Course Name:       Drawing and Painting/The World and Europe II

School Name: The Harvard-Westlake School

Course Length: Academic Year

Grades: 10 - 12

19. Course Goals/Major Student Outcomes

1.       Demonstrate basic skill building in drawing and painting production, applying the fundamentals of the elements and principles of fine art and design.

  1. Experience not only art production, but also artistic philosophy, art criticism, and art history.
  2. Analyze and make critical assessments about artworks.
  3. Respond appropriately to a variety of inquiries related to the curriculum.
  4. Produce artwork that shows individual creativity and problem solving ability.

20. Course Objectives

                This is the foundation course for the three AP Studio Art Portfolios: 2-D Design; 3-D Design; and Drawing.  Students explore the Elements & Principles of Design, a broad range of Analytic and Expressive Drawing Skills, Color Theory and Interaction, and the History of Art.  It is expected that at the end of this course, students will have  the tools of  Visual Literacy not only to read works of art  from Art History but also to analyze their own work so that they can resolve problems and, finally, discover their individual artistic styles.

1.       Students will design individual artworks based on design elements and principles as well as responses to historical, philosophical and cultural prompts.

  1. Students will use appropriate vocabulary in the verbal and written description and analysis of their work.
  2. Students will participate in historical and cultural discussions about the philosophy of art.
  3. Students will create artwork of acceptable quality using the techniques of graphite drawing, pen and ink, colored pencil, water color, tempera, multi-media collage, acrylic paints, illustration board, and plaster-of-Paris.

21. Course Outline

                Semester I:

                                1.  Visual Literacy

                                2.  Principles of 2-D design

                                3.  Principles of 3-D Design

                Semester II:

1.  Analytic Drawing Skills  ( geometric analysis, tracking contours, light logic, sighting proportions and perspective), Linear Perspective and Generic Anatomical Proportion for Figure Drawing and Portraiture.

2. Expressive Drawing Skills  ( Mark making and compositional manipulation.)

3. Color Theory and Interaction.

   

22. Texts and Supplemental Instructional Materials

Fleming, William  ARTS  AND  IDEAS.

                Albers, Josef         COLOR  INTERACTION

                Arnheim, Rudolf   ART AND VISUAL PERCEPTION

Williams, Lewis    The Neuropsychological Model of the Visionary I

Kaupelis, Robert   EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING

Edmonston, Paul   THE DRAWING HANDBOOK

Richardson, John   ART THE WAY IT IS

Alvin, Martin         AMERICAN REALISM

Messer, Thomas    KANDINSKY

Jianow, Ionel        HENRY MOORE

Read, Hernert       A CONCISE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING

Zappalorti, Robert  DRAWING SHARP FOCUS STILL LIVES

Hale, Robert         DRAWING LESSONS FROM THE GREAT MASTERS

Theroux, Andre  PRIMARY COLORS, SECONDARY COLORS
23. Key Assignments
   

VAPA Standards as Applied

Assignment

Slides/

Readings/Audio

1. Artistic Perception

2. Creative Expression

3. Historical/

Cultural Context

4. Aesthetic Valuing

5. Connections

1. Introduction to the Elements and Principles of Art.

Linear Improvisations.

Black and White Design based on Entoptic  Forms. 

Slides: Early Renaissance (Giotto, Masaccio, Botticelli, etc.)

Readings:

Arnheim, Williams, Kaupelis, Edmonston, Richardson, Fleming

Audio: Tallis Scholars

1.1, 1.2 and 1.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

1.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

2.1 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

2.1 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

3.1 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

3.3 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

4.2 and 4.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

4.1, 4.3 and 4.4 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

5.2 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

2. “The Intellectual, Emotional, and Perceptual Apples.”

Use Elements and Principles to clearly delineate style in a series of drawings.

Classroom Critique.

Slides: High Renaissance (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rafael)

Readings:

Arnheim, Albers

Audio:

1.1 and 1.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

1.3 and 1.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

2.1 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

2.1, 2.4 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

  

4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

4.4 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

5.2 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

3. Drawing to Music, after  Kandinsky - pastel chalk.

Explore movement through space to music.  Use advanced drawing techniques.

Classroom critique.

Slides: Northern Renaissance, Venetian Renaissance, Mannerism and Kandinsky.

Readings:

Messer

Audio: Wagner

1.1, 1.2 and 1.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

1.1, 1.3 and 1.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

2.1 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

2.1, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

  

4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

4.1, 4.4 and 4.5 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

5.2 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

4. 3-D Design:  A cast and carved sculpture.

Explore Positive and Negative Space, Volumes and Voids.

Classroom and written critique.

Slides: Moore, Calder, World Sculpture (Japan, China, ndia, Africa, Pre-Columbian Anmerica)

Readings:

Jianow, Fleming.

Audio: Music From Around the World

1.1, 1.2 and 1.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

1.3 and 1.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

2.1 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

2.3 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

3.1, 3.3 and 3.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

3.2 and 3.3 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

4.2 and 4.4 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

  

5. Observational, Tonal Drawing of their own sculpture.

Basic Forms, Sighting/Proportion & Contour Line, Shades, Mid-Tones, Highlights.

3-D and 2-D Forms shown in Gallery.

Slides: Rubens.

  

2.4 for grades 9-12 Proficient.

2.3 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

  

4.4 for grades 9-12 Proficient.

  

6. Intuition to Intention: 2-D/3-D Relief  Design and Abstract Drawing.  Ink.  Light Logic.

Use of integrated forms according to student-generated master plan.

Analysis of elements of Personal expression. 

Written and class critiques.

Slides: Bernini Gentileschi, Borromini, Caravagio, Rubens

Readings: Zappalorti, Fleming.

Audio: Baroque (Bach, Mozart).

1.1, 1.2 and 1.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

1.3, 1.6 and 1.8 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

2.1, 2.4 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

3.3 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

4.4 and 4.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

5.2 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

7. Analytic Drawing of  Student's Hand morphing into an Object. (Introduction to all of the Analytic Drawing Skills, Anatomic

Proportion and Linear Perspective).    Graphite.

Gallery show and critique.

Slides: Bourgeois Baroque, Aristocratic Baroque, Spain/France/Netherlands (Rembrandt)

Readings: Fleming.

Audio: Dutch Lute Music.

1.4 and 1.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

1.3 and 1.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

2.1, 2.4 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

3.1 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

4.4 and 4.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

4.4 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

5.2 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

8. “Masterful Figures” …  Figure Drawings “After the Masters”—Three figures arranged in a  Cubistic composition. Conte Crayon, toned paper.

Slides: Aristocratic Baroque, Spain/France, Italian Baroque.

Neo-Classicism and Romanticism (Ingres, Gericault).

Readings: Fleming

1.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

1.3 and 1.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

2.4 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

2.1, 2.2, 2.5 and 2.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

3.3 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient

4.3 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

5.2 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

8-B. Color Interaction Workshop.

Color Interaction and Mixing Workshop -- Mixing the Neutral Color Wheel and a variety of painting strokes and Applications are introduced.

Slides: Delacroix, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism.

Readings: Albers, Itten, Theroux.

Audio: Ravel, Debussey.

1.4 and 1.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

1.1 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

2.1 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

      

9. Self Portrait (life drawing)  After the Impressionists and Post Impressionists.  Pick an artist to research and emulate.

Proportions, anatomy, design of human head; aspects of historic styles.

Slides: Impressionism to Fauves.

Readings: Fleming.

Audio: Debussey.

1.4 and 1.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

1.1, 1.3, 1.6 and 1.8 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

2.1, 2.4 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

3.3 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

4.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

4.4 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

  

10. The Big Critique.

Analysis of student’s individual style in writing and oral presentations, through consideration of entire portfolio.

  

1.1, 1.2 and 1.4 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

1.2, 1.3, 1.6 and 1.7 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

2.2 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

2.1, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 for Grades 9-12 Advanced

  

4.5 for Grades 9-12 Proficient.

4.4 and 4.6 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.

5.2 and 5.3 for Grades 9-12 Advanced.
             

               

                               

24. Instructional Methods/Strategies

Lectures, Slide Presentations, Demonstrations, Assigned Readings, Discussions, Directed Technique Workshops,  Homework Assignments in Sketchbooks,

And  OUTSIDE  COMPONENT (Homework) examples:

 

1. A three panel piece involving the interpretation of one apple in three ways—“The Intellectual Apple, the Emotional Apple, and the Perceptual Apple;”

2. Six  Constructed Human Figures in Animated Poses;

3. Eight Imaginary Faces illustrating a variety of  perspectives,  ages,  expressions and Ethnic backgrounds…( The faces must  demonstrate  a knowledge of  generic proportions for portraiture.)  

25. Assessment Methods/Tools

                Standards of Performance:

                                1.  Production of all finished work on Deadline.  Each project should

                                                demonstrate excellence in terms of concept as well as craft.

                                2.  Development of a commitment to experimentation and problem

                                                solving.

                                3.  Participation in class critiques and discussions of art history and theory

                                                with focus, enthusiasm and respect for peers.

                                4.  Completion of all reading and written assignments.

                Methods:

                                Written teacher critiques,  written student self-critiques,  in class peer

                                Critiques,  and class museum visits and  discussions.