This document provides details on a 1 lesson art project for upper secondary students. The objectives are for students to recreate fragments of works by two contemporary Portuguese painters, explore visual language concepts, and develop aesthetic sensibility. Students will observe and analyze selected figurative and abstract fragments, then compose a new piece incorporating elements from both using provided materials like cardboard and pastels. They will work at tables and present their compositions on a collective panel to be assessed based on their process and final product.

1. Unit: Visual Language
Class: / Level: Upper secondary
Subjects: / Language: / Teachers: Senses/ English/ Ana Teresa Sousa,
Lina Bolas
Number of lessons: 1
Objectives / Goals / Competences:
- Know two contemporary Portuguese painters and creatively recreate a fragment of two of
their works;
- Addressing structural concepts of visual language, own modes of expression and
communication;
- Explore the potential of design in the art project;
- Take advantage of the relationship between the different senses (sight, touch and hearing) the
realization of a art project;
- Develop the aesthetic sensibility.
Content
Language/Terminology (words and
phrases)
 Visual language
 Visual elements
 Graphic procedures
 Graphics tests
Syntax - Domains Visual language:
- Form
- Texture
- Color;
Procedures:
Trait: nature and character (intensity,
incision, texturing, thickness, grading,
minimum and maximum range of motion,
gesture)
Spot: nature and character (shape, texture,
density, transparency, color, tone, gradation)
Mixed: combinations of line and spot;
Testing / analysis processes: study forms;
Testing / synthesis processes: Graphical
processing
Process
Tasks:
1st- Starting point
. Projecting images on two contemporary artists.
Types of interaction:
Tables organized in U.

2. Contextualize style, time, technical ... (an
information sheet will be provided)
2nd working Sequence
1. Select two fragments, a figurative character
and other abstract, two works of these artists;
2. Observe the two fragments with respect to
shapes, type of lines, spots, colours, textures ...
3. From the data media, cardstock with different
colours, choose one to make a composition in
which various elements are articulated the two
fragments observed;
4. Create a collective panel with the
compositions obtained.
In the center a table with materials.
Students moving to the central table to
remove two fragments and the necessary
materials.
Students perform the composition in place
(visual and tactile stimuli), with background
music (auditory stimuli).
In the end, students create a collective
panel.
Resources / Materials
Resources:
- Computer, video projector, internet
Supports and materials:
- black, grey and white cardboard
- pencils of different hardnesses ( 5B, 6B, 7B)
- Oil Pastel, colored pencils
- X-atc
Assessment
Handling of the case which led to the product and the collective panel.