O que as Imagens fazem e o que elas nos fazem?

Abstract

The objective of this study is to elucidate the importance of teaching visual arts in the contemporary world where the same should stimulate questionings and problematization, reveal to us and instigating the new combinations and likenesses, extend paths for reflection. Identifying, from the study of visual culture, possibilities of teaching Visual Arts in promoting learning experiences to discuss, in a critical and creative ways of unsettling visuality generated in everyday life, presenting contemporary conceptions concerning the teaching of visual arts. In addition, the work discusses the relevance undertaken by images in today's world that is widely recognized. The perspective of the study of visual culture allows you to recognize the most diverse agents of cultural processes, allowing the student to explore and exploit their own cultural references. The teaching of the visual arts may not be a content part in schools, which do not relate the local and personal experiences of students. The visual artifacts can be an important bridge for reflections on cultural dimensions, social and subjective. The conceptual basis for the research is based on theorists who treat this theme as: JOLY (2007), HERNÁNDEZ (2000; 2007), MARTINS (2011), TOURINHO (2011), among others. The methodology is based on bibliographical research, it is important to understand that the bibliographic research consists not only in the accumulation of content related to problematic, its structure consists in removing approaches relevant to the study of different ideas and authors. The study showed that in the face of the immense information conferred and stemming from the perception of the image, we can provide viewers of art, empowerment training visual critique of human being and their relations in the society in which he lives and in the world.