Fee 10 x 195€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance)

Admission No requirements. Informative interview.

Program
First level of a 3-year regular programme (that allows for further development through application to Individual Project and/or Advanced Course in Fine Arts). School year is divided in two semesters. Exceptionally, students may enter the year’s course in the second semester (through interview).
The course is structured around a series of training exercises exploring the technical and expressive capacities of the student by approaching different techniques and themes from the Painting tradition. The making of an individual, consistent and diversified portfolio is the central objective of this level.

Disciplines

• Art History/Theory (100 credits)
• Live Model - The fragmented body
• Live Model - Drawing in Painting / The Painting of Skin Colour
• Live Model - Around the Portrait
• Live Model - Measuring the Body
• Live Model Drawing
• Painting I

Fee 10 x 205€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance)

Admission Painting 1 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.

Program Level 2 of the Painting 3-year programme integrates Painting class training, Drawing workshops and courses in the History and Theory of Art. By the end of this programme the technical aspects of painting should already be handled proficiently and an overall individuality and consistency of the work is expected.

Disciplines

• Conversations on art
• Art History/Theory (100 credits)
• Themes on 20th century art
• Drawing at the Museum
• Drawing - One Thousand and One Nights
• Drawing Practice I
• Painting II

Fee 10 x 205€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance)

Admission Painting 2 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.

Program Level 3 promotes the individual dimension of the work and the students’ assessment of his/her own position facing the conditions of contemporary art practice. The development of the students’ analytical and critical capacities is given great emphasis.

Disciplines

• Art History/Theory (100 credits)
• Conversations on art
• Themes on 20th century art
• Drawing – the first ground
• In Transit (opportunistic drawing)
• Drawing – The model exposed
• Painting III

Notes At the end of Painting 3 the Certificate for the Plan of Basic Studies in Painting is issued. Option of further development through application to Individual Project, Advanced Course in Visual Arts, or other.

Price 4 x 94€ + 60€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.

Schedule Tuesdays from 18h to 21h

Type semestrial

Program Evening course focusing on the experimental aspects of Painting practice. Exercises of growing complexity aim at promoting a development of the participants’ creative potential and explore the more specific and personal dimensions of their work. Introduction to techniques and general approach to themes will follow closely the main orientation principles of (regular) day courses.

Notes The Evening Course in Drawing and Painting is structured in 3 different integrated levels. Level I – Similar to the 1st level of the regular (day) course in its general approach. Technical investigation and experimentation provide the basis upon which individual and personal characteristics will emerge in the students’ work. Level II – Development level. Emphasis on the student’s individual work. Level III – While participating in class by responding to specific exercises the student will also develop an individual project of his/her own all throughout the school year.

Teachers

• Ângelo Encarnação

Notes Other Options: Drawing + Painting (6h per week): Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00 Drawing + Painting + Life Drawing (8h per week): Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00 and Fridays from 18h30 to 20h30

Price 4 x 124,50€ + 60€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Admission Level 1: No requirements. By order of enrolment. Level 2 and 3: level 1 or 2 or equivalent training.

Schedule Tuesdays and Thursdays from 21h00 to 23h00

Type semestrial

Program Night course focusing on practical and thematic exercises with the objective of developing the participants’ capacities for observation, representation and expression. Experimentation with the materials used in drawing and painting (oil paint, India ink, gouache, charcoal, pastel, graphite, etc.). Exercises will approach in a structured way the relationships between drawing and painting, with recourse to various techniques. Specific aspects of the participants’ work will be valued, oriented and discussed with the teacher in class and in the evaluation sessions, leading to the constitution of an organized portfolio. The course will follow closely the main orientation principles of (regular) day courses. Simultaneous frequency of this course and the Evening Course in Live Model Drawing is encouraged.

Notes The Evening Course in Drawing and Painting is structured in 3 different integrated levels. Level I – Similar to the 1st level of the regular (day) course in its general approach. Technical investigation and experimentation provide the basis upon which individual and personal characteristics will emerge in the students’ work. Level II – Development level. Emphasis on the student’s individual work. Level III – While participating in class by responding to specific exercises the student will also develop an individual project of his/her own all throughout the school year.

Teachers

• João Miguéis
• André Almeida e Sousa

Notes Other options: Drawing + Painting + Live Model (6h per week)

Price 150€ + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Schedule Sábado das 10h30 às 13h00

Type occasional

Teachers

• João Miguéis
• João Catarino

Price 4 x 94€ + 60€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.

Schedule Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18h to 21h

Type semestrial

Program Evening course focusing on the experimental aspects of Painting practice. Exercises of growing complexity aim at promoting a development of the participants’ creative potential and explore the more specific and personal dimensions of their work. Introduction to techniques and general approach to themes will follow closely the main orientation principles of (regular) day courses.

Notes The Evening Course in Drawing and Painting is structured in 3 different integrated levels. Level I – Similar to the 1st level of the regular (day) course in its general approach. Technical investigation and experimentation provide the basis upon which individual and personal characteristics will emerge in the students’ work. Level II – Development level. Emphasis on the student’s individual work. Level III – While participating in class by responding to specific exercises the student will also develop an individual project of his/her own all throughout the school year.

Teachers

• Ângelo Encarnação

Notes Other Options: Drawing + Painting (6h per week): Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00 Drawing + ainting + Life Drawing (8h per week): Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00 and Fridays from 18h30 to 20h30

Price 4 x 124,50€ + 60€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)

Admission Level 1: No requirements. By order of enrolment. Level 2 and 3: level 1 or 2 or equivalent training.

Schedule Tuesdays and Thursdays from 21h00 to 23h00

Type semestrial

Program Night course focusing on practical and thematic exercises with the objective of developing the participants’ capacities for observation, representation and expression. Experimentation with the materials used in drawing and painting (oil paint, India ink, gouache, charcoal, pastel, graphite, etc.). Exercises will approach in a structured way the relationships between drawing and painting, with recourse to various techniques. Specific aspects of the participants’ work will be valued, oriented and discussed with the teacher in class and in the evaluation sessions, leading to the constitution of an organized portfolio. The course will follow closely the main orientation principles of (regular) day courses. Simultaneous frequency of this course and the Evening Course in Live Model Drawing is encouraged.

Notes The Evening Course in Drawing and Painting is structured in 3 different integrated levels: Level I – Similar to the 1st level of the regular (day) course in its general approach. Technical investigation and experimentation provide the basis upon which individual and personal characteristics will emerge in the students’ work. Level II – Development level. Emphasis on the student’s individual work. Level III – While participating in class by responding to specific exercises the student will also develop an individual project of his/her own all throughout the school year.

Teachers

• João Miguéis
• André Almeida e Sousa

Notes Other options: Drawing + Painting + Live Model (6h per week)