CERCLE 9

44 INSTITUT BARCELONÈS D’ART One more step closer to recognising a job well done Panorama d'Art D uring this semester, two major events have taken place: the consolidation of a well-deserved place in the international art market for the work of our student Consuelo Buesa, and the acceptance of the 'Panorama d'Art' course programme for university academic recognition, which will enable us to issue postgraduate and master's degrees. Consuelo has won three victories with her Creador@s collection: at the Museumof Écija, at Marbella's Art Excellence Gallery and at i.b.a. Art Gallery in Barcelona, as well as being present in several groups at art fairs in Marbella, Madrid and Barcelona. Currently, her collection can be admired in the Institut gallery. A real matter of pride for those of us who participate in the Reial Cercle Artístic - Institut Barcelonès d'Art's artistic education project. This is the real aim of our association. The presentation of the ‘Panorama d'Art’ course dossier 1 to the Martí Alumà University Foundation as a mediator with the Ministry of Education to attain official recognition of the postgraduate and master's degree in art is a decisive step forwards in the recognition of our interdisciplinary training programme. Undoubtedly, this recognition will put us in a good position in the art world and will be an interesting source of talent that will make the Institut and, therefore, the Reial Cercle Artístic, an international reference in quality art education. It is a theoretical and practical course of 120 credits for the master's degree and 60 for the postgraduate course, distributed over four modules. The first part goes from prehistory to the modernity of the Renaissance; the second, from the Baroque to the avant-garde; the third, from Surrealism to the present and, finally, the development of a personal style, artist's portfolio, criticism, curating, marketing, professional career strategy and investigative ability. The course consists of an ambitious programme that aims to cover those aspects occurring in a given time that could affect an individual within the history of humanity to help understand the art that has come to us today, and try to interpret it via visual works done by the student under the influence of each chapter studied. We have separated it into thirty-three chronologically arranged epochs/styles to gain greater understanding. The first part/module covers from prehistory to the modernity of the Renaissance; the second, from the Baroque to the avant-garde; and the third, from Surrealism to the present. The fourth, as we have pointed out, is the miscellany that surrounds art, which we believe an artist must be familiar with to develop their career as such. Each 'epoch/style' is covered by an historical introduction of the moment, epoch or style to be studied, trying to understand the surroundings in which the artists lived and how that context influenced them to achieve their works of art. From there, the student will prepare an artistic project that will define the what and why of their idea and, for this, they should make a sketch of the different known artistic representations of the period and choose one of them to use as a model to make a practical interpretation — a work of art . Then they will start the creative process that will establish how to accomplish the interpretive piece with sketches, photographs, installations, montages, etc., to be able complete the work and later present it in the best conditions, according to the reference points, interpretation, techniques and actions carried out. Finally, an evaluation or critique of each work will be carried out. The objective of the course is interdisciplinary artistic training from the different periods and/or styles that art has shown us throughout history. To do this, a method based on artistic projects referenced to one of the chosen works of art has been established and interpreted at their will, with a tutor's guidance. The interdisciplinary training involves learning different disciplines (subjects) studied in Fine Arts faculties of any university in the world, but taught all together. That is, from each period studied we will be take an interest in their culture, sociology, politics, religion, philosophy, economics, science and artistic representation. And through the selected work we go deeper into everything that might have influenced the artist-author of the chosen work. In the interpretation, the technical aspects of drawing, painting, photography, engraving, digital art, ceramics or sculpture are introduced to elaborate the creative process of the work. The study of the different techniques and styles of each period should, by the end of the course, cover all possible artistic techniques. At the end, the critique of the final work must serve to correct and expand their processes. Workshops and seminars have been arranged at various times to go further into the technical and theoretical aspects of artistic practice. It is then a walk through all known history —from prehistory to the latest trends— through art, which is leitmotif of the course.