San Marino Scuola Secondaria di Primo Grado Syllabus - Arte e Comunicazione Visiva

Arte e Comunicazione Visiva

This course aims to enhance students' abilities to express and communicate creatively and interact critically with various art and visual communication languages. It fosters personal aesthetic sensibilities and attentiveness towards environmental and cultural heritage, particularly San Marino's. The curriculum emphasizes progressively mastering visual communication languages and developing students' aesthetic, artistic, and cultural awareness.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Creativity and Expression:
• Express and communicate creatively and independently, applying visual language rules and using expressive techniques and codes effectively.
• Design and create various visual texts, effectively using static and dynamic images and multimedia language.
• Techniques:
• Demonstrate interest in technical research. Experiment with increasingly complex and refined tools and procedures chosen according to their expressive project.
• Perception and Observation:
• Analyze reality as a "text," identifying significant signs and their relationships, drawing on prior knowledge or acquiring it through targeted study.
• Use specific vocabulary to describe observed aspects and share emotional and aesthetic reactions to artworks, cultural heritage, and various images.
• Reading Visual Texts:
• Read, understand, and interpret the meanings of static and dynamic images, including audiovisual and multimedia, demonstrating mastery of visual code elements.
• Analyze artworks, relating them to their historical and cultural contexts, interpreting their meaning by reflecting on expressive, symbolic, technical, and aesthetic aspects, and expressing personal judgments.
• Recognize the role of artworks in representing the values of their cultural belonging and compare symbolic and aesthetic aspects of different cultures.
• Cultural Heritage:
• Understand the main artistic and cultural assets in San Marino, comprehend their value as a common good, and demonstrate sensitivity for their protection and conservation.
• Recognize the cultural value of images, works, and cultural objects produced internationally.

Skills and Knowledge

• Creativity and Expression:
• Independently design creative works, drawing inspiration from the study of art and visual communication.
• Creatively rework various visual materials to produce new images, choosing the most suitable techniques and languages, also integrated with other disciplines or acquired in extracurricular contexts.
• Techniques:
• Experiment with graphic, plastic, pictorial, and digital techniques.
• Use specific digital applications to create texts with visual content.
• Perception and Observation:
• Acquire a method for systematically observing visual texts, adaptable to different contexts.
• Carry out targeted assignments for selective and analytical observation.
• Use appropriate vocabulary to describe the formal and aesthetic elements identified through observation.
• Reading Visual Texts:
• Analyze and interpret an image or artwork, relating it to the essential elements of its historical and cultural context.
• Observe and describe with specific terms the formal and aesthetic elements of an image.
• Identify the characteristics of visual communication in different areas (art, advertising, information, entertainment...).
• Cultural Heritage:
• Know the cultural and environmental heritage present in San Marino and be able to identify its aesthetic, historical, and social values.
• Recognize, protect, and enhance international cultural heritage.

Methodology

The laboratory methodology is fundamental to the discipline, both for creative production and for reading images and studying art. The laboratory is where students can engage with manual skills and give shape to their inner world. Through reading visual texts, they will be stimulated to observe, cooperate, and engage in peer discussions. Exhibitions of student work are organized throughout the year to showcase their creative expression. The didactic approach alternates between moments of fruition and production:

• Production → Fruition: Activity begins with a laboratory experience and concludes with an interpretative reading of the artistic text.
• Fruition → Production: Starting from an interpretative reading of a work or the analysis of a cultural context, a visual work is produced.