Breve meditación sobre la técnica: crear-aprender desde lo abstracto a lo concreto

Abstract

Departing from the view of technique as something enigmatic and fascinating at the same time, this paper intends to reflect on technique’s relationship with creative processes, its insertion in arts teaching-learning environments and reveal possible challenges and certainties that are usually left aside in artist’s education. Technique is, and must be, one of the main focuses of attention in an artist work, given that it is the fulcrum that joins together concepts and media, gestures and operations, to condense representations that are later embodied in artworks. With technique learnt and apprehended one can recognize paths reinforced by following a series of general instructions, which are transformed into the operations that allow its working. We refer to Gilbert Simondon’s thoughts to propose a brief meditation that allows understanding the inherent movement of technique as an oscillation that goes from the abstract to the concrete, therefore highlighting the importance of this kind of learning in artistic work itself. Thinking modes with which artists work technically is to look for clues about pedagogical orientations that must be present at the moment of teaching (a technique).