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Welcome to Grade Twelve Visual Arts
Welcome to Grade Twelve Visual Arts
This course focuses on enabling students to refine their use of the creative process when creating and presenting two- and three-dimensional art works using a variety of traditional and emerging media technologies. Students will use the critical analysis process to deconstruct art works and explore connections between art and society. The studio program enables students to explore a wide range of materials, processes, and techniques that can be applied in their own art production. Students will also make connections between various works of art in personal, contemporary, historical, and cultural contexts.
Prerequisite: Visual Arts, Grade 9, 10 or 11, Open.
Stories and Rituals
Stories and Rituals
Graphite Drawing
Graphite Drawing
After reviewing techniques, completing value exercises and reviewing facial proportions, this piece allows students to problem solve and engage in the creative process. Drawing inspiration from ancient myths, they will find connections between past and present while also learning some important life lessons.
Postmodern Myth
Postmodern Myth
Watercolour
Watercolour
Using mixed and experimental media, students create a new (postmodern-style) myth based on the mash-up of one ancient myth along with a current event (that somehow relates to the ancient myth with which the student has chosen to work). A word is added to attempt to encapsulate the artwork’s prevailing atmosphere. Life is indeed a story; however, what is the TRUTH?
Person, Place and Thing
Person, Place and Thing
Acrylic Painting
Acrylic Painting
In preparation for this piece students will research myths, practice drawing body and facial proportions, and review concepts of linear and non-linear proportion. Once again in the spirit of postmodern ideology, they will combine symbolism from a story or legend and relate the story, through imagery, to a current event.
Word and Deed (Final Project)
Word and Deed (Final Project)
Mixed Media/ Sculpture
Mixed Media/ Sculpture
Students will review the concept of mixed-media and appropriate their knowledge of "microcosm" and "macrocosm" to create a myth-based, large-scale, symbolically-charged, storytelling culminating piece that features a predominant sculptural element.
Art Notes
Art Notes
Mixed Media
Mixed Media
Throughout the course, students will study art pieces and periods, answering questions along the way. They will learn about famous painters of the time, and get to represent the artists styles in symbols that they create. These notes will lead up to the students' major projects, giving them the knowledge needed to complete the project. Any media can be used for the notes, as students can design them however they would like.
Art History
Art History
This year students will look at paintings, drawings, sculpture and architecture from Post World War One Modernism to the Pop Art styles of the 1960's and Conceptual trends of the early 1970's. Great artists such as Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Mythology is also a very big part of this year and students will be able to research and explore stories that share a timeless message. They will also be able to test their ability to combine past and present through these art eras and translate some of the styles into the pieces themselves.
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