Author(s): Cardoso, Cristina Isabel Silvestre, 1962-
Date: 2015
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/22655
Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Subject(s): Delaunay, Robert, 1885-1941; Delaunay, Sonia, 1885-1979; Cardoso, Amadeo de Sousa, 1887-1918; Viana, Eduardo, 1881-1967; Albers, Josef, 1888-1976; Klee, Paul, 1879-1940; Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944; Educação artística; Educação visual; Teoria da cor; Cubismo; Orfismo; Obra de arte; Pintura; Educação Artística
Based on a didactic unit about Colour, this work was developed for a public group from an eighth grade school class. From this Visual Arts' work proposal, emphasis was given to the importance of Art Education on the global formation of the individual and the development of creativity and critical thinking skills, while studying some of the well-known national and international modern artists. It was also considered a brief study of the Portuguese History of Art Education, mainly exploring drawing teaching methods. The legal framework was mentioned as an extra component for the understanding of Art Education reality nowadays. The study was concluded with an analysis of the Arts' Curriculum followed by the project method presentation, considering and introducing the theory developed by the author Bruno Munari, as a key-method of creativity development in school environment. The colour theories from Newton, Goethe, Munsell, Itten, Kandinsky, Klee and Albers are mentioned in this study, being the four last authors mentioned related as Bauhaus teachers. The Orphism is also introduced, as well as the artists’ lifes and art work: Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and Eduardo Viana. In terms of historical context, the work focus the period of time Delaunay couple lived in Portugal, for being the time they had developed art projects together with the other two artists mentioned above. The work developed with the eighth grade classroom is presented and mentioned as the result of the study, that is concluded with a project based on the art work of the four modern artists already mentioned, proving this kind of educational art projects allows the students to develop new skills in terms of arts and culture knowledge as well as opens new paths in their education
