At a lecture of the Tartu Art Museum's Art History Lectureship. Virve Hinnov, senior research associate at the museum, talks about Estonian painting in the 19th century.
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Start Date:
23.01.2025
Start Time:
16:30
End Date:
23.01.2025
Anneli Porri is a PhD student and junior researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture from 2023.
She graduated from the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA in Art History and VIsual Culture Studies, 2002) and the Institute of Humanities of Tallinn University (MA in Cultural Theory, 2012) and works as a lecturer in art education and as a leader of the joint art teacher training programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Porri has written art criticism for the cultural media, curated exhibitions of Estonian and international contemporary art, edited art publications, and compiled teaching materials for both general and higher education.
Porri’s academic research interests are related to art education, teaching methods for the analysis of artworks and the didactics of art mediation. Her doctoral research focuses on teaching methods and strategies that support the development of visual competence, particularly in the interpretation of artworks.
About the seminar:
Conscious and deliberate looking is the basis of visual literacy and the interpretation of visual images is based on both our vision and our knowledge. Thus, image reading requires conscious learning. But how does the learning process establish contact with art and develop the skills that allow the viewer to interpret a work of art?
At the research seminar I will present a study in progress on the teaching of art history in Estonia since the establishment of the first chair of art history at the University of Tartu. I will offer a perspective on Estonian art history and art history studies that focuses primarily on the didactics of the subject, a view on the study and teaching of art history, an additional layer to the study of the science of Estonian art history, which has also been addressed in recent articles by Krista Kodres and Eero Kangor.
The aim of the study is to problematise the choice of traditional teaching methods and strategies in art history in both higher and general education and to clarify attitudes towards them according to art history and educational thought and practice.
I will focus on the following research questions:
1. What are the institutional and educational policy conditions of art history teaching in Estonian higher and general education 1920-1990(?)?
2. How is the teaching of the history of art and the relationship with art aimed at, what competences is it aimed at developing?
3. What are the traditional methods and strategies of teaching art history that have developed and are used in the teaching process?