Warwick School District

Course Description

Foundations of Drawing is a semester-long course for students who have already completed the Essentials of Art course at Warwick High School. Students will learn about drawing issues with color and non-color drawing materials through hands on assignments used in a studio arts classroom.  

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)
• Demonstrate specific styles in combination through the production or performance of a unique work of art (e.g., a dance composition that combines jazz dance and African dance).(9.1.12.D)
• 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)

• 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 philosophical beliefs as they relate to works in the arts (e.g., classical architecture, rock music, Native American dance, contemporary American musical theatre).(9.2.12.I)
• Identify, explain and analyze common themes, forms and techniques from works in the arts (e.g., Copland and Graham’s Appalachian Spring and Millet’s The Gleaners).(9.2.12.L)

• 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)
• Analyze the processes of criticism used to compare the meanings of a work in the arts in both its own and present time.(9.3.12.F)

• 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 of Art & Principles of Design

Unit #2 - Abstract and Compositional Drawing

Unit #3 - Observational Drawing

Unit #4 - Imaginative and Surreal Drawing

Unit #5 - Photographic Drawing and Grid

Unit #6 - Collaborative and Group Drawing