Grade 11
About Grade Eleven Art
This course enables students to further develop their knowledge and skills in visual arts. Students will use the creative process to explore a wide range of themes through studio work that may include drawing, painting, sculpting, and print-making, as well as the creation of collage, multimedia works, and works using emerging technologies. Students will use the critical analysis process when evaluating their own work and the work of others.
Prerequisite: Visual Arts, Grade 9 or 10, Open
Art History
From Italian Baroque to French Impressionism, students will learn about the great artists and their techniques. Some of the great artists we learn about this year include famous names such as Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and many more. Artists like this shaped the world around them using signature techniques like chiaroscuro and made extraordinary pieces of art that people all around the globe can recognize. Learning about these artists and their works will help students understand how their art can make a mark on the world too.
Beauty Is Truth
Graphite Drawing
After reviewing shading techniques, completing value exercises, and reviewing how to draw body proportions, students will problem solve and engage in the creative process via sketchbook drawing. Students will transform the written word to imagery from a poem originating in the Romantic era.
Juxtaposition
Acrylic Painting
After completing an exercise on blending acrylic tints, tones and shades, students will insert themselves into a famous painting of their choosing from any of the art movements they have learned so far. The students are challenged to create juxtaposition by including a green energy source, a piece of modern technology and a musical reference somewhere within their work.
Heroic Architecture
Printmaking / Mixed-Media
In preparation for their final project, students will learn the procedures (and safety tips!) involved in linoleum block carving. The students will choose a famous piece of architecture to carve, then use their carvings to print the image on rice paper using the school's printmaking machine. For their final project, the students will incorporate this print into a mixed-media piece using the elements and principles of art to create a heroic battle scene.
Notebook Sketches
Mixed-Media
Sketchbooks include not only art history and theory notes, but also coloured symbols that represent a theoretical or historic concept the student is learning. Studio-based art thumbnail sketches and worked-up sketches should also be completed in the sketchbook (according to expectations).
Process is as important as product in our art class.
Students are encouraged to add colour and creativity to everything they put into their sketchbook.