ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
1. To know the different materials used to make works of art, as well as their physical-chemical, plastic and expressive particularities.
2. Become familiar with the tools, machines and instruments used to produce works of art, as well as their evolution within the technological and socio-economic progress in the History of Art.
3. To analyze the techniques and procedures used in the production of artistic objects through different languages, in all their phases of preparation, execution and conservation.
4. To know the historical evolution of the different technical procedures and their study according to the conditions of the moment in which they were developed, as well as their cultural and spatial context.
5. To acquire a specific vocabulary and fundamentals of descriptive language of analysis typical of an art historian.
THEME 1: Introduction to artistic techniques
1. 1. The importance of technical procedures in the History of Art
1. 2. The social consideration of the artist
1. 3. The labor structure: the guilds
1. 4. Institutionalization and division: the Academies
1. 5. Technical treatises
THEME 2: Drawing and illustration
2. 1. Drawing as a previous step to the work and drawing as a work
2. 2. Components: supports and materials
2. 3. Techniques and instruments
2. 4. The new paradigm: from paper to digital
THEME 3: Painting
3. 1. The supports
3. 2. The components of the pictorial matter: pigment, binder, solvent
3. 3. The fresco
3. 4. Encaustic
3. 5. Tempera on board
3. 6. Oil on canvas
3. 7. Acrylic
3. 8. Instruments
THEME 4: Engraving
4. 1. Graphic arts and reproducibility
4. 2. Components: support, matrix, torculus
4. 3. Woodcut and its variants
4. 4. Chalcography and its variants
4. 5. Lithography
4. 6. Screen printing
THEME 5: The sculpture
5. 1. Art in three dimensions
5. 2. Clay, plaster and wax: molding and casting
5. 3. - Metal: Merged
5. 4. Stone: sculpted
5. 5. Wood: carving
5. 6. The Spanish paradigmatic case: imagery and altarpieces
THEME 6: Silverware
6. 1. Materials, grades and caratage
6. 2. The marking system
6. 3. The rehearsals of the material
6. 4. Tools and techniques
6. 5. Ornamental techniques
THEME 7: Architecture
7. 1. Knowing how to read a building: parts and constructive elements
7. 2. Materials, gear and binders
7. 3. Ornamental and renovation techniques
7. 4. Types
7. 5. Historical overview
THEME 8: Other arts
8. 1. Collage, lighting, binding, printing, upholstery, ceramics, eboraria, mosaic, tiling, enamel, blown glass, stained glass, joinery, etc.
THEME 9: Contemporary techniques
9. 1. Neworother languages: dripping, pouring, ebru, airbrush, tattoo, videogames, graffiti, etc.
9. 2. The subversion of material and support: body performance, land art, arte povera, art brut, etc.
Basic
ANGOSTO, D., BERNARDEZ, C., FERNANDEZ, B. & LLORENTE, A. (2005). Las técnicas artísticas. Madrid: Akal.
ALEGRE CARVAJAL, E., TUSELL GARCÍA, G. & LOPEZ DÍAZ, J. (2011). Técnicas y medios artísticos. Madrid: Editora Universitaria Ramón Areces.
FATÁS, G. & BORRAS GUALIS, G. (1988). Diccionario de términos de Arte y elementos de Arqueología, Heráldica y Numismática. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
FERNÁNDEZ ARENAS, J. (1996). Introducción a la conservación del patrimonio y a las técnicas artísticas. Barcelona: Ariel.
FUGA, A. (2004). Técnicas y materiales del arte. Barcelona: Editorial Electa.
MALTESSE, C. (1993). Las técnicas artísticas. Madrid: Cátedra.
MAYER, R. (1985). Materiales y técnicas de arte. Madrid: Akal.
RIVERA BLANCO, J. (1990). Manual de técnicas artísticas. Madrid: Historia 16.
Specific
BAZZI, M. (1965). Enciclopedia de las técnicas pictóricas. Barcelona: Edición Noguer.
BONET CORREA, A. (coord) (1982). Historia de las artes aplicadas e industriales en España. Madrid: Cátedra.
DOERNER, M. (1977). Los materiales en pintura y su empleo en el arte. Barcelona: Reverté Ediciones.
ESTEBAN LORENTE, J. F., BORRAS GUALIS, G. & ALVARO ZAMORA, I. (1980). Introducción general al arte. Arquitectura, escultura, pintura, artes decorativas. Madrid: Istmo.
ESTEVE BOTEY, F. (1993). Historia del grabado. Madrid: Labor.
GARCÍA HOZ, V. (1996). Enseñanzas artísticas y técnicas. Madrid: Rialp.
HUERTAS TORREJÓN, M. (2016). Materiales, procedimientos y técnicas pictóricas. Madrid: Akal.
MULLER, W. e VOGEL, G. (1984). Atlas de arquitectura. Madrid: Alianza Atlas.
MUNARI, B. (1968). El arte como oficio. Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili.
PEDROLA, A. (1998). Materiales, procedimientos y técnicas pictóricas. Barcelona: Ariel.
SAURAS, J. (2003). La escultura y el oficio de escultor. Barcelona: Ediciones el Serbal.
WITTKOWER, R. (1991). La escultura: procesos y principios. Madrid: Alianza Forma.
General
1. To acquire skills for the development of instrumental and relevant learning: capacity for analysis, synthesis, organization and planning, problem solving, management and access to information, critical reasoning, autonomous learning and oral expression and writing.
2. To acquire skills related to the appreciation of the work of art: sensitivity to issues related to historical and cultural heritage, recognizing creativity, originality, transcendence and aesthetic values.
3. To develop skills to apply to the discipline of the History of Art the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), internet and its digital resources.
Specific
1. To acquire a systematic and integrated knowledge of artistic and construction techniques, with the ability to contextualize, analyze and differentiate each of them within their historical evolution, as well as their cultural and expresive particularities.
2. To distinguish and systematize the different tools, materials and procedures used in each of the artistic and construction techniques, knowing how to recognize them.
3. To know the vocabulary and fundamentals of specific language typical of the profession of art historian, applying it in oral expression and writing.
Taking into account that this is an extinct assignment, there will be no face-to-face classes, nor field practice. Students will be able to make use of the tutorials to obtain bibliography recommendations and materials, as well as to resolve all doubts regarding the contents.
The assessment will be carried out with a single exam that will have 100% of the grade. It will consist of a questionnaire of 50 multiple-choice questions (each scores 0.2, each scores 0.1 poorly). Results to be evaluated: Differentiation of artistic techniques and construction elements according to the criteria explained in the classrooms. To pass the subject, you will need to pass with a minimum score of 5/10. In case of suspension, the student must resubmit to the exam (with the same characteristics) marked in the extraordinary call for July.
Study and Activity Time: 150 hours.
For a good follow-up of the subject, it is essential to be motivated and work capacity. We recommend that the student consult the bibliography proposed in the program, and that he attends the tutorials whenever he needs it.
- Attention to diversity: Royal Legislative Decree 1/2013 of November 29th, which approves the “Consolidated Text of the General Law on the rights of people with disabilities and their social inclusion”, published in the BOE (December the 3rd, 2013) will be applied.
- In the event of academic fraud, as defined in article 42 of the Regulations establishing the rules of coexistence of the University of Santiago de Compostela and in accordance with the provisions of article 11. g) of the Law on University Coexistence, the sanctions provided for in the regulations will be applied. Premeditated behaviors aimed at falsifying the results of an exam or assignment include plagiarism and the non-consensual use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
Ana Perez Varela
- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- ana.perez.varela [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor