Reflexões sobre uma experiência estética com arte contemporânea: possibilidades educativas na formação de professores em artes visuais

Abstract

This work describes an aesthetic experiment with students in the second year of the Visual Arts course at the State University of Ponta Grossa (PR) in 2004. Its central issue is: Could a certain practice of familiarization and production with contemporary art interfere in students’ conceptions and practices regarding art and the teaching of art? The focus of this proposal was the 26th International Bienal in São Paulo. Some initial inquiries guided the study, due to these students’ school background: how did their contact with art, mainly the contemporary one, develop? Which aesthetic processes have they been through? Could their conceptions and practice change with the teacher’s intervention? The reflections developed during the research time aimed at surveying concepts and practices that remain and the ones that change, as well as the possibility of inserting contemporary art as one of the subjects taught. The formulations of the dialectical materialism were used as theoretical-methodological reference in order to better understand the relations between art and society, art in the capitalist society and the government policies for the teaching of art in Brazil. The action-research was used as a methodological strategy so that an aesthetic experiment could be put into practice and from these possibilities of education and training of Visual Arts teachers could be extracted.