A arte contemporânea na educação visual: um estudo no Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura

Abstract

The present study was carried out at the Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura, in which I investigated the values ​​and meanings associated with the production of contemporary art works by students. The work shows how in the institute our target group, not only learn subjects about art and culture, but also seek to explore the materials and techniques, consist of obtaining the result that they wanted so much, using whatever material is at their disposal. However, it is important to note that the study also illustrates that students explore contemporary art as a product that results from an intelligence, using locally available materials as a base. In such a way that, some installations that they make are considered as works of art. Thus, the work was based on data collection at the Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura, where the study site and its art productions were described. Various methods were used, such as a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and informal conversations. Thus, the issue of values ​​and meanings associated with the production of works of contemporary art, has been analyzed from two approaches. Since, on the one hand, the first approach argues that the relations of values ​​and meanings for the production of contemporary art works are learned from an aesthetic framework, because the trends of the modern world have been configured in an aesthetic way. On the other hand, the second approach argues that each individual is guided by his own interests in the search for understanding the world, using the various cognitive tools provided by the culture in which he lives. However, the combination of these two approaches becomes relevant in this study as they emphasize aspects related to subjectivity and lived experience, allowing that students respond to their demands as thinking beings. However, the data collected in the field allowed us to conclude that, our target group has produced works of contemporary art at the expense of the teachers and by the demands of the institute's management, who affirm that the students qualified to make contemporary art are those of the Visual arts. Since, in this conception, there is a categorization among the different courses, andconsequently, among the various students. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)