Embedded Files
Some of the aspects and mediums we will work with are listed below. Of course depending on curriculum changes and decisions at a departmental level, some of these assignments may be substituted and altered.
Positive Negative Space
Organic/Inorganic Shapes –Distinct forms and the spaces between those forms.
Notan Design – Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark as they are placed next to the other in art and imagery. Beginning with 6x6” black square.
Key Concepts: Positive Negative Space, Organic/Inorganic Shapes
Basic Drawing
Line –establishing boundaries, separates areas and creates edges. By its direction and weight, a line creates a sense of movement and volume
Contour – outline of a figure, body or mass; surface of a curving form.
Shading – depicting depth perception in 3D models or illustrations by varying levels of value.
Edge – rim or border, the place where two objects meet.
Gesture –capturing the essence of subject, rather than to present a realistic rendering
Background (negative space) meets surface of objects.
Shapes to form, smaller still lifes, narrow scope projects of specific drawing skills
Still Life – Applying traditional drawing skills to render a realistic scene through imagery that utilizes the drawing techniques learned in this unit.
Key Concepts: Line, Contour, Shading, Gesture, Negative Space
Color Theory
Primary colors- Basic colors on color wheel; red, yellow and blue. These colors cannot be made by mixing Secondary colors- colors that are made by mixing two primary colors together. Orange, green and violet. Tertiary colors- colors that are made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color. Hue- the name of the color. Intensity- the brightness or dullness of a color. Value- the darkness or lightness of a color (Value Scale 1”x1” squares) Tints- are created by adding white to a color Shades- are created by adding black to a color Warm/Cool Colors – (red orange, yellow) & (violet, blue, and green) Analogous colors- are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel Complementary colors- are colors found directly across from each other on the color wheel.
Color Wheel
Tint Shade Exercise– Each area where lines cross will be altered to a new tint or shade. Painting Assignment- Selection of various methods (i.e. Figure Design, Magazine Extension or Close up)
Key Concepts: Hue, Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, Tertiary Colors, Value, Tints, Neutrals, Shades
Warm/Cool colors, Analagous colors & Complimentary colors.
Linear Perspective
Perspective - Giving the illusion of a three dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. Horizon Line – A theoretical line representing the point at which land and sky meet (viewer’s eye level). Vanishing points - points (usually) on the horizon line where orthogonal lines meet. Orthogonal Lines -Straight diagonal lines drawn to the edges of a picture to the vanishing points). Picture plane - the "window" that is represented by the picture. Aerial/atmospheric perspective - the depiction of space by gradations of tones, shapes and colors. Things become more and more muted and indistinct as they diminish into the distance of the atmosphere.
One Point Perspective exercise Two Point Perspective exercise
Interior Space Drawing - Parallel Perspective design. The viewer is parallel to the objects will be created. Vertical lines and horizontal lines are parallel as well as the back edges of objects that recede in the distance.
Key concepts: Perspective, Horizon Line, Vanishing point, Orthogonal Lines, Picture plane, Aerial/atmospheric, Pattern, Shading
Exercises: One Point Perspective exercise, Two Point Perspective exercise
Assignment: Interior Space Drawing
Industrial Painting
4x6” design inspired by the work of Stephen Magsig. Magsig’s work has a feeling for the light and color that goes well beyond just rendering a photo into paint. Industrial landscapes, storefronts and the architectural details engage the viewer with the play of the geometry of the big shapes and color notes that emphasis his underlying abstract composition.
Utilize the Ashcan School and influences like: Edward Hopper, Fairfield Porter, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, James McNeil Whistler, Richard Diebenkorn, Charles Demuth, & Eric Fischl.
Industrial Painting - The small works have historically been used as studies for the larger paintings. Students will keep the intensity and artistic rigor in composition, value, design and tether it to the simplification of the smaller work while simultaneously having the dynamism of detail oftentimes lost in the larger spaces.
4x6” design inspired by the work of Stephen Magsig.
Key Concepts: Perspective, Abstract Composition, Scale, Urban Landscape excluding people or movement (exclusively buildings/structures), expanded palette
Art Historical Reference: Ashcan School, Edward Hopper, Fairfield Porter, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, James McNeil Whistler, Richard Diebenkorn, Charles Demuth, & Eric Fischl.
Optical Art
In October of 1964, Time Magazine coined the phrase "Optical Art.” The term referenced the fact that Op Art is comprised of illusion, and often appears - to the human eye - to be moving or breathing due to its precise, mathematically-based composition.
Utilize artists like: Richard Anuszkiewicz, Josef Albers, Yacov Agam, Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely &Richard Allen.
Optical Drawing – Design using a square 12” x 12” border. Design will incorporate the tenants of optical art and keep the clean, crisp lines in order for the work to respond with the viewer.
Key Concepts: Optical Illusion, Perception, Ambiguous Images, Undulating lines, Perspective, Non Objective Art
Art Historical Reference: Richard Anuszkiewicz, Josef Albers, Yacov Agam, Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely & Richard Allen.
Medieval Art
Illumination comes from the Latin word illuminare, meaning “light up,” and when one sees one of these brilliant manuscripts in person, the term makes sense. The earliest surviving illuminated manuscripts date from the 5th century, though it was not until about 1100 that the production of manuscripts began to flourish in earnest. This “golden age” of manuscript illumination lasted until the arrival of Gutenberg’s printing press in 1450-55
Utilize pieces such as: The Book of Kells or The Book of Hours
Historiated Initial – This design commonly drawn from the illuminated manuscripts from antiquity, will have students create a Historiated initial and include the design elements learned in the unit plan. This enlarged, introductory letter in a written word that contains within the body of the letter.
Key Concepts: Historiated Initial Pattern Lettering/Calligraphy Symbolism
Art Historical Reference: The Book of Kells or The Book of Hours
Impressionism
In 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. The group was unified only by its independence from the official annual Salon and these artists, despite their diverse approaches to painting, appeared to contemporaries as a group. While conservative critics panned their work for its unfinished, sketch like appearance, more progressive writers praised it for its depiction of modern life. Their work is recognized today for its modernity, embodied in its rejection of established styles, its incorporation of new technology and ideas, and its depiction of modern life. It demonstrates the techniques many of the independent artists adopted: short, broken brushstrokes that barely convey forms, pure unblended colors, and an emphasis on the effects of light. Rather than neutral white, grays, and blacks, Impressionists often rendered shadows and highlights in color
Utilize artists such as: Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro
Impressionism Landscape (oil pastel, pastel or watercolor) where students will depict landscapes with the illusion of depth and space by properly laying out compositional elements in the foreground, middle ground, and background. They will use concepts such as aerial perspective, overlapping shapes, and placing larger objects in the foreground to create the illusion of space. The mediums selected will create texture and formulate lighting effects in the composition of a rural landscape.
Key Concepts: Broken color, “Painting Light”, Mark Making, Optical mixing, Movement, Plein Air Painting Complementary Colors
Art Historical Reference: Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro
Cubism Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Georges Braque had painted in 1908. He called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works "cubes." Other influences on early Cubism have been linked to Primitivism.
A Cubist painting ignores the traditions of perspective drawing and shows many views simultaneously. The Cubists were influenced by art from other cultures, particularly African masks.
Two distinct phases of the Cubist Style: Analytical Cubism (pre 1912) and Synthetic Cubism (post 1912). Cubism influenced many other styles of modern art including Orphism, Futurism, Vorticism, Suprematism, Constructivism and Expressionism.
Utilize artists such as: Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Umberto Boccioni
Cubist Still Life – Students will create a composition showing multiple views of various objects -- fracturing the planes in the manner of the cubists. This composition will include a variety of textures - developing interest through contrast and added elements, as well as developing skills in shading using both white and black to show values.
Key Concepts: Non-Representational/Representational Abstract Art, Binocular Vision, Monochromatic Palette, Collage, Distortion
Art Historical Reference: Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Umberto Boccioni
Art Nouveau
Art nouveau could be said to be the first 20th century modern style. It was the first style to stop looking backwards in history for ideas, taking inspiration instead from what it saw around it, in particular the natural world. It is viewed by some as the first self-conscious attempt to create a modern style. Its influence can be found in painting, sculpture, jewelry, metalwork, glass and ceramics.
Utilize artists such as: Gustave Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley, Victor Horta, Paul Hankar, Alphonse Mucha, Jules Chéret, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Art Noveau scratchboard – The students will create a design ostensibly as a reproductions of works by Klimt and other artists of this era - especially those that are highly embellished and ornamental since this assignment will rely upon the gold or silver embossed scratchboard to enhance its grandeur.
Key Concepts:, Pattern, Motif, Border Design, Decorative Art
Art Historical Reference: Gustave Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley, Victor Horta, Paul Hankar, Alphonse Mucha, Jules Chéret, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Pop Art/ Wayne Thiebaud Rendering
While part and parcel of the Pop-Artists, He belongs more to a classical tradition of painting than to the Pop revolution that first propelled him to national attention in the 1960s. Where Warhol was cool and ironic, Thiebaud is warm and gently comic, playing on a collective nostalgia just this side of sentimentality. He experiments with brushstrokes, color, composition, light and shadow. His paintings owed more to such masters as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, or Giorgio Morandi, than to the art trends of the time.
Thiebaud Design – Students will create an oil pastel piece based upon the work of this master.
Key Concepts: Color, Composition, Repetition, Texture, LightingArt Historical Reference: Wayne Thiebaud
Visit ARC Templates now!
Page updated
Report abuse