Algo a se encontrar a pintura de observação como experiência artística e dispositivo de reflexão no ensino de arte

Abstract

The following text refers to the Final Paper, made under orientation of Prof. Dr. Alice de Fátima Martins, for the degree in Visual Arts, in the Visual Arts College, at Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG. Through an exploratory qualitative research, it’s raised some reflexions about the importance of the artistic practice of observation painting, in the context of Contemporary Art Teaching. This practice is wide and evolves conceptual and technical variations, although it keeps in common the real time observation of the painting motif. In this research, it is explored the concept of art as experience, from John Dewey, to highlight how the final piece of the artistic production isn’t the central point of the creation in itself. This, in turn, may be understood as an artistic footprint, from a wide range of experiences, that encompass previous, arising, and later processes of the production. Through a historical search of some of the main genres of observation painting, as well as through personal stories, it is possible to observe the foundations of the research. In addition to this, the discussion about the concept of landscape is deepened, analysing the definitions of Michel Collot to explain how the observation painting is an exchange between the interior and exterior, the subjective and objective. So that to understand how it is the landscape who captures the artist, not the other way around. In the end, there is the construction of an educational project that involves the practice of observation painting for the basic education network, considering the aesthetic experience of Dewey as a foundation for a deep, critical and connected to students life’ education.