Grade 12
About Grade Twelve Art
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.
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.
Postmodern Myth
Watercolour
Students learn the concept of Postmodernism and how the amalgamation of "unoriginal" ideas can create something new. Students use a combination of text and images to tell a story and compare symbolism from an ancient myth to a current socio-political event through a watercolour painting.
Person, Place and Thing
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 perspective. Once again in the spirit of postmodern ideology, students will combine symbolism from a story or legend and relate the story, through imagery, to a current event.
Final Culminating Project
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.