Drawing and Composition Practices
1
2024-2025
02042537
Fine Arts
Portuguese
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
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)
NoSyllabus
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.