Class Drawing III

In this course unit, students experiment with creating a graphic language that explores abstraction and the unrecognizable, understood as ways of constructing an autonomous visual discourse detached from figuration.

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1. The Unrecognizable: Historical and contemporary framing, abstraction, and other strategies for transforming the image in the history of art, from its antecedents to recent developments. 2. Strategies and fundamentals of graphic expression: Point, line, stain, gesture, rhythm, repetition, fragmentation, overlapping, scale, and other operations of image transformation. 3. Exercise 1 - The Unrecognizable: Exploration of image transformation processes based on references from cinematographic sources or other sources of visual culture. Creation of an artist's book with standardized dimensions, defined by the teacher. 4. Exercise 2 - Authorial Project: Development of an autonomous visual language, exploring a system of optical elements unrelated to the real world. Individual project to be defined between each student and the teacher.

Autonomy and experimentation are required in artistic research, with continuous tutorial support. Crossing disciplinary boundaries is encouraged through the use of references from cinema, visual culture, and other image observation and mediation devices, such as the microscope. The creation of original images forms the basis of research and graphic development, with the process regularly monitored by the teacher through the presentation and discussion of relevant references.

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