ADVANCED PLACEMENT STUDIO ARTS 12
COURSE TIMELINE AND ASSIGNMENT
UNIT 1: THE CREATIVE PROCESS AND CAREERS IN ART
DUE September 23rd, 2022
Artists use their eyes, hands, minds, feelings and imagination when they create art. Their work can be as personal as expressing the love of a mother for her child or as practical as designing telephones. The kind of work artists create can make a difference in how they approach their work. For example, an industrial designer knows that products must be safe and attractive. If an artist creates an oil painting, changes can be made easily and quickly. An artist who welds sculpture in steel or who carves in stone must plan ahead, because changes are hard to make.
Art experts say that art is a link to our past and our gift to the future. Art depends on the creativity of artists and the sensitivity of the people who look at art. Without artists, there would be no gifts of art to the future.
After completing all the assignments in this section, you should be better able to:
Creating Art
WORDS YOU WILL LEARN:
DUE September 23rd, 2022
Artists use their eyes, hands, minds, feelings and imagination when they create art. Their work can be as personal as expressing the love of a mother for her child or as practical as designing telephones. The kind of work artists create can make a difference in how they approach their work. For example, an industrial designer knows that products must be safe and attractive. If an artist creates an oil painting, changes can be made easily and quickly. An artist who welds sculpture in steel or who carves in stone must plan ahead, because changes are hard to make.
Art experts say that art is a link to our past and our gift to the future. Art depends on the creativity of artists and the sensitivity of the people who look at art. Without artists, there would be no gifts of art to the future.
After completing all the assignments in this section, you should be better able to:
Creating Art
- Understand the creative process in art.
- Understand the variety of careers in art.
- Judge your interest in art as a career.
- Understand the meaning of aesthetic perception.
- Understand why people create art.
- Appreciate differences in the way artists from different cultures learn about art.
- Understand the importance of work done by art historians.
- Understand the importance of evaluation in the creative process.
- Understand the role of art critics and other people in the art world.
WORDS YOU WILL LEARN:
- Creative Process
- Symbolic Thinking
- Careers in Art
- Aesthetic Perception
- Invention
- Imagination
- Folk Art
LESSON 1: Creativity in Art
LESSON 2: Is is Art
LESSON 3: Education and Training in Art
LESSON 4: Career Awareness
LESSON 5: The Creative Process and Careers in Art Review
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 1-1: Why we Make Art
LESSON 2: Is is Art
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-1: Art Criticism
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-2: Should Art be Beautiful?
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-3: Does Art Have to Tell A Story?
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-4: Should Art Be Realistic
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-5: Which Comes First, the Art or the Idea?
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-6: Does Art Express Emotions?
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-7: Is Art an Object or is it a Process?
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-8: What is the Difference between Art and Popular Culture?
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 2-9: Can Art Change Society?
LESSON 3: Education and Training in Art
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 3-1: Demonstrate your Understanding
LESSON 4: Career Awareness
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 4-1: Career Awareness
LESSON 5: The Creative Process and Careers in Art Review
- Unit 1 Sketchbook Assignment 5-1: Review
UNIT 2: BEGINNING THE SUSTAINED INVESTIGATION
DUE October 28th, 2022
After completing this section, you will be able to:
WORDS YOU WILL LEARN:
DUE October 28th, 2022
After completing this section, you will be able to:
- Developing Ideas and Subject Matter
- Understanding Sustained Investigation
- Understand Appropriation and Plagiarism
WORDS YOU WILL LEARN:
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MEANING
Understandings:
Essential Questions:
ACQUISITION
Knowledge: Students will know...
Skills: Students will be able to...
LESSON 6: Sustained Investigation
Students are expected to complete 13 additional art works for their sustained investigation. Students should schedule to complete ONE art work per 2 week period. AP PORTFOLIO IS DUE: MONDAY, MAY 1st (15 ART WORKS)
Understandings:
- Artists’ and designers’ work is often driven by inquiry. Artists and designers generate questions related to their experiences. They select materials, processes, and ideas to investigate, guided by their questions. They make work through practice, experimentation, and revision using selected components, developing skills in connecting materials, processes, and ideas within their work.
- Artists work in series to think deeply about a topic or issue and explore it from many angles.
- Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative art-making goals.
- Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Essential Questions:
- What informs why, how, and what artists and designers make?
- How do artists create evocative work?
- Why do artists choose to work in series?
- How can an artist create a “style,” and what is “artistic voice?”
- What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?
- What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
- How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?
- What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work?
ACQUISITION
Knowledge: Students will know...
- A sustained investigation thought art and design is an inquiry-based, in-depth study of materials, processes, and ideas done over time. Sustained investigation expands artists’ and designers’ awareness of possibilities for making. Investigation includes asking questions about materials, processes, and ideas within and beyond the disciplines of art and design. A question is words used to find information. Questions can be as simple as asking who, what, when, where, why, how, what if, and why not.
- Sustained investigation is guided by questions. It involves research: discovering or verifying information. Investigation includes perception, curiosity, examination, discovery, imagination, interpretation, description, and conversation. Investigation can confirm and challenge thinking, revealing connections and opportunities.
- Artists use a variety of criteria to select and guide their idea generation and exploration.
- Questions are continually formulated, documented (visually and with writing), developed, and evaluated throughout a sustained investigation. Investigation and making often inspire more questions. Learning and discovery during the investigation can lead to refinement of questions.
Skills: Students will be able to...
- Generate lists of potential ideas.
- Formulate and select questions to guide practice, experimentation, and revision.
- Reflect on experiences to generate inquiry questions.
- Navigate between closed and open-ended questions.
- Evaluate the feasibility of different topics.
- Create planning sketches.
- Conduct experiments using different artistic media.
- Conduct artistic research.
- Present a variety of artistic ideas to their peers.
LESSON 6: Sustained Investigation
- Unit 2 Assignment 6-1: Sustained Investigation Topic Proposal (DUE OCT. 3rd)
- Unit 2 Assignment 6-2: Sustained Investigation Mini Series (DUE OCT. 28th)
Students are expected to complete 13 additional art works for their sustained investigation. Students should schedule to complete ONE art work per 2 week period. AP PORTFOLIO IS DUE: MONDAY, MAY 1st (15 ART WORKS)
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UNIT 3: THE LANGUAGE OF ART
DUE June 23rd, 2023
Students are also expected to work on their sketchbook while working on their sustained investigation and the months after the portfolio are due.
To learn how a watch works, you might take it apart and study the pieces. While the parts are spread out before you, however, the watch cannot run. Only when the parts an in place will the familiar ticking tell you the watch is working. Like watches, works of art are made up of parts. When an artist skillfully puts the pieces of an art work together, it succeeds as art. That means that the parts work together to make a unified and visually pleasing whole. In this chapter you will learn about these parts and how they can be organized, as in the painting at the left, to make a pleasing whole.
WORDS THAT YOU WILL LEARN:
DUE June 23rd, 2023
Students are also expected to work on their sketchbook while working on their sustained investigation and the months after the portfolio are due.
To learn how a watch works, you might take it apart and study the pieces. While the parts are spread out before you, however, the watch cannot run. Only when the parts an in place will the familiar ticking tell you the watch is working. Like watches, works of art are made up of parts. When an artist skillfully puts the pieces of an art work together, it succeeds as art. That means that the parts work together to make a unified and visually pleasing whole. In this chapter you will learn about these parts and how they can be organized, as in the painting at the left, to make a pleasing whole.
WORDS THAT YOU WILL LEARN:
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ARTIST YOU WILL MEET:
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LESSON 7: Elements of Art
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-1: Expressive Quality of Line
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-2: Media
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-3: Found Lines
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-4: Parallel Lines and Expanding Arcs
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-5: Parallel Lines and Geometric Shapes
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-6: Lines and Organic Shapes
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-7: Contour Drawing
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-8: Related Shapes
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-9: Texture and Pattern (Natural Rubbings)
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-10: Texture and Pattern (Man-Made Rubbings)
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-11: Texture and Pattern (Implied Exercises)
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-12: Texture and Pattern (Implied Drawing)
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-13: Value Grid Graphite
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-14: Value Grid Pen
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-15: Value Forms Graphite
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-16: Value Forms Pen
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-17: Pointillism Graphite
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-18: Value Bottle Graphite Drawing
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-19: Value Distorted Bottle Graphite Drawing
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-20: Value Bottle Drawing in Medium of Choice
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-21: Colour Wheel
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-22: Primary Colours
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-23: Complementary Colours
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-24: Monochromatic Colours
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-25: Warm Colours
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-26: Cool Colours
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 7-27: Non-Objective Art
LESSON 8: The Principles of Design
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-1: Demonstrate your Understanding
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-2: Type of Balance
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-3: Balance Examples
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-4: One-Point Perspective Cube
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-5: One-Point Perspective Block Letters
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-6: One-Point Perspective Alphabet
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-7: Two-Point Perspective Boxes
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-8: Two-Point Perspective House
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-9: Two-Point Perspective Intersection
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-10: Two-Point Perspective with a Third Vanishing Point
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-11: Two-Point Perspective Rectilinear Forms
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-12: Principles and Design in Practice
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-13: Building your Vocabulary Review
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-14: Reviewing Art Facts
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-15: Thinking About Art
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-16: Making Art Connections
- Unit 3 Sketchbook Assignment 8-17: Looking at the Details
