Visual Arts Class Unit Plan

BCLHS Fine Arts Department - Visual Arts

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COURSE TITLE:                       Visual Arts

LENGTH OF COURSE:           One Year

 

GRADE LEVEL:                        11- 12

 

PREREQUISITES:                    A desire to develop artistic skills

 

SUPPLEMENTARY

MATERIALS:                              Art History, Marilyn Stokstad, Harrey N. Abrams, Inc., 1995.

                                                      Art Talk

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

This course is a first year art course in the fundamental of art.   This course emphasizes the necessary skills to provide the student with a perceptual base leading to understanding artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context(s); aesthetic valuing and connections, relations, applications of the Visual arts.   Learning the tools, techniques, materials, technology and application of what is learned in other art forms, subject areas and careers.   The art elements and principals of design serve as a foundation for each unit covered.   Selected historical or cultural contexts will be applied with attention to analysis, interpretation, and judgment of student work as well as appreciation of art works from other cultures and times.

 

This Visual Arts courses will meet the BCLHS graduation requirements as well as the requirement for admission as the CSU system.

 

UNIT SEQUENCE

 

Unit I - Introduction to Art

1. The variety of art: Artistic Perception
2. State framework/Scoring Rubics
3. The variety of art.
4. When is it Art?
5. Philosophy of Arts
6. Artwork as a class of objects
7. The aesthetic of objects
8. Intentions in art
9. The Art world

Unit II - What to Look for:   Creative Expression

1. Description
2. Knowing what to look for
3. Vocabulary
4. The Visual elements of art
5. Line
6. Descriptive line
7. Implied line
8. Expressive use line
9. Shape and form
10. Value
11. Light and dark
12. Value
13. Color
14. Hue
15. Value tints & shades
16. Color harmonies
17. Monochromatic
18. Analogous
19. Complementary
20. Triadic color
21. Expressive color
22. Space
23. Space in our environment
24. Space in three-dimensional art
25. Space in the picture plane
26. Representing space in two-dimensional art
27. Three-dimensional space in abstract painting
28. Texture and movement
29. Texture
30. Movement
31. How is it organized?
32. Analyzing what you see
33. Composition
34. Design
35. Unity
36. Variety
37. Dominance
38. Rhythm and movement
39. Balance

Unit III - Introduction to Media - Creative Expression

1. Two-dimensional media
2. Drawing
3. Painting
4. Mosaic
5. Printmaking
6. Photography and film
7. Video art
8. Mixed media
9. Three-dimensional media
10. Sculpture
11. Environmental art
12. Ceramics
13. Clay Properties and working with clay
14. Hand building
15. Pottery Wheel
16. Glazes and Firing

 

 

Unit IV - Careers in Art:   Connections, Relations, Applications

1. Architecture
2. Interior and display design
3. Graphic design
4. Industrial design
5. Fashion design
6. Film and television
7. Art education
8. Fine art
9. Crafts
10. Photography

 

Unit V - What is it Saying?  Cultural, Historical Contexts    

1. Interpretation: There is more to it than meets the eye
2. Interpretation and meaning
3. Art history
4. Non-Western Art I

1. Non-Western Art II
2. Islands of Time I
3. Island of Time II

                                                                                                                                               

Unit VI    In the Final Analysis - Aesthetic Valuing

1. Criticism and Critics
2. Professional Criticism
3. Non professional criticism
4. A Critical Method
5. Using the first three stages of the Critical Analysis Model Evaluation

 

METHODS OF EVALUATION

 

1. Classroom participation and artistic attitude
2. Written and verbal test
3. Critique by instructor and peers
4. Portfolio
5. Participation in public display
6. Written reflection
7. Evaluation of Art Work(s) by teacher
8. Studio and Visual arts assessment Rubric