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updated 02.09.2012 |
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Welcome AV Students to VA 1.0!
By successfully completing this course, you will fulfill your University of California "F" requirement for college admission. |
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Take a few moments to look around the site. It has your syllabus, extra credit projects, tips on how to write about art, examples of famous artwork, a student gallery and more. The site was created to help support your classroom practice. |
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Visual Art 1.0 has ben redesigned to become the first step in a pathway to the advanced courses of Drawing & Painting 2.0, Digital Art 2.0 and AP Art History. Students who show interest and skill in Visual Art 1.0 will be able to choose from one or more of these three courses.
Follow the Drawing Skills link and the Course Expectations to prepare yourself for success in Visual Art and become part of the pathway.
"Why Learn Art?" Here are some reasons.
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| FALL SEMESTER | Foundation I: "Drawing: Observation vs. Imagination" |
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- Unit I: Visual Communication: Drawing as Communication
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UNIT Objective: After 6 classes of drawing hand gestures from observation including blind contour drawing, students will create a large drawing mixing skills developed through observation and adding their imagination, making the work camera-ready by using only line, shape and some detail, then later completing the work by adding value to create form and space. (12 classes - 5 weeks)
- Essential Questions:
- Final Project
- Handscape Contour Drawing
- Value / Shading Added to Contour
- Due: Sept. 26
- Unit 1 Rubric
- Exercises: mark-making, pos/neg drawing, form practice sheets, object drawing, computer techniques
- Drawing Films:
- CRITIQUE METHODS:
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 1: Art in Your World, due October
- ArtTalk online quiz:: Chapter 2: Art Criticism , due October
- Art History Report: Surrealism: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Frida Kahlo
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- Unit II: Visual Communication: Drawing Goes Digital
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UNIT Objective: After 4 classes of software exercises and sketchbook contrast drawings, students will be able to add value and color to their digitized handscape drawing, using basic shading, contrast techniques & following a color scheme. (8 classes - 3 weeks)
- Essential Questions:
- What techniques prepare drawings for digital work?
- What software skills are necessary for the contemporary artist?
- What skills are developed through the use of computer software?
- Where Do Artists Get Their Ideas?
- Final Project:
- Computer Value / Collage Painting - Example
- Sumo Symmetry Painting - Example
- Due: October 31
- Unit 2 Rubric
- Sketchbook Assignments
- Exercises: Fireworks CS3 Techniques / Sumo Paint
- CRITIQUE METHODS:
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 3: The Media, due October
- Art History report: Fauvism, German Expressionism, Bauhaus, Kandinsky, Kirchner
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- Unit III: Visual Communication: Positive Space Spotlight Drawing
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UNIT Objective: After 4 classes of positive/negative space drawing exercises from still life setups, students will create a drawing / painting that focuses on combining positive and negative space in a creative way. Students will also create their own digital still life painting. (14 classes - 4 weeks)
- Essential Questions:
- How does awareness of negative space affect a work's composition?
- What techniques help create a unified composition?
- What techniques help create visual variety?
- What are the basic methods of observational drawing?
- Is observational drawing an important part of art education?
- Where Do Artists Get Their Ideas?
- Final Projects:
- Negative Space Spotlight Drawing - Example
- Digital Still Life Collage Painting
- Due: November 18
- Unit 3 Rubric
- Exercises: positive / negative space, observation drawing, brushwork basics
- CRITIQUE METHODS:
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 4: Line, due November
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 5: Shape, Form, Space, due November
- Visual Art content: contrast , negative space, color theory & schemes, rhythm, composition ideas
- Art History report: Caravaggio, Still Life, Momento Mori, Morandi, De Chirico, M.C. Escher, Paul Cezanne
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- Unit IV: Visual Communication: Drawing, Value & Space
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UNIT Objective: After 4 classes of 3-D perspective drawing and painting exercises, students will create a series of space drawings and digital work, culminating in a mixed media perspective project. Students will use these skills later in the spring semester to create a background for the their final tableaux project. (12 classes - 3 weeks)
- Essential Questions:
- What skills are necessary for creating 3-d space on a 2-d surface?
- How would an artist create more contemporary depictions of space?
- Can an artist make a convincing work of space without using perspective?
- Where Do Artists Get Their Ideas?
- Final Projects:
- Mixed Media Perspective Project - example
- Optional: Two Point Perspective Car
- Optional: Distorted Digital Landscape
- Due: January 6
- Unit 4 Rubric
- EXERCISES: one point / two point perspective, aerial perspective, monochrome value painting, expressionist perspective, distorted digital perspective, abstract perspective
- CRITIQUE METHODS:
- Art History report: Linear Perspective, Italian Renaissance: "The School of Athens", Hudson River School, Robert Henri, George Bellows, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci
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| SPRING SEMESTER | Foundation II: "The Figure in Space" |
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- Unit V: The Changing Face: Progressive Portraits
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UNIT Objective: After 4 classes of face drawing and digital media exercises, students will create a sequence of natural and digital media portraits that follow the "rules" of facial proportion. Students will progress towards devising and adding own methods and creative rules as part of their own unique portrait progression. (12 classes - 3 weeks)
- Essential Questions:
- What are the basic methods for drawing a face / portrait?
- What are some of the alternatives to traditional portraiture?
- What are the basic color techniques used in natural / digital work?
- What images, symbols, ideas, objects that could become symbolic elements for your self portrait?
- How does working in different media effect the process of art making?
- Where Do Artists Get Their Ideas?
- Final Projects:
- Four Pack Mixed Media Progressive Portraits
- Digital Paintings: Splatter Painting, Collage, Filters
- Writing Prompt: Comparison worksheet
- Due: February 8
- Unit 5 Rubric
- EXERCISES:
- Skull / face proportion drawing (shape/form);
- Monochome face form painting(color);
- Face mosaic collage (texture);
- Digital Portraits (color / texture)
- CRITIQUE METHODS:
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 6: Color
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 7: Texture
- Art History report: Andy Warhol, Ed Paschke, Romare Bearden, Henri Matisse, Archimboldo, Frida Kahlo, Artwork: American Gothic
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- Unit VI: Figure in Space: Proportion and Animation
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UNIT Objective: After 4 classes of figure drawing exercises, students will create a series of human figure drawings and paintings, culminating with a final large wall figure, a painting and digital piece. Students will create small wall figure maquettes then work in a group to create a 1/2 scale final wall figure. The smaller maquette figure may be part of their final semester project. (14 classes - 5 weeks)
- Essential Questions:
- Where does the figure exist in the contemporary art landscape?
- How is your image of "self" connected to methods of figure drawing?
- How does the medium determine the "look" of a work of art?
- What are the proportions of a perfect human in today's society?
- How do you create an expressive figure that conveys an emotion?
- Where Do Artists Get Their Ideas?
- Final Projects:
- 1/2 Scale Folding Wall Figure - examples
- Choice 1: Archimboldo Digital Collage Figure - examples
- Choice 2: Flash Animated Figure
- Choice 3: Digital Splatter Figure Painting
- Midterm essay prompt on different methods of creating a human
- Due: March 9
- Unit 6 Rubric
- EXERCISES:
- Human stick figure / skeleton: structure / proportion
- Adding flesh: volume / mass
- Face figure: cut out face add figure
- Hinged figures: adapting proportion / structure
- Digital figure: traditional / modern / fashion
- CRITIQUE METHODS:
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 8: Rhythm, etc.
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 10: Proportion
- Art History report:German Expressionism, Henry Moore, Max Beckmann, Jean Michel Basquiat, Egon Schiele, Archimboldo
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- Unit VII: Sculpting Space: From 2-D Drawings to 3-D Busts
- UNIT Objective: After 3 classes of head drawing and sculpting practice, students will create clay busts/figures as the third part of their final assemblage. The clay figures will be part of a narrative that connects through visual techniques or by motif to previous work. (8 classes)
- Essential Questions:
- Where does the figure exist in the contemporary art landscape?
- How is creating 3-d work different from 2-d work?
- How do you represent facial expressions in clay?
- Where Do Artists Get Their Ideas?
- Final Projects:
- Painted clay bust
- Sculptris Digital Bust
- Due:
- Unit 7 Rubric
- EXERCISES:
- Multiple POV sketches from busts
- basic sculpting techniques - pros/cons
- basic bust modeling / proportion
- CRITIQUE METHODS:
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 11: Variety...
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 12: Art Traditions
- Art History report: Honore Daumier, Robert Arneson, Alberto Giacometti, Cubist Sculpture
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- Unit VIII: Constructing Space: Mixed Media Assemblage
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UNIT Objective: After 2 classes of brainstorming exercises, writing short narratives and developing basic construction techniques, students will work in groups to create an assemblage that brings together into one project, previous work, focusing on a theme from film, literature or histort, (6 classes)
- Essential Questions:
- What do you need to know to make art in the 21st Century?
- How is mixed media work different from traditional work?
- What makes art contemporary?
- How does an artist connect elements in a mixed media work?
- How do you illustrate a genre or theme?
- Where Do Artists Get Their Ideas?
- Final Projects:
- Mixed Media Assemblage - example
- Artists' Statement, philosophy, narrative
- Digital Comic Book
- Due:
- Unit 8 Rubric
- EXERCISES: movie/book genre brainstorming, motif building, mixed media connections, space/scale/distortion
- CRITIQUE METHODS:
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 11: Variety...
- ArtTalk online quiz: Chapter 13: Western Traditions
- Art History report: Assemblage, Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Cornell, Edward Keinholz, Red Grooms, Hieronymous Bosch, Dracula
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- Unit IX: Choosing Space: Designing Your Own World
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UNIT Objective: After 2 classes of brainstorming ideas and reviewing past projects, students will choose an assignment from the past year and build upon those skills and knowledge by creating a new work. The work may be personal and represent their neighborhood, environment, and point of view. They will also create their own rubric. Finally, they will assign an career role based on their choice of art project. (3 weeks - 8 classes)
- Essential Questions:
- How does an artist decide on a subject / project?
- What is the difference in process when working with natural and digital media?
- How are digital and natural media pathways different?
- How might a high school art program be different than a college program?
- Where Do Artists Get Their Ideas?
- Final Projects:
- Natural / Digital Painting/Poster/Collage/Comic/Painting
- PowerPoint Portfolio
- Artist statement, philosophy, narrative/story
- Final Project Due:
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The mission of Ánimo Venice Charter High School is to prepare students for college, leadership, and life through innovative instruction, a rigorous curriculum, and the use of technology. At Ánimo Venice, we are committed to the education, and social and economic success of students who historically are unlikely to attend and excel at an institution of higher learning. We aim to achieve our mission by creating a student-centered environment that unifies the efforts of family, community, and school to foster life-long learning, cross-cultural competency, social responsibility, and academic excellence. |
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