Art

Reflection

Component 6: QUALITIES AND DETAILS: Students will employ surface qualities for specific effects.

Concepts

A. Colour harmonies affect the mood and feeling of the viewer.

B. Tonal interchanges enhance a work.

C. Distinguishing characteristics of things can be portrayed vividly or subtly.

D. The character of marks is influenced by drawing or painting tools and methods.

Expression

Component 10 (i)

PURPOSE 1: Students will record or document activities, people and discoveries.

Concepts

B. Special events, such as field trips, visits and festive occasions can be recorded visually.

D. Knowledge gained from study or experimentation can be recorded visually.

PURPOSE 2: Students will illustrate or tell a story

Concepts

C. Material from any subject discipline can be illustrated visually

PURPOSE 3. Students will decorate items personally created.

Concepts:

A. Details, patterns or textures can be added to two-dimensional works.

PURPOSE 5: Students will create an original composition, object or space based on supplied motivation.

Concepts:

Outside stimulation from sources such as music, literature, photographs, film, creative movement, drama, television and computers can be interpreted visually.

Component 10 (ii) SUBJECT MATTER:

Students will develop themes, with an emphasis on global awareness, based on:

A. Plants and animals

B. Environments and places

E. People

Component 10 (iii) MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES: Students will use media and techniques, with an emphasis on more indirect complex procedures and effects in drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, fabric arts, photography and technographic arts.

Concepts

B. Painting

• Continue to strive for more sophistication in brush skills by using techniques learned in earlier years.
• Continue to paint, using experimental methods including without a brush.
• Mix and use colour tones to achieve perspective.
• Use analogous colours, colours close to each other on the colour wheel, to harmonize the colours of the composition.

C. Print Making

• Further explore print-making materials and their uses and effects.
• Continue to use print-making techniques learned in lower grades.
• Make prints by using incised (carved or indented) surfaces—wood, soap, wax, erasers, plaster of Paris, clay, styrofoam.
• Use prepared brayers or rollers to make pattern.
• Apply printing techniques to composition, including block-out techniques, combination of types of printing, and use of more than one colour

F. Photography and Technographic Arts

• Take advantage of the visual art implications of any available technological device and explore the potential of emerging technologies. Included at this level, and advancing from previous grades:
• simple camera used for specific purposes such as close-ups, medium shots, long shots of same subject matter; various viewpoints, action, composition

Government of Alberta. (1985). Art grades 1 – 6. Retrieved from http://www.learnalberta.ca/ProgramOfStudy.aspx?lang=en&ProgramId=238679#