Help to optimize the skills of drawing at different stages of formalization of a practical problem (project)

Promoting experimentation and organization of ideas, concepts and practices through operational drawing strategies;

Contribute to the experience and suitability of drawing tools that strengthen the development of projective and / or procedural methodologies;

Help form images and suitable concepts that support the development and formalization of the project.

Promote attitudes of active participation and encourage cooperation among students - respective academic aspects and professional practices - and between them and the different curricular units.

Promote reflection and critical thinking in the project.

Objectives:
- To create a space for reflection on the nature, actions and the implications of different procedural drawing and printmaking tools, in particular on the techniques, processes, tools, media and technological means;
Developing the theoretical and practical knowledge and vocabulary specific to drawing and printmaking based on the historical evolution of its means and techniques;
To develop practical work and a critical discourse by being aware on the role of the tools used; Supporting the workshop and studio space in the consolidation of learning in strategic technology areas for the development of artistic practice, and towards its expansion;
To know and test in a directed and systematic selection of a technological components or stages of work of the practice of drawing in order to establish their fundamentals and replicable methodologies to inform in more complex contexts;
Work and expand the creative and experimental aspects which assist in the production of drawing and printmaking punctually, through the initiation to technology projects of short duration, conducted by a route based on methodological and historical review and update their practice learning outcomes;
To circumscribe technological learning by attending demonstrations on techniques and procedures related complementary to initial training, described in final report; The application in the production of a portfolio images which demonstrate the mastery of the methods introduced and agreement of them with a personal investigation; Development of an individual project consistent with the objectives and appropriate means to these ends, monitored and guided by the teachers responsible for the course; Developing skills to work independently or in collaboration in order to continue the practice of producing and editing after the training period; Acquiring and developing the skills and expertise, references to the conceptual drawing and printmaking work; Identifying, developing and consolidating knowledge about the techniques and processes of drawing and printmaking most appropriate for the work in progress; Learning how to maximize the use of available equipment and time in the workshops, participating actively in the environment of sharing and interdependence as well as the definition of patterns of interaction with more specific area of drawing; Developing editing and printing skills, presentation and time management, resources and equipment workshops for the implementation of the project personal or collective

1. To provide a basic understanding of the scientific procedure and fundamental dimensions of the research process in the Fine Arts;

2. To familiarize students with concepts, core problems, fundamental theories and practices inherent in the research process and the logic of empirical research;

3. To enable the student to develop research practices based on the identification of an idea and formulation of a problem, in a logical fashion.

4. To promote the development of an ethical and critical awareness of the scientific research on the arts.

Painting Seminars is a course that promotes the discipline as an artistic expression in its most varied manifestations. As an art practice, painting is much more than just a physical activity, it is a long-term critical commitment to ideas and sensibilities. This course will be committed to help students deepen their vision, it will support the wide diversity of formal and conceptual approaches, styles and interests. The course will also encourage critical dialogue, in the form of debates, visits to exhibitions and artists studios and through the contribution of guest artists.

The global objective of this unit is to contribute to broader discussions on contemporary artistic practices and their crossings with other areas. These discussions will take place with the work oh artits into the class room.

• To value the experimental methodologies and group discussions.
• To encourage the intersection with the work developed in other curricular areas or even in other contexts.
• To develop analytical tools, individually and in group.

To explore the creative potentialities of transferences of actions between drawing and other performance fields.

To develop experimental and critical skills to analyze creative processes motivated by the used of drawing in performance contexts.

To identify the features and strategies that foster the emergence of drawing as a performative act in contemporary art, as well as the understanding of the performative act as drawing.

To support a more coherent and self-critic practice-based research that explores drawing in its performative dimension.

The curricular unit "Seminars of Research Methodologies II" proposes a meeting with various artistic intensities, insofar as thinking methodologies in the field of art is done in an approximation to the practice. From the discussion on what could be a "practical methodology" and the essay on its various operational modes, it is intended to trigger the invention of a theoretical-practical individual research context.

"Research Methodology Seminars II" seeks, in the same way:

1) find solutions for an interconnection between this UC and the educational path of students in the context of Master. This communication seeks that the final material produced in this course unit, incorporate any reports of the course unit that students have to deliver at the end of the 1st year of the Master;

2) To provide students with a structured document presenting a plastic project and research intentions for the potential creation of an orientation team, scheduled for the beginning of the 2nd year of the Master's program;

3) Create a document that can be used as a starting point for the work to be carried out in the course Unit Study and Research Practices;

4) Learning and consolidation of processes, notions and methodologies, simultaneously incorporating new proposals and maturing the capacity for reflection and artistic-scientific production;

5) Involvement in the production of critical knowledge and creative thinking as a means to reflect and express cultural values;

6) Encourage the consideration and knowledge of creative processes to reframe the understanding of different tools, technologies, theories, concepts and methods.

To problematize the relations between verbal and nonverbal, between text and image, highlighting has working material the writings and the speech of the artists.
To develop tools of analysis and interpretation of the writings of artists, especially of contemporary artists.
For the students with artistic practice, it will also be the place to experiment and rehearse their own written production in parallel/intersection with their studio work, anticipating the completion of the final master's project.

- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding and capacity of communication of their individual artistic and critical concerns;

- Evaluate critically the means and materials of presenting studio-based research;

- Utilise source material effectively for attaining innovative objectives of their individual practice and research;

. Promover e consolidar a criação e produção autónomas, através da reflexão e experimentação contextualizadas no sentido do aprofundamento das competências necessárias ao desenvolvimento dos projetos de investigação em Escultura;

. Estimular o envolvimento dos mestrandos na articulação entre a concepção, indagação e concretização plástica, diligenciando para que referidos projetos sejam devidamente articulados com metodologias que os favoreçam;

. Incentivar ações individuais e em equipa promovendo a partilha de conhecimentos e o espírito de equipa;

. Fomentar o exercício da práxis artística, autónoma e comunicante preferencialmente em função de uma experiência prática, que se pretende consequente, rigorosa, e competente, favorecendo o estudo dos fenómenos relativos às práticas artísticas em articulação e diálogo com as restantes Unidades Curriculares; 

Estúdio de Escultura organiza-se e centraliza a sua ação no sentido da coordenação e apoio ao desenvolvimento e consolidação do projeto/ plano individual dos estudantes. Concentrado no modelo TP de orientação individualizada, promove igualmente diversas dinâmicas através de aulas de exposição temáticas, debates em grupo, residências e/ou workshops, aulas com convidados, para além da análise e estudo de casos concretos e/ou núcleos temáticos, fomentando-se igualmente a articulação com as outras Unidades Curriculares.

OBJECTIVOS:

1. Definição de uma identidade artística e investigadora fundamentada no desenho, seus contextos de ação e ambientes mediais.
2. Desenvolvimento de uma reflexão rigorosa e crítica das preocupações inerentes ao projeto artístico/de investigação
3. Introduzir/aprofundar capacidades técnicas e processuais relacionadas com os procedimentos do desenho, ampliando as possibilidades instrumentais de cada estudante.
4.Desenvolver metodologias de investigação baseadas em práticas experimentais, cujos resultados se comunicam na sua dimensão de imagens/objetos.