IPLUSO 12709

Art and Nature

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  This course aims to consolidate students' design autonomy in the relationship between art and nature through the practice of landscape, botanical, and land art drawing, promoting experimentation with natural materials, ecological awareness, and critical reflection on the poetics and political dimension of natural space.
• ProgramaProgramme

  The UC explores artistic responses to the poetics of natural space and environmental sustainability. It focuses on the web of art's interrelations with physical, biological, cultural, political and historical aspects of ecological systems. It questions the man-nature relationship in three points: place, incorporation/walking and materiality. Module I: . Observation design of plant and geological elements; . Expressive interpretation of plant morphology; . Formal and material exploration of elements associated with natural forces such as wind, water or sunlight. Module II: . Observation techniques and representation of landscape design; . Creation and exploitation of natural scribing instruments, . Study and use of natural pigments; . Field notebook; . Drawing associated with the Theory of Drift and Guy Debord's psychogeography; . Drawing as a visual essay linked to the poetics of the place.
• ObjectivosObjectives

  This CU aims at empowering students' procedural and design sense applied to the relationship between art and nature. Based on the artistic legacy linked to landscape and botanical design and land art, this theoretical-practical CU develops, through the proposed exercises, the capacity for experimentation, intellectual curiosity, ecological awareness and attentiveness to the poetics of the place, leading to a critical attitude demanding within artistic practice and culture. Goals: . Enable students with practical knowledge of representing landscapes, botanical and geological elements; . Deepen drawing techniques and instruments in outer space; . Exploring natural/non-industrialized scribing instruments and active media (such as pigments); . Establish relationships between the poetic and/or political dimension of the natural space and the plastic properties of the materials in that same place; . Develop creative skills and found visual work involved in the theme of nature.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  . Bachelard, G. (2012). A Água e os Sonhos - Ensaio sobre a Imaginação da Matéria. Martins Fontes. . Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press. . Carneiro, A. (2015) Alberto Carneiro: Árvores, Flores e Frutos do Meu Jardim. Sistema Solar - Documenta. . Civardi, Giovanni (2021). Drawing- A Complete Guide: Nature. Search Press. . Gadanho, P. (2020). Sob Influência: Arte e Natureza Agora. Stellae* Revista de Arte, 1(1). . Gil, J. (2005). A imagem nua e as pequenas perceções: estética e metafenomenologia. Relógio d' Água. . Kastner, J. (1998). Land and Environmental Art. Phaidon Press. . Tavares, G. M. (2013). Atlas do Corpo e da Imaginação. Editorial Caminho. . Tufnell, B. (2019). In Land: Writings Around Land Art and its Legacies. Zero Books. . Wallis, C. (2017). Stones, Clouds, Miles: A Richard Long Reader. Ridinghouse. . Weintraub, L. (2012). To life!: Eco art in pursuit of a sustainable planet. University of California Press.
• MetodologiaMethodology

  Presentation of exercises with demonstration of examples and methodologies; critical analysis at the end of classes on all the work done. Experimentation and reflection on drawing and plastic expression are promoted along with a conceptual approach to the theme of nature. Guidance is continuous and individualized. The moments of evaluation are carried out through an exhibition of the set of works carried out. The continuous use of the Field Notebook is promoted . The morphological study of plants and geological elements comes along with classes with real models, followed by the expressive exploration of forms in different active environments. . Visits to green spaces are promoted and, at the same time, each student will have autonomy to use their own places as a reference; . The landscape is approached from a quick sketch to an elaborate drawing through different perspective processes; . Gradually, students are led to reflect on the place.
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  5
• NaturezaNature

  Optional
• EstágioInternship

  Não