Painting Practices

Code:

PP500

Acronym:

PP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Fine Arts Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	23	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	3	-	6	60	162
			4

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Providing new opportunities and advice within the practice of painting for students of several years, who wish to enlarge their experience and knowledge in some technologies in the process of painting. It is intended as a privileged space for experimentation of theory vs practice, research, and resolution of technical problems that may arise from the intrinsic duality between process / project, in order to build a solid base of knowledge on various techniques and materials, under the practice of painting, which facilitates the students with tools for a consistent and objective reflection and in choosing the right practical methodologies for the development of a pictorial project.

Learning outcomes and competences

Acquire specific knowledge about painting techniques, and its proper use and application.

Deepen the knowledge already acquired in the field of painting in previous academic years, specifying the development of laboratory and methodological do the same.

Encourage a character of experimentation in new technologies pictorial, so complementary investigations practices developed in the core subjects.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

The basic level knowledge of drawing and painting.

 

Program

As it is a curricular unit open to students of three years and different curricular branches, the program will be individualized taking into account the specificity and knowledge base of each student.

In this discipline, each student will be given the option to choose to develop exercises to accompany/complement the technique associated with the construction of their individual project, at the level of the Atelier II or Project curricular unit, or, to choose to carry out a programmed exercises, about specific technologies for the development of technical knowledge of the various potentialities of application/use/maintenance as in-depth as possible of the materials in question.


The program is organized as follows:

Part I:
Introduction to watercolor

Part II:
A technique to choose from each student.
Examples of some of the possible techniques to be developed: watercolor, gouache, acrylic, dry pastels, oil pastels, oil, tempera, etc.
This includes initial as well as more advanced levels of experimentation.
In the selected technique, exercises will be proposed for its learning and development.

Mandatory literature

Bell Julian; What is painting ?. ISBN: 0-500-28101-7
Mayer Ralph; The^artist.s handbook of materials and techniques. ISBN: 0-571-11693-0
Mayer Ralph; Materiales y técnicas del arte. ISBN: 84-87756-17-4
Puttfarfen Thomas; The^discovery of pictoral composition. ISBN: 0-300-08156-1
Ray Smith; Manual Prático do Artista, Civilização Editores, 2006. ISBN: 989-550-125-0

Complementary Bibliography

Richter Gerhard; The daily practice of painting. ISBN: 0-500-27836-9
Betty Edwards; Color - a course in mastering the art of mixing colours, Penguin Group, 2004
Harrison Charles 340; Art & language in practice. ISBN: 84-88786-44-1 26.90
Harrison Charles; Conceptual art and painting. ISBN: 0-262-08302-7 50.53

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes using audiovisual material, accompanied by practical experimentation.

The practical aspect will always be privileged in the sense of bringing the student closer to a physical component, in which he understands how some processes will be more or less important for his own design interests.

The diversity of techniques and materials will give the student an idea of the breadth and importance of these aspects in painting, which he can later select and apply to his own work, within the scope of artistic research.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho laboratorial	90,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Estudo autónomo	102,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

In the evaluation is taken into account attendance and quality participation. It is mandatory to comply with a minimum of 75% of classes. It is essential the students' work being made in the atelier at the College, both during and outside of the class period.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The assessment is continuous, and as such will not be admitted to the Final Assessment the student who has not developed any contact with the teacher.

Calculation formula of final grade

As this is a curricular unit open to students from three different years, the situation of each student will be considered, not only as an individual case, but also with reference to the experiences and learning levels evidenced and detectable.
The importance of each of the different factors indicated above varies from case to case. Obviously, this is an evaluative activity that is not devoid of subjective elements.

However, in the final assessment, the following items will be accounted for:

Attendance/participation - 15%

Part I - Watercolor
Compulsory exercises completed - 15%
Evolution - 10%
Extra work - 10%
Technical resolution: 50%*

Part II - Free technique
Research and reasoning - 10%
Amount of work - 15%
Evolution - 10%
Technical resolution: 50%*


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*Technical resolution:

Support adequacy: 15%
Scale adequacy: 15%
Adequacy of pictorial technique in relation to the language used: 10%
Composition: 15%
Harmony/chromatic/tonal suitability: 15%
Plastic qualities (gesture, textures, transparencies, etc.): 15%
Rigor (details in the care of details, finishing of the object, etc.): 15%



It is reiterated that it is essential for the students' work to be carried out in the Atelier, at the Faculty during and outside the class period.