Warwick School District

Course Description

This course is a semester-long course for students with no prior art experience at Warwick High School. Essentials of Art will cover a variety of materials, focusing on elements and principles of design through the production of two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork. 

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)
• Incorporate the effective and safe use of materials, equipment and tools into the production of works in the arts at work and performance spaces. -Evaluate the use and applications of materials. -Evaluate issues of cleanliness related to the arts. -Evaluate the use and applications of mechanical/electrical equipment. -Evaluate differences among selected physical space/environment. -Evaluate the use and applications of safe props/stage equipment. -Evaluate the use and apply safe methods for storing materials in the arts.(9.1.12.H)

• 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 chronologically to historical events (e.g., 10,000 B.C. to present).(9.2.12.B)
• Analyze a work of art from its historical and cultural perspective.(9.2.12.D)
• 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)
• Determine and apply criteria to a person’s work and works of others in the arts (e.g., use visual scanning techniques to critique the student’s own use of sculptural space in comparison to Julio Gonzales’ use of space in Woman Combing Her Hair).(9.3.12.B)
• Apply systems of classification for interpreting works in the arts and forming a critical response.(9.3.12.C)

• Aesthetic Response

• GRADE 12

• Analyze and interpret a philosophical position identified in works in the arts and humanities.(9.4.12.D)

Units

Unit #1 - Line (Drawing)

Unit #2 - Value (Drawing)

Unit #3 - Color (Painting)

Unit #4 - Sculpture (3-D)

Unit #5 - Printmaking