Fine Art

Bachelor’s Programme

The programme in Fine Arts as a consolidated identity (ESAD.CR has been teaching Visual Arts for 30 years), differentiated and recognised by the artistic world.

This undergraduated is inserted in a school that is a national (and international) reference, having already been included in the Domus 100 Best Design Schools for several consecutive years. The school is a very plural and dynamic creative ecosystem, with degrees and masters in all areas of design, in sound and image, in theatre and in programming and cultural production.

Programme Coordinator

Célia de Melo Bragança
celia.braganca@ipleiria.pt

Reference

9007

School

Arts and Design

City

Caldas da Rainha

Language

Portuguese

Type

Morning & Afternoon

Length

6 Semesters

Vacancies

General contingent: 50
International student contingent: 1

DGES certification

Link to Registration

Objectives

Programme

To train professionals in the field of artistic creation in its various dimensions (both in the traditional media and in the new media), providing graduates with a capacity for problematization, criticism and experimentation, within the scope of the definition of an individual artistic project

Study area
Architecture, Fine Arts and Design

Study Plan

ECTS: 180

1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year

1st Year
ID	Name	Semester	ECTS	Length
	Fine Arts and New Media I	1st Semester	9	120 h
	Drawing I	1st Semester	6	60 h
	Art and Culture: from Greece to Middle Ages	1st Semester	3	45 h
	Art and Art Object I	1st Semester	3	45 h
	Electives TP – 1	1st Semester	6	60 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. TP: Theoretical and practical
	Electives T – 1	1st Semester	3	45 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. T: Theoretical
9007207	Fine Arts and New Media II	2nd Semester	9	120 h
9007208	Drawing II	2nd Semester	6	60 h
9007209	Modern Age: from Renaissance to the Romantic Period	2nd Semester	3	45 h
9007210	Art and Art Object II	2nd Semester	3	45 h
	Electives TP – 2	2nd Semester	6	60 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. TP: Theoretical and practical
	Electives T – 2	2nd Semester	3	45 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. T: Theoretical

2nd Year
ID	Name	Semester	ECTS	Length
9007213	Fine Arts Project I	1st Semester	9	120 h
9007214	Advanced Drawing	1st Semester	6	60 h

	Modernisms and Avant-gardes	1st Semester	3	45 h
B1 Modernity, Modernism and the Avant-Garde B2 The Concept of Modernity B3 The Concept of Modernism B4 The Concept of Avant-garde: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Politics B5 The Modern Movements in the Early Twentieth Century B6 Impressionism B7 Expressionism B8 Cubism B9 Dadaism and its various centres of radiation B10 Surrealism B11 Abstraction, different understandings B12 Italian Futurism B13 The Russian Avant-garde B14 Limits and sunset of the Avant-garde
	Electives TP – 3 a)	1st Semester	6	60 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. TP: Theoretical and practical
	Electives TP – 3 b)	1st Semester	6	60 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. TP: Theoretical and practical
9007218	Fine Arts Project II	2nd Semester	9	120 h
9007219	Drawing Project	2nd Semester	6	60 h
	Contemporary Art Introduction	2nd Semester	3	45 h
B1. The mass society in the mirror: “Pop” art B2. From the wall to the floor: minimalism and a new paradigm B3. Occupying space: the installation and its origins B4. “When attitudes become form”: conceptualism and dematerialization of the work of art B5. The emergence of language in the plastic arts: from the 60s to the present B6. The art outside of itself: “Land Art”, Performance and “Body art B7. Photography and video in Contemporary Art B8. The Post-Modern Condition B9. The Contemporary: in search of a definition B9. The Contemporary: in search of a definition
	Electives TP – 4 a)	2nd Semester	6	60 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. TP: Theoretical and practical
	Electives TP – 4 b)	2nd Semester	6	60 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. TP: Theoretical and practical

3rd Year
ID	Name	Semester	ECTS	Length
9007223	Advanced Fine Arts Project I	1st Semester	12	120 h
	Drawing Laboratory	1st Semester	6	60 h
Drawing Laboratory proposes a higher level of problematisation of drawing, dealing with some of its issues more specifically associated to artistic drawing. The work will focus on the development of the drawing process itself, often assuming a structurally tutorial nature – in parallel with the other pedagogical actions defined in the curricular unit programme. The pedagogical contents in the course of this curricular unit focus on: B1. A participatory and comparative experimentation on the visual matter that constitutes, in its diverse disciplinary and technical manifestations, the subject of plastic production as an autonomous discipline. B2. The implementation of a sustained path, understanding the drawing as a practice that is workshop but also experimental power of response to a plastic intentionality. B3. An understanding of what drawing contains as contingent, but also as constructed/structured.
	Art and Thinking I	1st Semester	3	45 h
A.First movement – Concepts and images for an aesthetics of contemporary art. Station 1. Identity, community, otherness. Station 2. Place, space, spirituality. Station 3. Power, Politics, Democracy. Station 4: Protest, resistance, insurrection. Station 5: Research, experimentation, project. Station 6: Consumerism, entertainment, capitalism. Station 7: Game, chance, tragic. Station 8: Humour, irony, deconstruction. B. Second movement – Texts and documents for a politics of contemporary art. Station 9: Situation: localized action, public space and significant gestures. Station 10: Participation: relational aesthetics, contextual art and social activism. Station 11: Ethics: sharing the sensitive, ecopolitical critique of necro-capitalism. Station 12. Utopia: ecological transition, utopian imaginary and critical alternatives.
	Electives TP – 5	1st Semester	6	60 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. TP: Theoretical and practical
	Electives T – 5	1st Semester	3	45 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. T: Theoretical
9007228	Advanced Fine Arts Project II	2nd Semester	12	120 h
	Creation and Cultural Communication	2nd Semester	6	60 h
B1. Design a Portfolio in digital format and physical support B2. Register, select and organize documentation of the work done for portfolio B3. Identifying and cataloguing artistic works B4. Preparing synopses about the artistic path, a work and/or an event. B5. Write a biographical note and CV. B6. Consideration of the graphic and literary conception of a Portfolio from the artist’s point of view B7. Designing and realizing a 3D model of an artistic project and its architectural / landscape exhibition context B8. Adapting the place for a work / an exhibition / an event B9. Writing the Descriptive Memory of a project B10. Design different exhibition solutions B11. Make a public presentation / publication: physical and online presentation devices, including digital communication tools that apply to the creation of a website B12.Creating proposals to artistic residency programs and or grants, appropriate to the context of the finalist students.
	Art and Thinking II	2nd Semester	3	45 h
A.First movement – Concepts and images for an aesthetics of contemporary art. Station 1. Identity, community, otherness. Station 2. Place, space, spirituality. Station 3:Power, Politics, Democracy. Station 4: Protest, resistance, insurrection. Station 5: Research, experimentation, project. Station 6: Consumerism, entertainment, capitalism. Station 7: Game, chance, tragic. Station 8: Humour, irony, deconstruction. B. Second movement – Texts and documents for a politics of contemporary art. Station 9: Situation: localized action, public space and significant gestures. Station 10: Participation: relational aesthetics, contextual art and social activism. Station 11: Ethics: sharing the sensitive, ecopolitical critique of necro-capitalism. Station 12. Utopia: ecological transition, utopian imaginary and critical alternatives.
	Electives TP – 6	2nd Semester	6	60 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution. TP: Theoretical and practical
	Electives T – 6	2nd Semester	3	45 h
a) Approved by the statutorily competent scientific body of the higher education institution.. T: Theoretical

Entry Requirements

For further information about international students’ applications,
please see International Applicants
or contact the International Students’ Office by email at: estudante.internacional@ipleiria.pt

Accreditation

State: Accredited
Number of years of accreditation: 6
Publication date: 05-04-2017
Accreditation A3ES

Application Fee

60€

Enrolment Fee

General contingent: 30€
International student contingent: 100€

Tuition Fee

General contingent: 697€
International student contingent: 3000€