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Art I Course Objectives
Wendy Ciarci
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Art I

 

Course Description:

Art I is an introductory level 2 course required for advanced art courses. Students will receive a broad education in art time periods, styles, individual artists, techniques, materials and approaches to artwork. The first half of the year students will concentrate on composition and understanding and applying the elements of art and principles of design. The second half of the year students will learn a variety of materials, techniques and processes. Content will be studied throughout the year.

 

Course Goals

1. Students will develop the intellectual skills, the manual dexterity and the perceptual insight to enjoy lifelong participation in and enjoyment of art.

2. Students will have a familiarity with the history of art and an appreciation for the art of many cultures.

3. Students will develop an understanding of design, composition, materials and process in the making of art.

4. Students will develop content, meaning, expression and symbolism in their artwork and demonstrate their understanding through discussion of artwork.

5. Students will develop reading and writing skills.

6. Students will develop an art vocabulary.

7. Students will develop higher order thinking skills through the process of identifying, describing, analyzing and evaluating artwork.

 

Course Objectives

The department uses a comprehensive art education structure and divides content into four subject areas.

 

Art history: Students will identify the expressive implications of design structures and art styles. Students will identify a variety of art time periods, styles and individual artists from Western and non-western cultures. Students will demonstrate understanding through applications of art styles to art projects, internet research worksheets, quizzes, papers and oral reports.

 

Art production: Students will complete projects in a variety of materials, techniques, art styles such as impressionism, art approaches such as realism or abstraction, with compositions based on the elements of art and principles of design. Students will demonstrate understanding of composition, materials and content through unit quizzes and art projects.

 

Art criticism: Students will identify design elements and stylistic qualities, content in works of art through papers and oral critiques. Students will analyze artwork and apply evaluative strategies that lead to understanding and judging of artwork in class and in papers.

 

Aesthetics: Students will examine the nature of art, why cultures produce art, and explore the meaning of art to human kind.

 

Assessment

  •    Art Production Projects, 10 unit/vocabulary quizzes. 4 short papers: Responding to art, 4 reading worksheet and two power point presentations on an artist, art movement or art style. Multiple choice/short essay midterm and  final.
  •    Weekly homework assignments, notebook grades, class critique/participation

Topics

Art as Symbol

Basic Concepts of Composition

Mythology and Meaning in Art

Design, Symbolism and Beliefs across Cultures

Space, Illusion, Perspective

Medieval Symbolism in Art

The Italian Renaissance and Rebirth of the Human Form

Artists of the Moulin Rouge

The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz age

Abstraction in Art

Working Realistically in Drawing and Painting

 

Art Styles

Classical Art and Architecture, Buddhist Mandalas, Hindu Mythology, Native American Pottery, Asian Painting, Islamic Tesselations, Realism, Abstraction, Surrealism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Pop Surrealism, Cubism, Pop Art, Fauvism, Hudson River School, Italian Renaissance, Bauhaus Design

 

Artists

Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Vincent VanGogh, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Renoir, Degas, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Briget Riley, Victor Vasarely, Henri Matisse, Geogia O’Keefe, Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, Thomas Church, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Ghery, Rembrandt

 

Field Trips and Guest Speakers

The art department sponsors at least one field trip per semester to augment the educational process. The art department has a number of guest speakers and workshops. Notices are posted on the art department bulletin board in the hallway. The art department will not accept late forms and payments

 

Materials

Students must have a three ring binder with 8 dividers, Sketchbook (6x8), pens and pencils, notebook paper