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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Body Movement in Design Teaching: Modernist Art Roots in Artus-Perrelet’s Active Pedagogy?
Marilene Oliveira Almeida, Amarílis Coelho Coragem, Regina Helena de Freitas Campos
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Abstract: This study presents initial results of a documental analysis aiming to establish a relationship between the experiences of design teaching and games systematized by Artus-Perrelet with the processes of creation and design teaching of the modernist artists Kandinsky and Paul Klee, lecturers at Bauhaus School, linked to modernist art thoughts. Artus-Perrelet had a solid pedagogical background and studied painting and design for many years. In Brazil, her work was divulged by her teaching performance at Escola de Aperfeiçoamento de Professores de Belo Horizonte, by the disclosure of the book O desenho a serviço da educação, edited in Brazil in 1930; and the journal Diario de Noticias – Pagina de Educação, coordinated by Cecília Meireles from 1930 through 1933. For the teaching of design and educative games, Perrelet worked with elements of visual language, aiming the establishment of the relationship with the subjective perception of the students, in an interdisciplinary way, and opposing to the traditional education. Her work was based on the principles of Geneva New Active School, and it could dialogue with the modernist proposals of art present in the Klee and Kandinsky’s pedagogical and creative orientations.
Key words: Artus-Perrelet, design teaching and games, new school, Kandisnky, Paul Klee
