BASIC ACADEMY VISUAL ARTS
OUR CURRICULUM
What you are going to be doing this year
By creating a safe, open-minded, and welcoming environment, Basic Academy Visual Arts helps to foster the confidence and curiosity of our students. Each course is enriched with hands-on experiences and activities, providing ample opportunities for pupils to improve their knowledge-base while developing other skills. Check out the classes being offered at Basic Academy Visual Arts below. The Google classroom is is5kz2m
Course Goals
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Course Goals
Upon completion of this course, the student will:
1. Acquire and use working vocabulary that can be used in multiple fields of study and occupation.
2. Gain real world knowledge that can be apply to their specific topic of study.
3. Become proficient in the tools, techniques, and practices of the study of aesthetics.
4. Develop skills that are necessary to investigate and perceive the world around them.
5. Work in a self-disciplined manner in completing art projects within a specific time.
6. Develop individual expression and aesthetic.
7. Compile an advanced placement portfolio. Prepare to take the AP class the following year.
8. Â Understand how to critique and evaluate art.
Course Out Look
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Course Topics
Art in your world: Understanding the history, importance and need for Art in your world.
Enjoying art: Understanding the purpose of art and how it affects your life. (And you didn’t even know it.)
Exploring Art Media: Understanding the tools, techniques, and usage of different media.
Elements of Art: Understanding the basic components that one combines with principles of design to construct art.
Principles of Art: Understanding the rules, tools, guidelines that artists use to organize the elements in an artwork.
You, the art critic: Understanding art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty.
Art history and you: Understanding the history, techniques, and trade of throughout history.
Art of today: Understanding how art, through propaganda, movies, clothing, and street art continues to affects us.
Projects
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Course Outline
Schedule subject to change according to classroom needs.
Point of View Drawing: will understand how to draw from an extreme point of view.
Name Plate: will design a nameplate based on their personality.
Painting Non-objective: will learn how paint a non-objective piece of artwork.
Texture Tree: using words as a mean to show value in artwork.
Perspective Drawing: will learn how to use 1 point perspective room. Packet.
Color Value in Cubism: will learn how paint in a Cubism format.
Haiku: After reading haiku and learning about this short form of Japanese poetry, students will write and illustrate their own haiku poems.
Printmaking: will learn how to use linoleum.
Tessellation: Follow M. C. Escher the students will design a Tessellation
Op Art: will learn the importance Op Art and how to produce one.
Watercolor silhouette: will learn how to paint in watercolor.
Linear perspective: will learn how to draw the interior of a house using one point perspective.
Knee high Sculpture: will learn to use a knee high to make a unique sculpture .
Still Life Drawing: will understand the fundamentals of drawing by measuring.
Surrealistic Landscape: will learn how to setup and draw a surrealistic landscape.
Making a mixed media Self-portrait: Will learn how to use different media on a single painting.
Leaf Drawing: Will learn and use four different drawing methods.
Pablo Picasso Portrait: Understanding the art movement known as Cubism