Warwick School District

Course Description

Foundations of Printmaking is a semester-long course for students who have already completed the Essentials of Art course at Warwick High School. Students will learn about different forms of printmaking used in studio art disciplines through hands on assignments, art history, and classroom discussions.

Core Curriculum Content Standards

Arts and Humanities (2002)

• Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts

• GRADE 12

• Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities. Elements -Dance: • energy/force • space • time -Music: • duration • intensity • pitch • timbre -Theatre: • scenario • script/text • set design -Visual Arts: • color • form/shape • line • space • texture • value Principles -Dance: • choreography • form • genre • improvisation • style • technique -Music: • composition • form • genre • harmony • rhythm • texture -Theatre: • balance • collaboration • discipline • emphasis • focus • intention • movement • rhythm • style • voice -Visual Arts: • balance • contrast • emphasis/focal point • movement/rhythm • proportion/scale • repetition • unity/harmony(9.1.12.A)
• Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts. -Dance: • move • perform • read and notate dance • create and choreograph • improvise -Music: • sing • play an instrument • read and notate music • compose and arrange •improvise -Theatre: • stage productions • read and write scripts • improvise • interpret a role • design sets • direct -Visual Arts: • paint • draw • craft • sculpt • print • design for environment, communication, multi-media(9.1.12.B)
• Integrate and apply advanced vocabulary to the arts forms.(9.1.12.C)
• Delineate a unifying theme through the production of a work of art that reflects skills in media processes and techniques.(9.1.12.E)
• Analyze works of arts influenced by experiences or historical and cultural events through production, performance or exhibition.(9.1.12.F)
• Analyze the effect of rehearsal and practice sessions.(9.1.12.G)
• Analyze and evaluate the use of traditional and contemporary technologies in furthering knowledge and understanding in the humanities.(9.1.12.K)

• Historical and Cultural Contexts

• GRADE 12

• Explain the historical, cultural and social context of an individual work in the arts.(9.2.12.A)
• Relate works in the arts to varying styles and genre and to the periods in which they were created (e.g., Bronze Age, Ming Dynasty, Renaissance, Classical, Modern, Post-Modern, Contemporary, Futuristic, others).(9.2.12.C)
• Analyze a work of art from its historical and cultural perspective.(9.2.12.D)
• Analyze how historical events and culture impact forms, techniques and purposes of works in the arts (e.g., Gilbert and Sullivan operettas)(9.2.12.E)
• Identify, explain and analyze traditions as they relate to works in the arts (e.g., story telling – plays, oral histories- poetry, work songs- blue grass).(9.2.12.K)

• Critical Response

• GRADE 12

• Explain and apply the critical examination processes of works in the arts and humanities. -Compare and contrast -Analyze -Interpret -Form and test hypotheses -Evaluate/form judgments(9.3.12.A)
• Apply systems of classification for interpreting works in the arts and forming a critical response.(9.3.12.C)
• Analyze works in the arts by referencing the judgments advanced by arts critics as well as one’s own analysis and critique.(9.3.12.G)

• Aesthetic Response

• GRADE 12

• Evaluate an individual’s philosophical statement on a work in the arts and its relationship to one’s own life based on knowledge and experience.(9.4.12.A)
• Compare and contrast the attributes of various audiences’ environments as they influence individual aesthetic response (e.g., viewing traditional Irish dance at county fair versus the performance of River Dance in a concert hall).(9.4.12.C)

Units

Unit #1 - Elements and Principles of Design

Unit #2 - Printmaking Overview and Process

Unit #3 - Relief

Unit #4 - Collograph

Unit #5 - Monotype

Unit #6 - Etching

Unit #7 - Silkscreen/Serigraphy