The epistemology of teaching of drawing

Abstract

This paper discusses the epistemology of teaching of drawing required to the complexity of contemporary thought present in the curricula of higher education of the artist and the art teacher. The research emphasizes the transformations that occurred in the 20th century related to the emergence of the complex thought, in the light of the theory of Autopoiesis of Maturana and Varela, that is inserted into a systemic conception of knowledge, and makes a reflection on the vicissitudes of contemporary thought without prescinding the tradition, especially, with respect to ethics and aesthetics. The text has as reference the course curriculum program in Visual Arts UFRGS, involving the Degree and the Bachelor, it develops from the criticism of specialist modernist curricula, placed in parallel to the need of the generalistic vision of contemporary thought, through inter and transdisciplinary vision of science and art. The axis of the research is based on the following question: How the contemporary thought pervades the teaching of drawing and resets the epistemology in the curricula of higher education of the artist and art teacher?