The Ministry of Education recognized the Performing Arts course in 1979.
The training in Costume and Scene design enables designers and costume designers to work in the field of theatrical arts and various other artistic areas, such as cinema, television, advertising, fashion, and carnival. When completing the course, the undergraduate student can create stage design and costumes for theater, dance, performance, opera, Carnaval, fashion, television, cinema, and advertising.
The proposed curriculum seeks to balance and integrate the theoretical and practical fields in the training of these artists. Both concerning each discipline and with the overall structure of performing arts teaching.
It conducts a series of research and extension projects. They are configured as experimental and theoretical-practical integration laboratories, offering numerous possibilities for exploring the various modes and trends of creation within the performing arts.
The current curriculum
The current curriculum
The Imperial Academy of Fine Arts implemented The Sculpture Course and was incorporated and adapted to the requirements of the professional market. In 2011, after a curricular reform, it was renamed Visual Arts – Sculpture.
The course forms undergraduate students with artistic, conceptual, and technical competence to work with three-dimensional configuration languages in procedures that involve from clay to cybernetic virtual space.
The proposed curriculum aims to create a didactic-pedagogical structure suitable for the development of high-level professionals, involving practical and theoretical issues related to the production and diffusion of material cultural goods. Research and extension projects help in the formation of technical excellence regarding the production of visual arts in collaboration with related areas such as History and Art Criticism.
In 1971 the Interior Design Course was created from the unfolding of the old Decorative Arts course. Since the 1950s, the internationally known interior designer features interdisciplinary training as a graduate professional concerned with the functional specificity of interior spaces and the particularity of individuals or groups.
The course forms experts who can identify, research, and solve problems related to the quality of pre-existing environments, considering aspects of diverse nature related to environmental comfort and aesthetics, symbolic and practical functions.
The proposed curriculum seeks to gather art and technology under a specific cultural order, maintaining a commitment to the sustainable use of natural resources, ethical consumption, health, safety, and the diversity of human beings, working for accessibility at all levels.
The Landscape Composition Course was created in the early 1970s to cater to a growing number of architects who wanted to deepen knowledge in the field of landscaping.
It forms an undergraduate able to work in the development of projects in the urban environment, with technical, artistic, and natural knowledge, in an integrated way, reconciling the theories of analysis of external spaces, climate, environmental, aesthetic, and functional issues.
The proposed curriculum aims to enable students to work in the free spaces of a building, leading them to think, analyze and organize the production of these spaces in the city and designing them consciously and critically, from the residential locations to squares and urban parks. The course emphasizes the preservation of the environment with a view to comfort, well-being, human safety and, sustainable development based on the environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural characteristics of the intervention area.
In 2009 the Undergraduate Course in Visual Design Communication was implemented, from the old course of Industrial Design with the qualification in Visual Programming. It is part of the field of Graphic Design, offering comprehensive training that contemplates the technological alternatives for the formation of the future professional of this area.
It forms an undergraduate student with skills in the field of image design and creation. It has focused on updating the new paradigms of art and technology. The action field of the future professionals includes Graphic Design, Web Design, and Multimedia, Sequential and Narrative Illustration, among others.
The proposed curriculum encourages the formation of a professional who can exploit his or her talent with creativity and refined technique and who can work individually or in a team, with responsibility, ethics, respect, and knowledge.
The newest course from the School of Fine Arts, the Conservation and Restoration course (of Movable Cultural Goods), was created in 2009, following the general guidelines of the UFRJ Restructuring and Expansion Program, launched in December 2007.
It forms an undergraduate student who can conserve and restore the artistic and cultural heritage from the highest ethical and aesthetic values and in line with the latest trends in this field.
The proposed curriculum aims to create a didactic-pedagogical structure suitable for the formation of high-level professionals, balancing and integrating the theoretical and practical fields in the graduation of critical, reflexive, and autonomous conservators-restorers. It aims to carry out theoretical studies and research on the preservation of the fine arts in collaboration with related areas such as History and Art Criticism. Considering that heritage preservation involves the understanding and knowledge of the art market laws, curatorship practices for exhibitions and business management related to culture, and artistic language knowledge.
Recognized by Decree in 1979, the undergraduate degrees of Industrial Design had two distinct qualifications until 2009 when both Product Design and Visual Programming separated into two independent courses.
The students receive solid training in the field of Industrial Design, enabling them to evaluate and conceptualize user/object relations through mastery of design tools, two-dimensional technical representation, construction of physical and electronic models, and knowledge of industrial manufacturing processes.
The course syllabus is structured on the application of design methodologies, enabling the student to analyze and develop product design with an emphasis on functional, ergonomic, and aesthetic criteria. It conducts a range of research and extension projects related to formal concepts of industrial products through design methods that optimize their function, value, and appearance for the benefit of both the user and the manufacturer while aiming for sustainability.
The Undergraduate Printmaking Course is one of the founding courses of the School, thus completing 200 years in 2016. Over the years, it has undergone changes and adjustments, and its last curricular reform was in 1998.
It forms undergraduate students trained in different technical procedures of printmaking and printing. The professional in this area can work in the production of relief printmaking (woodcut, linoleogravure, zinc gravure, etc.), intaglio printmaking (etching, engraving, etc.) and lithographs (stone and metal), among others. They also work in artistic consulting, the graphics industry, art and illustration publishing, art criticism, etc.
The proposed curriculum content aims to create a didactic-pedagogical structure that balances and integrates the theoretical and practical fields. It is incorporated the knowledge of the different technical procedures of engraving and printing, its characteristics as a form of artistic expression, its instruments, and the study of the techniques and language of graphic processes.
In 2008 the Art History Undergraduate Course was created following the general guidelines of the UFRJ Restructuring and Expansion Program.
It forms undergraduate students able to work in areas that require a specialized workforce with historical and theoretical background in art, with understanding and curatorial practices for exhibitions and business management related to culture, and new artistic languages, such as digital media, among others. The professional can meet specific social demands related to their fields of knowledge, including advising public and private entities in the cultural, artistic, tourism fields, as well as future incursions into the teaching career supported by compatible training.
The course syllabus aims to consolidate studies and research on Brazilian art, not only concerning traditional fine arts – painting, printmaking, sculpture – but also to other fields such as Folk Art and regional and ethnic issues. Another differentiating element is the offer of disciplines in the so-called “decorative arts” involving the production of tapestry, jewelry, ceramics, and other artistic productions related or not to industrial manufactures.
The Artistic Education Undergraduate Course was created in 1979 and recognized in 1983. It has three qualifications: Fine Arts, Drawing, and Music, the latter being absorbed by the School of Music / UFRJ, in 2003.
Training in Fine Arts aims at the knowledge of artistic and technical languages and the use of various materials. The instruction in Drawing aims at the know-how of geometry (flat and projective) and its application to different techniques of graphic representation.
With both cultural (theoretical) and practical disciplines, the formation of each capacitation is a cast of subjects. They qualify the student for the development of research and action in their specific area. In their training, undergraduate receive classes from various departments of the School, being complemented with subjects offered by the Faculty of Education, the School of Music, and the Faculty of Letters.
The current curriculum
The current curriculum
The Painting Undergraduate Course, created in 1816, is one of the founding courses of the School of Fine Arts, having undergone three major renovations in recent years, in 1998, 2005 and 2015, aimed at adapting to the new curriculum guidelines of the Ministry of Education.
It forms undergraduate students with artistic, conceptual, and technical competence to work in the production of works involving language and pictorial techniques.
The proposed curriculum aims to promote autonomy and the continuous development of artistic potential, as well as its application in all similar areas where creative and technical potential related to the production of image or reflection when visual thinking is required. Most of the practical activities are developed at Atelier Cândido Portinari, in an area of approximately 1,500 m2, with two exhibition spaces: Macunaíma Gallery and Macunaíma / Paper.
