A expografia como possibilidade de aprendizagem em artes visuais: Coordenadas abstratas e Teoria do Infinito 2

Abstract

The contextualization of art and geometry in students’ everyday lives show their various applications in most sciences, becoming an essential subject for the mathematical and artistic development of these individuals and for promoting scientific research. It encourages them questioning, the search for answers, inductive thinking, and deductive logical reasoning. Through the analysis of diagnostic geometry assessments of students from upper elementary (Fundamental II) and high school levels, it became necessary to reduce the gap between theory and practice in this subject, enjoying Art as a partner. This way, the Object Hexaedrum and the exhibitions Coordenadas Abstratas and Teoria do Infinito 2, both enjoyable and innovative teaching-learning resources, aimed to foster the development of essential skills for understanding art and geometry efficiently. The students observe not only artwork but also the world around them with a more critical and insightful perspective becoming natural. Throughout the entire process, expository and dialogued classes were developed using the Hexaedrum, along with observations, research, applications, hands-on practice, workshops, seminars, discussions on cross-curricular themes, experiments with painting techniques, and color mixing using different paints. These led to the creation of oil on canvas, watercolor, installations, gouache on canvas, monotype prints, engraving, light and shadow experiments, sculptures, painted tetrahedrons, artworks made from electronic waste, drawings, pop art, individual and collective canvases, mosaics, stained glass, wheatpaste posters (lambe-lambe), papier-mâché masks, abstract art, and also calculations of perimeter, area, and volume of the painting supports. The geometric representation in the students’ canvases and sculptures enabled the learning of geometric concepts such as points, line, plane, symmetry, curves, angles, parallel lines, oblique and perpendicular intersections, skew lines, coplanar elements, positions between planes, trigonometry, and other geometric definitions, forms, and colors through the development of each student's artistic sensitivity. During a cultural moment inside and outside the school, collective exhibitions took place, and artwork was added to the school’s collection with the aim of valuing the students' work and beautifying the learning environment. The project was fully and successfully implemented. Upon evaluating student and school community acceptance, it was confirmed that all goals were achieved, as evidenced by the students’ dedication and the care with which their artwork took on the desired forms and colors. This work describes the students’ artistic experiences at all stages of the creation of artworks and exhibition design: planning, sketching, creation, definition of artistic techniques, choice of color mixing methods, textures and application of light and shadow, curatorship, typologies, layout, surfaces, scales, and lighting.