Stone Workshop

Code:

OP01

Acronym:

OP

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

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	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	2	-	6	60	162
			3
			4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The UC main objective is to present the workshop universe around stonework as a space of freedom and investigation of the contemporary creative and artistic processes. Space, where the student can put their authorial work in perspective and complement their skills in the practice of sculpture, in the strictest sense of the word: sculpting, removing matter, but also in other perspectives of making actions on stone, pre-structured material, and the production areas associated with it.

This UC intends, in promoting exercises and supporting the idealization, production and completion of projects, which are defined in the need to use stone, to present its workshop space as a laboratory for experimenting with different materials and processes that mark the contemporaneity of sculpture, namely, the “direct cut”. Igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary stone will have focus of analysis and experimentation, as well as other materials to forms and composition essays.

The UC also intends to promote a space for critical reflection on authors and works, which assert themselves in the universe of Plastic Arts from the universe of stone work, either in the strict sense of mastery, or in procedural and production interdependence.

Other general objectives will be:

- Improvement of visual acuity and analytic / synthetic capabilities of volume, space and scale;

- Application of the general principles of composition of sculpture;

- Dissemination of basic stone carving and construction processes;

- Deepen knowledge about manual and mechanical direct cutting;

- Improve stone construction processes and the interdependence with other materials;

- Refinement of studio practice, the relationship and coordination with different workshop needs;

- Reflections and critical analysis on contemporary stonework universes;

- Competence in research, communication and innovation (collection, selection and personalized processing of information);

- refinement of resource management capacity (workspace, equipment and materials).

Specific objectives will be highlighted:

- Awareness and exploration of individual languages in the making of direct stone carving;

- Awareness and use of the creative space implicit in the personal management of stonework;

- Clarify interdependent relations of three-dimensional structuring of matter/composition/volume, scale/weight in the creation of an artistic work in stone;

- Reflections and critical analysis on contemporary stonework universes;

- autonomy in the design, production and completion of projects with stone work, management of materials and support tools necessary to ensure safety and hygiene in the workspace.

Learning outcomes and competences

The UC promotes a set of proposals that relate the student to work linked to stonework, encouraging him to achieve his results, in a favorable environment and with specific support, in a systematically more autonomous way. That is, from the selection and preparation of materials, to the organization of the necessary support structures for production, to the execution of sketches, as well as the control of manual and mechanical transformation processes, in determined volumes and scales, of refinement and final finishing. The search for and awareness of its own record in stonework, an individual language, synthesized from the universal grammar of action and the reasoning necessary for the conformation of pre-structured matter, through the action of sculpting.

The student will develop a systematic investigation around stonework, being proposed a variety of creative stimuli, materials and execution processes, in response to fundamental exercises relating to this universe. These will result in the conceptualization, execution and presentation of individual projects, which are intended to be decisive in their academic paths and specific artistic research, as well as positioning, analysis and reflection on the artistic universe of stonework.

 

The learning outcomes of this UC will be shaped mainly in pieces made of stone, conquered by various production processes, from direct carving, to construction and juxtaposition, to relief and engraving.

Students are thus expected to acquire the following competencies:

- Ability to idealize, produce and finalize an artistic work, starting with stone work or in need of support from the processes and materials associated with it;

- Distinction of the field of application of the various stone materials, through their physical characteristics and their possibilities and transformation processes;

- Awareness of the distinction and basic composition of the different materials of the stone universe;

- Research, framed in the universe of contemporary artistic practices, stonework, its historical evolution and current applications;

Working method

Presencial

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

To fulfill the objectives of UC, the results and the skills that obviously intend to enroll in research and questioning of the contemporary art field, students should be supported by acquired skills and taste for drawn, the capacity, interest and ambition to formulate project within the Plastic Arts, in the specificity of the stone work.

Program

Fundamental principles, methodologies, processes, techniques and the different petrographic group of the matter of sculpture and three-dimensional plastic creation in general, will be explored in a set of proposals that are composed in exercises, where students can acquire basic skills of Doing in stone and expressing its design idiosyncrasy. These guide the conquest and organization of three-dimensional stone shapes in space, where values ​​such as scale, volume and structure are crucial elements of composition. It is proposed individual artistic expression research space, and reflection on contemporary art, its relationship with stone production, namely, through direct, manual and mechanical carving, as a creative process of bodily implications, of responsibility for each action of Doing , with an intimate relationship with matter and its properties. Systematize the three-dimensional representation starting from the knowledge and feeling of the material, from drawing on it, from marking it by relief and / or in a round shape; raise awareness of the countless possibilities of crossing between stone and other materials, with special interest in those resulting from contemporary technological advances.

The program will be developed in three stages:

- Participation in several action proposals on pre-structured materials and stone;

- Submission of a personal practical project, within the scope of stonework;

- Submission of a personal theoretical investigation, within the scope of Making in stone;

Consequently, the Stone Making methods and techniques will be addressed in this Curricular Unit in three strands:

- Exploration and learning of stone material transformation processes, in response to proposals with an exercise character;

- Free artistic research, in the sense of support process for the realization of personal projects, with stone intervention;

- Relation of the student's general research with the world of Stone Making;

Mandatory literature

SANTAMERA, C. ; A Escultura em Pedra: A técnica e a Arte da Escultura em Pedra explicadas com rigor e clareza, Editorial Estampa, 2001
Batten Mark; Direct Carving in Stone, Alec tiranti, 1966
Marques Carlos; Da pedra e do Talhe Directo, Associação de Estudantes da ESBAP, 1986
AA.VV.; Rodin y la revolución de la escultura. De Camille Claudel a Giacometti, Fundació “La Caxia, 2006
AA.VV.; Sculpture: From Antiquity to the Present day, Taschen, 2002
HUGHES, A. & ERICH ; The Language of Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, 1974
Arkles Jason; On Sculpture- Leon Battista Alberti, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-300-96585-5
PLOWMAN, J. ; The Encyclopedia of Sculpting Tecniques: A compreensive visual guide to traditional and contemporary tecniques, New YorK: SR, 2003
AA.VV. ; Procedimientos y materiales en la obra escultórica , Aka , 2009
Collins Judith; Sculpture Today. ISBN: 978-0-7148-4314-8
Casella Gabriella; Gramática de Pedra, CRAT Porto , 2003. ISBN: 972-9419-43-4
Marques Carlos; A Importância da Escultura de Brancusi, Associação de Estudantes da ESBAP , 1985
Schodek Daniel L.; Structure in Sculpture, MIT Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-262-19313-2
Krauss Rosalind E.; Passages in Modern Sculpture. ISBN: 0-262-61033-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Program management is carried out through a series of theoretical and practical exercises and an individual project that aim to cover the above defined contents, aiming the development of capabilities that are listed in paragraph refers to objectives. This set of proposals is the spine of the entire pedagogical strategy since that it is around each one of them that will be mobilize all other measures, including:

1) – Theoretical and practical presentations of plastics and technical aspects involved in the development of the work;

2) Confrontation with art examples from different eras and contemporary artistic practice, through the means available (projection of images, video or other);

3) Study visits to exhibitions, museums, workshops, and others whose interest and opportunity are suitable ace current year features or are translated into an asset for the artistic education of pupils at this level;

4) Individual or collective discussion of the project drafts of the students;

5) Individual or collective discussion, focused on the various stages of project implementation;

6) Collective moment of reflection and critical analysis of the set of results obtained.

Students will be accompanied at all sessions by the teacher and a technician and have the opportunity to use the space and equipment out of these sessions under the supervision of technical and teaching when prompted.

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Trabalho laboratorial	35,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	10,00
Estudo autónomo	22,00
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Trabalho de investigação	25,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation is distributed, but being exercised at two levels:

First level: evaluation of the result of each ended work in confrontation with the applied processes and compliance with the objectives;

Second level: evaluation of student progress throughout the semester, before the file that compiles itself, through which it is possible to reconstruct an evolutionary overview.

Thus, obtaining the frequency of this course depends on:

1- active participation in scheduled workshops;

2- achieving the objectives and intended outcomes in each proposal;

3- delivery of a dossier compiling the investigation in terms of materials and processes, illustrated by the results obtained;

4- Paper Delivery, with a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 pages, including index, information sources and reference images. Framework the contemporary artistic practices universe, focusing on the universe of making in Stone, in intersection with the student's general investigation;

5- participation in the group exhibition of the results of the course completed in the room, clean and tidy;

 

Calculation formula of final grade

1. the results of each completed exercise are analysed, criticized and classified by:

 - stone work and language [corresponding to 100% of each work classification];

2. the results of the individual project are analysed, criticized and classified into three sections:

- support investigation, relevance and comprehensiveness [corresponding to 33% of the classification];

- stone work and language [corresponding to 33% of the classification]; 

- Results and presentation [corresponding to 33% of the classification]; 

3. Proposed set of exercise and individual project are 75% of the final mark of the year;

4. Paper and the dossier of research, register working path file corresponding to 15% of the final classification of the year, 10% being reserved for the first and 5% for the second;

5. Diligent participation in the sessions and in the group exhibition of the results of the course completed in the room, clean and tidy is 10% of the final mark of the year;

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Acording to the regulament.

Classification improvement

Frequency in UC the following year.

Observations

Several documents in PDF format, referring to the totality or specific fragments of the main bibliographic material, are available on Sigarra, on the course page, in documents.

Other references will be provided as per student project needs.