Out of the classroom: Alternative Practices for teaching degree in Fine Arts

Abstract

Teaching practice in the context of Fine Arts offers a vast field of action given the interdisciplinary and globalizing character of the training. We focus on the technical and conceptual education of our students by encouraging sensorial perception in the context of landscape painting or in the interpretation of the human body through drawing and portrait. Our goal is to rationalize acquired knowledge and carry it through to artistic production. In this regard, working outside the classroom is crucial in order to experience and value the surroundings which very often turn into elements for aesthetic thought. In this article, we will describe certain activities which take place on several courses with the aim of establishing direct contact with nature, the city and its inhabitants. Alternative teaching resources which complete and improve the learning process of the students include painting and drawing workshops in the open air, daytrips and walks, interviews and contact with human elements of the city, and exhibitions of the students' work in public spaces.