Studio Art A and Studio Art B Enduring Understandings: 1. Creative expression allows an artist to express a personal response to inner and external prompts. 2. Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising and refining work over time. 3. Art allows us to create and see human expressions as God given gifts that we can value, nurture, and share. 4. Honoring the creative process as an instrument of unique expression allows us to come to an understanding of Being Beloved on the earth. 5. Artistic expression fosters creative problem solving and the ability to assess visual relationships. 6. Appreciation and creation of beauty inspires, educates, and enriches ourselves and others. Essential Questions: 1. What is the value of understanding and participating in the creative process? (Standard #5 – Connections, Relationships, Applications) 2. What is the role of Fine Arts in past and present cultures? 3. Why do people past and present feel compelled to make art? (Standard #2 – Creative Expression) List of Units: Studio Art A • Overview of the Course/Introduction to Forms of Art • Basic Visual Elements • Graphic Art • Historical Approaches: Viewpoints from Byzantine to the 20th Century • Drawing/Preparation for Skill • Concepts of Color • Painting List of Units: Studio Art B • Review elements of composition and design • Techniques: contour, shading, detail • Observation and Sketching skills • Composite art: oil pastels, acrylic paint • Four Aspects of Self • De-Construction • Surrealism • Modern Art A. M. D. G. STUDIO ART A (6120) KATIE WOLF Studio 108 email: [email protected] Fine Arts Chair Office hours: 8-8:30am or by appointment Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 Length:1 semester Type of Course: Elective Prerequisite: None Course Description: This course is a "hands-on" class designed to develop skills in design and composition, a variety of drawing styles, and acrylic painting. Students will receive instruction in a variety of media and will be required to use each of them in the creation of original work. The study of historical examples and observation of three-dimensional objects will be a springboard for the student's creative expression. No previous drawing skills are required to take this class; just come with an open mind! ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS 1. Why do people past and present feel compelled to make art? (standard #2-Creative Expression) 2. What is the value of understanding and participating in the creative process? (standard #5- Connections, Relationships, Applications) 3. What is the role of fine arts in past and present cultures? (standard #3- Historical and Cultural Context) ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS 1) to see human expression as a God given gift- to value, nurture and share 2) to honor the creative process as an instrument of our unique expression 3) to come to an understanding of being beloved on the earth 4) to engage in critical assessment of visual relationships 5) to be open to creative problem-solving 6) to understand that appreciation and creation of beauty inspires, educates and enriches ourselves and others ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Students will be able to: 1) develop basic skills in perceiving and rendering our visual world 2) develop and use a common visual language using terms of description: color, form, texture, line quality, repetition, contrast, etc. 3) develop a working knowledge of and skill level in creating works employing composition and elements of good design. 4) create works in a process that progresses from a non-objective approach image making through various styles of abstraction and on to the observation and painting of still life 5) identify various historical styles studied and executed by the class: Pointillism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, etc. 6) see creativity as a gift to value, nurture and share We will begin our course work in pencils and progress to oil pastels, colored pencils and acrylic paints on canvas. Our combined goal is to create an environment where a positive, creative experience is possible. Evaluation: 1st Quarter Grades: Grades for the first quarter are based on our classroom studio assignments, (assignments started in the studio may be completed at home if the student needs more time), the 5 assigned artist units and a variety of other research and collaborative assignments. The student's attitude, positive class participation, initiative and progress are factored into the semester grade. 2nd Quarter Grades: The second quarter grade is based on the completed studio assignments and the compilation of the FINAL PORTFOLIO including 10 ARTIST UNITS. The Final Portfolio will be handed in on the last day of class and is required to have an original artistic cover inspired by our course work, the reflection paper and sketches on our museum visit and any other assignments. Thumbnail sketches (the quick sketch “tool” artists use in developing work) from all assignments shall be placed in the final portfolio as well as research and other small design work. ARTIST UNIT REQUIREMENTS: For each artist studied you must submit the following: 1) 1and1/2 pages typed information on the context and style of the artist’s work 2) 4 printed images of works by the artist 3) 1 FULL page (8 ½”x11” paper) rendering of a work of the artist….various materials may be used: pencil, oil pastels, paint, charcoal, etc. Artist units, as all assignments, are to be submitted to the teacher on the date due. 4 FORMS OF ART SCULPTURE 3D, Defines space, Deals with form PAINTING 2D, Presentational, "all at once" MUSIC Linear, Sequential, Takes time LITERATURE Linear, Sequential, Takes time DANCE/THEATER 3D, Defines space, Linear ARCHITECTURE 3D, Domain, Functional VISUAL LANGUAGE . TERMS OF DESCRIPTION • COLOR Emotional Response • TEXTURE Surface treatment "feel with your eyes" • FORM 3D quality, scale and size • LINE QUALITY Indicates direction, movement or boundary Contrast • Creates visual interest and drama Repetition • Pattern creates familiarity Shading • Shadow and light sets a tone or mood Scale • Brings attention to size relationship, can be unexplained GIVING FORM TO FEELING Why do people present and past feel compelled to make art? • to bring order out of chaos • to make a personal expressive statement • to make a cultural statement • to record history We make art to express: 1. • THE WORLD AROUND US (reflection) 2. • THE WORLD INSIDE OF US (personal) 3. • THE UNEXPLAINABLE - GOD PERSPECTIVES OF ART • REALISM 3D, use of perspective to create: • foreground • middle ground • background sense of space, use of refined shading to create the illusion of reality on a flat surface • ABSTRACTION • [L. ab (from) trahere, (to draw) begins with an object or form in realty and changes it to create a "new reality" • NON-OJBECTIVE • using color, line and form to create a tone or feeling no objects from reality are used for image making 5 VIEWPPOINTS ON PAINTING FROM BYZANTINE TO THE 20TH CENTURY • EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ART: 323 1453 AD A religious art that uses a flattened, two dimensional stylized human form with an intense gaze to depict a sense or the spiritual and other-world". The human form is always rendered in a rigid pose with designated colors to indicate a particular saint or holy person. Over the centuries this style remains true to its Orthodox beliefs and unchanging in its visual presentation. • RENAISSANCE ART: 1400 - 1600 AD The Humanistic movement of the period was reflected in the visual artists' desire to portray nature and people-centered scenes realistically. Academic study of nature led to art works that used the concepts of perspective, foreshortening, and shading to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat surface. DEVELOPMENTS AND INFLUENCES: The development of photography in the 1850's captured an image of life realistically and caused painters and artists to explore other styles beyond realism. African sculptures and masks were brought to Europe at this time and greatly influenced the Western-European artists. The use of simplified, 2D, geometric forms as found in native cultures were adapted to European painting and sculpture and termed "modern". Now, when we see in art an emphasis on the two dimensional, abstracted, flattened imagery and use of an emotional or interior language, we owe much to traditional native peoples and their cultural expression. • THE MODERN AGE IMPRESSIONISM: Slice of Life", everyday subject matter rendered with hasty brush strokes to create a quick impression of the objects. Often forms are cut by the painting's edge--much in disregard of the academic centered painting of the Renaissance time BEGIN SELECTION OF YOUR ARTIST UNITS FROM THIS POINT FORWARD: 6 POST IMPRESSIONISM: - various approaches to the new manner of image making - emphasis on 2D rather than 3D - background is becoming as important as the main subject matter - abstraction of reality A: FORMALISM PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906) emphasis on solid clearly bounded color areas architectural approach to seeing the world in terms of geometric shapes; cones, cubes, cylinders worked to make impressionism solid and durable B: CUBISM: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris • monochrome palette - browns and grays • geometric breakup of space/shading dark to light • emphasis on 2D rather than 3D C: POINTILLISM OR DIVISIONISM George Seurat (1859-1891) • scientific exploration of color and the optical process • no line or plane of color is used - only dots D: EXPRESSIONISM Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) • vivid color • emotional content • vivid brush strokes E. SYMBOLISM Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) • quest for religious experience - religious theme • flat color areas • interest in "primitivism"- back to the non-European cultures that were in tune with nature and the deeper meaning of life F: EDWARD MUNCH (1863-1944) • psychological artistic representation of inner demons and emotions • starkly expressive style Between 1901-06 comprehensive exhibits in Paris of the works of Van Gough, Gauguin and Cezanne introduced a broad range of new artists to these revolutionary painting styles.