ARTISTIC EDUCATION AS CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF VISUAL CULTURE IN FERNANDO HERNANDEZ

• Main Author: Silvana Andrea Mejía Echeverri
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional 2009-05-01
• Series: Pensamiento Palabra y Obra
• Subjects: Educación Artística; Fernando Hernández; Cultura Visual; formación categorial; concepción de arte; concepción de sujeto.
• Online Access: http://revistas.pedagogica.edu.co/index.php/revistafba/article/view/87

This paper presents a proposal by Fernando Hernandez (Spain, University of Barcelona), intending to think of visual arts education from the viewpoint of some non-usual narratives and metaphors related to art in a broad sense, as part of the cultural production of societies (the so-called “visual culture”). We believe that this innovative proposal involves characteristics of the theory of categorical education (from a didactic assessment of its theoretical approaches), and provides a new spot from which to think about artistic education. This attempt calls for reflection on what the content of this particular area means to the author, as well as on what the student’s formation is meant to be (strategies of understanding visual representations). So, this article intends to bring public a new proposal for artistic education, framed in the current theories within the realm of visual culture studies, as an option to think anew the role that teaching contents and intentions may bring in the school.