Principles of Visual Representation and Skill Development

Principles of Visual Representation

1. Multiple Application: A single form can represent various objects or body parts.
2. Baseline: Characters and objects need a base or fulcrum, mirrored by a skyline.
3. Perpendicularity: Objects rest perpendicularly on their base, even on slanted surfaces.
4. Size Importance: The most important elements are larger than secondary ones.
5. Isolation of Parts: In sets, draw similar elements individually to show their properties (e.g., hand and fingers).
6. Territorial Imperative: Each element has inviolable space, avoiding overlaps. Hats are tangential to the head.
7. Exemplary Manner: Choose the representation that best highlights an object's main qualities, favoring orthogonal projections.
8. Depression: Draw vertical elements (people, houses) frontally and horizontal elements (pools, tables) from a bird's-eye view.
9. Simultaneity of Viewpoints: Draw each part from its most "exemplary" view.
10. X-Rays: Show everything necessary to describe the image, including interiors and exteriors.

Contribution to Basic Skills Development

Cultural and Artistic Competence

Knowledge of artistic codes and techniques helps students understand the world and expand their expression and communication. Representing ideas fosters initiative, imagination, and creativity.

Autonomy and Personal Initiative

Finding solutions and acquiring knowledge encourages autonomy and personal initiative.

Social Competence and Citizenship

Interpretation and creation involve teamwork, cooperation, following rules, and using space appropriately.

Interaction with the Physical World

Appreciating the environment through perceptual work with sounds, shapes, colors, lines, textures, light, and movement in nature and human creations.

Learning to Learn Competence

Reflection on object manipulation, experimentation with techniques and materials, and sensory exploration provides inquiry and planning protocols for other learning areas.

Linguistic Communication Competence

Rich communicative exchanges, rule adherence, and songs develop speech-related skills.

Information and Digital Literacy

Technology showcases music and visual arts processes, aids artistic production, and supports image analysis. Seeking and exchanging information about past and present cultural fields enhances knowledge.