TITLE:
An Approach to the Understanding of Pictorial Space: A Methodological Proposal Based on Three Case Studies
AUTHORS:
Juan Carlos Meana
KEYWORDS:
Space, Pictorial Creation, Perspective, Artistic Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.7 No.14,
August
24,
2016
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.