Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

HISTÓRIA DA ARTE CONTEMPORÃNEA - 2021/2022

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor António Oliveira
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor António Oliveira

Class type and School hours

Teórica : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Provide a set of information, knowledge and tools to allow the student a comprehensive knowledge of art history and the role it played in the civilizing process, equipping him for the measurements also plural of the art object.
Simultaneously we intend to develop the student´s sensitivity to adapt and apply knowledge to the field of artistic area.

Specific Aims/Objectives

To understand and discuss art in its permanent and pressing double feature (the "Useful" versus the "Beautiful") and while discourse and field of relationship between the symbolic and power.
To identify and characterise the major artistic movements in chronological order (the three major expressions of sculpture, painting and architecture), as well as some of its protagonists, explaining the artistic phenomena in the world of political, social, cultural and religious ideas in each era.

Skills to be acquired

-To identify and understand the subject matter and artistic work as a document / privileged testimony of its historical time;
- Identify and characterize the artistic movements that interact with Architecture and, thus, complement the Curricular unit of
Architecture I.
-To develop a critical attitude as receiver and user of art objects
-To use artistic references as a stimulus for creativity in the professional area.

Teaching Procedures

Expository method: using various materials, enabling the transmission of knowledge in a structured and continuous manner.
Interrogative method: questioning, where appropriate, the students.
Active method: students should take the initiative to combine the subject with other bibliographic topics in order to allow a better consolidation of the knowledge acquired.

Programme

Man, Art and History.
What is Contemporary Art.
The Art History function.
The Art and the symbol.
From Art manufactured to Art produced in series.
New contemporary trends.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation will be done through two individual assignments, plus attendance at the end of the semester.

Teaching Resources

Make use of new information and communication technologies.
Use of images (slides, powerpoints and videos) that illustrate and substantiate the theory.
Promotion of activities aimed at the observation, reflection and debate of the artistic phenomenon.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Art;
Emotion;
Universality;
Contemporaneidade;
Cultural Identity.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography