iorque:Taschen.