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Course Purpose:
The Studio Art course is designed to promote offerings and opportunities to express artistic
content through visual means with specific artistic intent in two and three dimensions. In the
Studio course one will value quality work, be encouraged to think about the 'why' of art making,
and be able to choose whatever medium best serves the concept trying to be expressed. The
Studio Art class is the last of the general art courses which provides instruction in a variety of
media, including: drawing, painting, graphic design, printmaking, and sculpture. At the
completion of Studio Art, student will focus on drawing (drawing, printing, and painting), 2D
Design (graphic and digital media), or 3D Design (ceramics or 3D) and will appreciate the
technical, functional and aesthetic properties of art from various genres and cultures, drawing on
them for inspiration in ones own creations.
6. Perspective drawing
7. New Media sculptures
8. Photorealistic painting
9. Artist books - graphic novels
10. Historical poster design
11. Contemporary Art Museum
Date: 6/08
Date: 6/08
Grade: 10-12
Subject: Drawing
Essential Questions
Why has the figure been revered as a symbol for perfection since
the time of the Ancient Greeks?
What effect does chiaroscuro and foreshortening have on
drawing the figure?
What is the process that is used to transfer the ideal form into a
representational form using chiaroscura?
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
Date: 6/08
Authentic Performance Task- create a representational figure drawing of a model based on observation
Assessment (self) comparison of work against Drers standard model
Assessment (teacher) technique, proportion, chiarosucra rendering, and artistic content in the work
Class critique of compositional studies during process defend portrayal of models attitude, use of shading and proportions
Final group critique defend how they translated the light cast upon the live model in a standard chiaroscura method
Date: 6/08
Subject: Drawing
Essential Questions
Why can there be more than one vanishing point in a painting or drawing?
Is there any limit to how many there can be?
How does sfumato help to make a painting or drawing seem more realistic or
naturalistic?
With the discovery of linear perspective to what end have we progressed
artistically?
As an artist can we draw a distinction between perspective and point of
view?
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
Pre-AP Competencies
Work shows flexibility of thinking.
Work demonstrating strong links between
form and content.
Date: 6/08
Authentic Performance Task- create two perspective drawings, one from life and one creative interpretation
Assessment (self) compositional considerations, linear perspective technique, limitations of the assigned situation
Assessment (teacher) perspective technique, foreshortening and sfumato techniques, and creativity applied in the final work
Assessment (teacher) - accuracy of multimedia presentation on works comparison
Class critique of conceptual studies for the final work during process defend how the creative work addresses the need for the
future, how the work is technically proficient
Podcast- process and technique
Final group critique reflect on inspirational considerations for the perspective offered, technical prowess, and artistic vision
Stage III Core/Assured Learning Experiences
Gustave Caillebotte
Paris Street, A Rainy Day
1877
Oil on Canvas
Hockney, David
The Chair
1985
Oil on canvas
Date: 6/08
Subject: Drawing
Essential Questions
Is still life only about the objects seen in the image or also about those not
in the image? If so, what questions does this beg?
Do still life artists most often commodify the image of the product
represented or the still life itself?
Why is combining real and implied imagery together helpful to an artist
who is trying to create a sense of photorealism within a design?
How can the artist perceive the beauty of movement, the subtleties of color,
and the richness of texture better than cameras in poorly lit conditions?
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
The students will know:
the four steps of constructing a painting
including cartooning, underpainting,
painting, and overpainting.
Pre-AP Competencies
Confident execution of work.
Date: 6/08
Authentic Performance Task- create a still life drawing using direct observation, gridding, and photographic references
Assessment (self) How is the image your designed and presented is better than a photographic representation?
Assessment (teacher) technique, proportion, and artistic content in the work
Quiz technical procedure for creating a hyperrealistic painting
Class critique of compositional studies during process defend how the image is about more than the represented objects
Final group critique constructive criticism of other students work looking at technique used by the student
Date: 6/08
Subject: Drawing
Essential Questions
What are different ways that artists have used the landscape
throughout history to contemporary times?
What are examples of different relationships between art and
the landscape- for example: art that investigates and records
the environment as it exists, art that responds to and is
influenced by its setting or environment, or art that imposes
itself onto the landscape? What are the similarities and
differences between them?
How can the artists hand change the relationship between
landscape and time?
Primary EUs and Content Standards
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
Pre-AP Competencies
Work demonstrates command of both artistic
and technical concerns
The work effectively synthesizes form and
content
Date: 6/08
Gestural drawing
Watercolor technique
Plein air supplies and technique
Figure-ground relationship
Date: 6/08
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Subject: Drawing
Essential Questions
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
The students will know:
Pre-AP Competencies
Command of both stylistic and technical
concerns
Engaging drawing issues and techniques
Informed and developed thought and risktaking
Date: 6/08
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Authentic Performance Task- create a multiple impression print using etching press
Student Assessment (self) critique artistic intent in comparison with historical relief print making
Assessment (teacher) technique, ergonomics, and function of the work
Class critique of contemporary printmaking concepts how did the image change with the introduction of found and distressed
materials?
Final group critique What is the line between an image that is engaging or confusing?
Date: 6/08
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Subject: 3D Design
Essential Questions
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
The students will know:
Pre-AP Competencies
The work addresses sophisticated/complex
ideas with confidence and verve.
The work demonstrate an original vision.
The work demonstrates an understanig of
symmetry, asymmetry, balance, anomaly,
and implied motion.
Date: 6/08
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Date: 6/08
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Subject: 3D Design
Essential Questions
What are the similarities and differences between sculpture and architecture?
What are the ways that sculptors and architects influence each other?
How do we as individuals embody an interior and an exterior, public and
private selves and how does this manifest itself in our architecture?
What is a faade and how does it relate to architecture, to sculpture, to
individuals?
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
Pre-AP Competencies
Date: 6/08
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Date: 6/08
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Subject: 2D Design
Essential Questions
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
The students will know:
Pre-AP Competencies
Sophisticated and complex idea for the
design.
Inventive and evocative package design for
the clients product.
Confident articulation of design principles.
Date: 6/08
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Evaluate innovated package design by disecting and analyzing the flat printed shape.
Work within 1/64 tolerances.
Teacher presentation of form and function of architecture.
Site specific architectural consideration and practices.
Date: 6/08
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Subject: 2D Design
Essential Questions
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
Pre-AP Competencies
Unmistakable connection between the
theme and the work presented.
Date: 6/08
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Subject: 2D Design
Essential Questions
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
Pre-AP Competencies
Strong technique
Form and content synthesized to create
visual ideas
Innovated and evocative execution of work.
Date: 6/08
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PhotoShop and Illustrator image creation using multiple layers and filters
Poster slides and research to assess contemporary aesthetics for design.
Public display of posters.
Date: 6/08
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Essential Questions
Why was primary source images better than reproduction and projected
images?
How does contemporary art, both in and out of the museum, compare to this
museums wide-ranging historical collection?
How is the contemporary artwork one sees in the museum part of cultural
stewardship?
Stage I - Standards
Key Content Knowledge and Concepts/Skills
Pre-AP Competencies
Artwork is informed with current trends in
art making.
Artwork is engaging to the viewer.
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Visit a museum with a contemporary art exhibit or gallery of contemporary art as part of the class.
Expository writing assignment.
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