AP Art and Design (12)
Full Yr., 1 Cr.
Pre-requisite: Drawing and Painting II or Advanced Media & Digital Photography
Course Description:
This is a full-year course developed to accommodate students who have demonstrated a strong interest and commitment to excel in computer generated artwork. These students will complete an AP 2-D Art and Design portfolio with an emphasis on computer generated media. Research, regularly oral and written critiques will be integral parts of this course. All students will submit a portfolio at the end of the course that has followed the AP Art and Design Portfolio Submission requirements.
With direct teacher instruction, the emphasis will be placed on the development of the AP Portfolio. The students will complete both sections (Sustained Investigation and Selected Work Quality Section) of the portfolio. This course will emphasize ongoing documented experimentation with design concepts, composition, and media that uses Design Journals (sketchbooks). Students will use their sketchbooks daily, and they will be the core source of ideation and documentation of their artmaking. Artist growth, ideas, and final artworks will be investigated through the use of these books.
As a part of this course, students must develop their own personal voice. Mastery of concepts, composition, execution, varied art mediums, mixed media, and themes, concepts, subject matter, and content are an expected outcome. Students will understand that creating and developing art is a constant, ongoing activity that involves personal decision making. Students will understand that in order to for their artwork to achieve quality in concept, composition, and execution, it includes much risk taking, experimenting, and research. This risk-taking process will be documented in their sketchbooks. Throughout the course students are encourages to work from their individual direct life observation of things in their world, their environment, their dreams, and personal interests.
A student enrolled in Drawing & Painting I can expect to learn the following within a full school year:
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the elements of art and principles of design through an investigative experimentation of ideas, materials, and processes using electronic media in conjunction with traditional art mediums, materials, and processes.
Learn and value the investigative process of recording ideas, solving problems, and using these ideas for artwork creating.
Use decision making skills to assess visual problems.
Become an active communicator in the artmaking process with self,
instructors, peers, and the art community.
Develop a Sustained Investigation—a personal investigation (body of artwork) that focuses on a special area of visual problems to solve.
Develop and choose five high-quality works that are excellent in concept, composition and execution to submit for the Selected Works section in theirfinal portfolio.
Explore postsecondary options for art making.