Engraving: Calcography

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

Cycles of Study/Courses

Teaching language

Objectives

Solid learning of the methods that assist a workshop production of original intaglio graphic work ,  introducing  the most relevant historical procedures (engraving, etching, drypoint, aquatint,  photomechanical techniques, additive techniques). This technological approach allows the student to develop independent work, analytical ability and critical sense about printmaking.

Students broaden the understanding of the boundaries of self-publishing and its technological resources of production, whether within an individual practice, whether as formal, technological resources or as elements of a critical language. Students acquire a technological decision-making capacity for the correct implementation of artistic ideas, and presentation to specialists and the general public.

Students develop experimental and research practices based on the updating of print processes historically employed in original graphic production contexts. The variety of research and implementation strategies -technological experiments, artistic experimentation, manuals and book of specimens -provides an fine art studio consolidation of a spectrum of graphic procedures. Students acquire the methodological skills related to the workshop practice in order to broaden their own technical repertoire and implement ideas of increasing complexity.

Students understand how the experimentation and verification of the explicit and implicit mechanisms of the technologies work, help to understand the historical, social and technical context of printmaking in an expanded field. It is by practice that students understand the historical, social and technical context of printmaking, they learn to respect the graphic traditions in their relation with the officinal production, in the sense of the efficiency of the results in an integrated way with the expressive practice and individual critical

Learning outcomes and competences

Students understand the imperative of technological proficiency required for creative practice as well as demonstrate flexibility in mobilizing and adapting procedures and strategies appropriate to the individual needs of independent, creative workl with demonstrated capacity for innovation.

Students consolidate project documentation methods and their technological knowledge allows to broaden the implementation spectrum, originality giving further potencial to their research. The skills acquired allow the eclectic use of various methods of image reproduction

Students are able to organize the technological, methodological content addressed by integrating them into the various curricular programs (painting, sculpture, multimedia, communication design). Its ability to implement ideas and creativity in an interdisciplinary research ensures an innovative approach and transversal consolidation of the individual creative process.

Students develop an ability to deal with complex technological information in a clear, proportionate and critical manner, especially in matters related to support, preparation procedures and printed image layout.

Students learn to maximize the use of equipment and time available in workshops, participating and understanding the potential of collaborative workshop environments

Working method

Program

Mandatory literature

Complementary Bibliography

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes of presentation and analysis of technological procedures.



Demonstration sessions conducted in strict compliance with technological guidelines. Progressive approach to various technical stages.



Research sessions, development and preliminary exercises for projects of a more experimental nature.



Sessions of deepening of the practice implied from the technical hypotheses presented and already tested and those that arise from an individual exploration of the statements.



Collective sessions of presentation, presentation, analysis, discussion and criticism of the projects carried out.



Collective sessions of exhibition, presentation, analysis, discussion and invitations to recorders to expose experiences or work and study visits.



Tutorial actions of orientation and collective and individual criticism to the different types of research produced.



Great importance given to experience sharing sessions held in the workshops, with consultations with your archives, exchange of experiences with presentation of work in progress by the colleagues of degree, master's or doctorate that thus show their researches and works.



Presentation, discussion and implementation of an individual research project aimed at self-publishing, where the learning about the technical procedures most appropriate for the production of graphic speeches is applied and verified.

Individual presentation of the work, report and documentation of the project in collective sessions of critical analysis on work developed with reflection on common themes, authors, methodologies applied

Evaluation Type

Assessment Components

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Eligibility for exams

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation focuses on the observation of the performance of each student against the objectives of the program and the result against the proposed exercises. These are inserted in:



Project with individual themes, accompanied by an appropriate documentary record.



Experimental tests kept in parallel with the obligation to complete  printed works of small and / or medium format.



The following parameters are also considered:



Follow-up to all the organized demonstrations and its aplication to individual experimental exercices 



Ability to work and monetize available studio space.



Involvement with the practice of printmaking in an experimental and workshop sense.



Acquisition of technical skills adequate to the production of original graphic work.



Originality and quality of the evidence produced.



Ability to contextualize and position the graphic production in the work itself as a contemporary artistic practice.