Abstract
Space and time coordinates are two key parameters in our construction as cultural and social beings. They provide us with reference points in the creation of artistic images with full symbolic significance. With the aim of reflecting on pictorial space, an exercise was designed for second year undergraduate students at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Vigo (Spain). This exercise, conducted under the subject Space-Time Processes, consisted in the student’s election of a single pictorial artwork from the history of art in order to subsequently carry out a pictorial intervention involving a dialogue with the space portrayed in the original artwork. From a qualitative methodological approach, an analysis of three cases was undertaken. This proposal promotes a type of active learning that lets the students take centre stage on the teaching-learning process, where they confront image comprehension as a group of visual and constructive codes loaded with meaning.
Highlights
Space and time coordinates are two key parameters in our construction as cultural and social beings
In order to apprehend space built upon perspective, it is necessary to understand how that spatial situation was produced and what it meant in relation to humanistic culture
An Approach to the Understanding of Pictorial Space: A Methodological Proposal Based on Three Case Studies
Summary
Space and time coordinates are two key parameters in our construction as cultural and social beings. The image is gradually shaped through the overlapping of those colour stains, always investigating its flat condition This gave way to methods that disregarded the mathematical accuracy of perspective in order to emphasise chromaticism, time within the painting and breakups in the relationship between figure and background. The two-dimensional nature of the canvas is a main concern, leaving aside the fiction implied by three-dimensional representations of reality Experimentations on this matter during the Avant-Garde will coexist with the culturally accepted perspective system that articulates our way of looking at and representing space. This whole spatial conception belongs to the Enlightenment with man’s reason trying to apprehend worldly space by means of his knowledge systems. Establishing a dialogue with historical masters of our visual culture entails an exercise on sensibility, listening, understanding and articulation of pictorial space
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