Aragón PAU Graphic-Plastic Expression Techniques study guide
Aragón PAU Graphic-Plastic Expression Techniques · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Técnicas de Expresión Gráfico-Plástica is one of the optional subjects in the Aragón PAU (Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad, also called EvAU), the university entrance examination taken after Bachillerato. Choosing it signals that you want to demonstrate practical and analytical skill in drawing, painting and graphic communication, and it is typically chosen by students heading towards Fine Arts, Design, Architecture or Art History, though it is open to any candidate who has studied it in the Bachillerato de Artes. The Aragón PAU Graphic-Plastic Expression Techniques study guide has 8 sections and about 3,589 words.
01Materials, tools and techniques: properties, handling and care
This domain tests whether you can name a material, explain how it behaves in the hand, and justify a choice for a specific job. PAU questions rarely ask only 'what is gouache?'; they ask which medium you would use for a given problem and why, so every property you quote must be tied to a practical consequence.
489 words, about 2 min02Drawing techniques: dry media and wet media
This domain tests control of mark and tone in media that mostly refuse correction. Questions pair a medium with a support, ask how to build a value scale without mud, or ask which tool produces a given mark.
472 words, about 2 min03Painting techniques: watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil; supports and mixed media
This domain tests whether you can plan a painting in layers and explain why a medium suits a subject. Expect questions on drying behaviour, layering order and the preparation of supports.
424 words, about 2 min04Graphic design and illustration: composition, typography, layout and visual communication
This domain tests whether you can build a layout a reader decodes in the intended order, and then explain the typographic and compositional decisions behind it. Answers are judged on reasoning, not decoration.
450 words, about 2 min05Printmaking and reproduction: relief, intaglio, planographic and stencil
Printmaking questions test whether you can link a process to the physical principle behind it, meaning where the ink actually sits, and to the marks that process can and cannot make. Linocut and woodcut carry ink on the raised surface; what you cut away stays paper-white.
458 words, about 2 min06Image analysis and visual language: formal elements, colour, texture, composition and meaning
Image analysis rewards precise vocabulary plus a conclusion about meaning. A list of formal elements with no interpretation earns about half the marks; an interpretation with no formal evidence earns less.
422 words, about 2 min07Creative process and project development: planning, experimentation, documentation and presentation
This domain assesses the project behind the artwork: brief, research, experimentation, resolution, documentation and presentation. Marks go to evidence of decisions and their justification, not to a polished final image alone.
428 words, about 2 min08Artistic and graphic-plastic heritage: references, styles and their technical context
This domain tests whether you can place a work in its technical context: which medium, which support, which workshop, which constraints. Style names alone are not enough; link each style to the technique that made it possible.
446 words, about 2 min