Modelling and Moulding II

Code:

MMII211

Acronym:

MMII

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Fine Arts

Instance: 2011/2012 - 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	10	Official Study Plan 2011	3	-	4,5	64	121,5
			4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Modelling and molding II aims at the consolidation, deepening and maturation of the knowledge and experience obtained in Modelling and molding I, namely:
1. Improvement of visual acuity and of analitic/sintetic capacities. analíticas/sintéticas.

2. Sensory understanding of the shapes in three dimensional space.

3. General composition principles aplication in the organization of three dimensional shapes.

4. Approached methods and techniques aplication, bearing in mind the evolutional construction processes that require a phased course.
5. Reflection and critical analysis sense on the approached matters.
6. Legitimation of an own language.

7. Investigation capacity (assembling, selecting and custom information treatment).

8. Inovation capacity.

9. Resources managment (working space, equipment and materials).

Program

This subject pretends to develop the specific knowledge on the main methods and techniques of the modelling practice in the sphere of sculpture, and in the tridimensional plastic creation, in which the ductile raw materials own special detach as expeditious and preparatory tools in the distribution, organization and awareness of the shapes in three dimensional space.
The syllabus is developed through the aplication and management of operative and constructive methods of which the practice of modelling makes use, contemplating particularly its proficuous progresses from the beginning of the 20th century to contemporaneity.
In this context, it is wanted that, through a constructive process essentialy based on material addition (inside out and from general to particular), the manipulation, the transformation and the sctructuring of an limited number of raw materials liable to be modelled (clay, plaster, waxes, plasticine, among others) come up, through a set of proposed exercises, as basic principles in the conquest and organization of the three dimensional shapes in space, where characteristics as scale, proportions, internal/external relations and connection of volumes become crucial elements of composition to the study’s and involved processes’ development.

Mandatory literature

AA.VV. ; Procedimientos y materiales en la obra escultórica, Aka, 2009. ISBN: 978-84-460-1805-6
Toft, A.; Modelling and Sculpture: a guide to traditional methods., Dover Publications, 2004. ISBN: 0-486-43511-3

Complementary Bibliography

Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política
EDUARD, L.; MODELLING AND SCULPINGTHE HUMAN FIGURE, Dover Publications, 1985. ISBN: 0-486-28006-7
Idgley, B. (Dir.); Guia Completa de Escultura, Modelado y Ceramica. Técnicas e Materials, H Blume Ediciones, 1982. ISBN: 84-87756-29-8
AA.VV. ; Aplicação de materiais de última geração à fundição escultórica com a utilização de molde químico. Emprego de Poliestireno Expandido como molde gaseificável., FBAUL, 2008
AA.VV. ; Ensaios sobre reprodutibilidade, FBAUL, 2008

Teaching methods and learning activities

A set of structuring proposals of pedagogical strategies will be formulated, since a number of actions will happen around each one; present classes for accompaniment of the proposals in development, crossing plastic, technical, conceptual and critical aspects.
Presentation sessions in order to promote the confrontation with examples from art’s history of several periods, and with the contemporary artistic practice, depending on the available medium (image projection, video or others).
Field trips to exhibitions, museums, atliers, and others which interest and oportunity are adequate to the exercice’s characteristics or that represent capital gains to the students’ artistic formation of that level; Individual and colective discussion moments as accompaniment to the proposed exercise’s answers, as well as reflection and critical analysis of the final obtained results in each exercise.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	68,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

The assessment is continuous, having to levels: The first level corresponds to the evaluation to which each concluded exercise is submited, in confrontation with the applied processes; the second level consists in the evaluation of the student’s progress along the semester, also present in the portfolio that the student himself is to compile, through which is possible to restore an whole evolutive vision.