AP Studio Art ! ! Ms. Megan Church ! [email protected] • [email protected] ! Art Club (NAHS) Remind #: 81010, Text @art-nahs ! ! Course Description ! The AP Studio Art Portfolio is designed for students who are seriously interested in the practical experience of art and wish to develop mastery in the concept, composition, and execution of their ideas. AP Studio Art is not based on a written exam; instead, students submit portfolios for evaluation at the end of the year. In building a portfolio, students experience a variety of concepts, techniques, and approaches designed to help them demonstrate their abilities as well as their versatility with techniques, problem solving, and ideation. Students also develop a body of work for the Concentration section of the portfolio !that investigates an idea of personal interest to them. ! ! !The goals of the AP Studio Art course are:! • To encourage creative as well as systematic investigation of formal and conceptual issues in the Quality, !Concentration, and Breadth sections of the portfolio.! • To emphasize making art as an ongoing process that involves the student in the informed and critical !decision making to develop ideation.! • To develop technical versatility and skills while using the visual elements and principles in compositional !forms.! • To encourage students to become independent thinkers who will contribute inventively and critically to their culture through the making of art.! ! !The AP Studio Art course addresses 3 major areas in the teaching of art: ! !1) Concentration - Investigates an idea of personal interest. Should be cohesive (12 actual works)! !2) Breadth - Shows a wide range of media, techniques, styles, and ideas (12 actual works)! 3) Quality - A sense of mastery (5 actual works - that can be taken from Concentration and Breadth ! !sections)! ! !The Different Portfolios: 2-D Design and Drawing! 2-D Design Portfolio! AP Studio Art: 2-D Design Portfolio requires students to produce a minimum of 24 works of art that reflects issues related to 2-D design. Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Mixed Media, Digital Design, and Collage are all appropriate means for expressing design principles. This portfolio is intended to address two-dimensional (2-D) design issues. Design involves purposeful decision making about how to use the elements and principles of art in an integrative way.! The principles of design (unity/variety, balance, emphasis, contrast, rhythm, repetition, proportion/ scale, figure/ground relationships) can be articulated through the visual elements (line, shape, color, value, texture, space) . They help guide artists in making decisions about how to organize an image on a picture plane in order to communicate content. Effective design is possible whether one uses representational or abstract approaches to art. ! ! Drawing Portfolio! The Drawing Portfolio requires students to produce a minimum of 24 works of art that address a very broad interpretation of drawing issues and media. Line quality, light and shade, rendering of form, composition, surface manipulation, the illusion of depth and mark-making are drawing issues that can be addressed through a variety of means, which could include painting, printmaking, mixed media, etc . Abstract and observational works may demonstrate drawing competence . The range of marks used to make drawings, the arrangement of those marks, and the materials used to make the marks are endless. There is no preferred (or unacceptable) style or content. Using computer programs merely to manipulate work through filters, adjustments or special effects is not appropriate !for the Drawing Portfolio.! ______________________________________! ! !The 2-D and the Drawing portfolio have three sections:! I. Quality: 5 works in one or more media that demonstrates the student’ s mastery in concept, quality, composition and in execution. The five works are submitted with the actual portfolio and should be no larger than 18” x 24.”The works may be from the Breath and/or the Concentration !section. They may also be a group of related or unrelated works.! ! II. Concentration: ! 12 works unified by a common idea: For this section the student will develop a strong body of work that investigates an original idea. 12 slides are required; two may be details. The concentration is a series of works having a personal interest to the student. The slides submitted should show the evolution of the series; in most cases this would be chronological. !Students may not submit slides from the Breadth section in the Concentration.! ! III. Breadth: ! 12 works showing mastery of varied media, techniques, and subject matter produced through specific assignments. Twelve different slides are required; no detail slides.The work in this section should demonstrate an understanding of the principles and elements of design. This section will be completed in Semester I with assignments to encourage students to be innovative and expressive in their approach to demonstrate a range of abilities, techniques, and problem solving. ! ________________! !Required Materials! !Sketchbook - Should be a minimum of 9”x12”. You will have weekly sketchbook checks to gauge ! !progress.! Semester I:! The Breadth section will be the focus of the first semester assignments. Each assignment will be evaluated with a written student critique; a group critique will follow every project, giving the students an opportunity to discuss their works with the instructor and peers. Students will receive reviews of the following vocabularies: Printmaking, Drawing, Painting, The Elements and Principles of Design. Students will be required to make 1 visit to an art exhibit each grading period, and to write an essay about a specific artist of interest explaining why the artist’s work !(technique, skill, and rendering) captured their attention.! !Breadth assignments may include:! 1. Pop Art Self Portrait: Students will render a self-portrait after the study of works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and other Pop artists of the 1950’s movement inspired by ! advertising and consumer society. Medium: Gouache or Prisma! 2. Pattern Design: Students will research patterns used in art by different cultures then choose at least three different designs to inspire and to create their own works. Medium: ! Watercolor, acrylic or pastel.! 3. Master Style Drawing: Students will study the drawings and techniques of artist such as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Rembrandt then produce an original portrait, or landscape inspired by one or more of the Master styles. Medium: Charcoal and/or pastel, ebony, ! conte’! 4. Landscape Triad: Students will produce a painting from an observational drawing in color ! triad. Medium: Acrylic or oil stick! 5. Still-life on Gray Paper: Students will draw from a still-life arrangement with dramatic ! lighting. Medium: Oil Sticks or charcoal! ! 6. Poster Design: Students will study different approaches to graphic design (digital, direct drawing/painting). Following exploration of different approaches the student will design an ! original poster.! 7. Architectural Drawing: Students will make a drawing of a building using one, two, and ! three point perspective. Medium: Ebony and/or prisma! 8. Interior Drawing: A drawing of a room showing depth, shadows, and light. Medium: student ! choice! 9. Fauvist Painting: Students will study the early 20th century style characterized by strong colors and expressive brush work before producing an original painting in the Fauvist ! style. Medium: Acrylic and/or oil! 10. Relief Print: Students will prepare a drawing that will require a variety of textures to be transferred to a linoleum block then printed using various printing techniques. Medium: Ink ! and ebony! 11. Mixed Media: Using a variety of media (photo transfer, collage, paint) students will ! produce a work that focuses on a specific theme.! 12. Symbol Assignment: Students will research the history of symbolism in art before creating ! a work based on a symbol. Medium: Student choice! □ Students will be encouraged to create all of the above Breadth assignments in an expressive, !inventive, and experimental! manner. ! □The Semester final will include a written self-critique portion to give the student an opportunity to evaluate their progress during first semester and to set goals with a timeline for the second !semester. ! Semester II:! The Concentration section of the portfolio (12 works) will be the focus of second semester. A concentration piece will be due and critiqued in class every two weeks beginning the first week of February. In addition, the teacher will schedule informal individual conferences with each student to discuss their concentration ideas submitted at the end of the first semester and to begin production for the twelve required works.The twelve works must show an investigation of !a common theme and can be in one medium or different media.! !The following are a list of Concentration ideas my students have explored:! 1. Portraits of people in the artist’s life! 2. Exploration of a family heirloom ( patterns and color on teacup collection)! 3. Expressive nature of the body/anatomy! 4. Full-length self- portraiture! 5. Paintings based on solitude! 6. Tree symbolism! 7. Patterns in nature! 8. Inanimate objects! 9. Reflections! 10. The effects of changing light on a specific landscape! 11. Metamorphosis of a form! !12. ! Pattern designs! The student is encouraged to choose a concentration that will motivate and inspire them to !create original works.! !______________________!