Abstract:

This proposal is the result of a range of experiences I have had throughout our teaching and research background. The most recent projects I have been involved in relate to art education and art, and draw on methodological approaches that understand artistic creation as a research tool (Art Based Research). On this occasion an idea is proposed that aligns with the core fundamentals of a/r/tography (Irwin, Springgay, 2008) – namely, research, training and artistic practice – under the integrative model of Arts-Based Educational Research (Barone, Eisner, 1997). To this end, we first propose, in the teaching context, strategies to identify the features in the Carmen Calvo’s work that might facilitate the learning of printmaking through visual arts. The various routes that are gradually constructed will make up a multiple and infinite whole with descriptions in which graphic concepts are developed using printmaking. The purpose of the project is to train the eye so as to change our perception of the art work; to imagine new visual dialogues; to invent narratives that modify this established order; or to seek out aesthetic relationships that link them together. From the research aspect, links are established between the concepts peculiar to the technique and the methodologies based on the visual arts. At the artistic level the images created reflect on the materials, the learning and the graphic concepts. With this project we aim to approach educational questions through non-text-based means and to offer new solutions. We also use formats taken from fiction, which are, in turn, a characteristic feature of artistic creations. Coherent with this project’s philosophy for the creation of proposals, we use research tools based on the visual arts (Roldán-Ramírez, Marín-Viadel, 2012, 2014, 2017) to propose and describe the learning and teaching processes of printmaking. In addition, we produce visual discourses that pose and respond to questions in different dimensions of education and whose work shows some of the aesthetic qualities that we consider to be related to these techniques.

Keywords:

Artist book, Carmen Calvo, Printmaking, Visual a/r/tography, Visual Arts based Educational Research.