Week 1
Introduction to Advanced Placement Studio Art requirements, critique methods, documenting works in
progress, discussion about plagerism and artist integrity
Major Assignments & Assessments
Summer assignments: eight sketches in student's choice of media, living artist report, museum journal;
past work review with partner/peer for possible Portfolio inclusion and possible Concentration ideas, icebreaker activities: Upturned Fruit Basket, Truth Truth Lie, Magazine Exquisite Corpse; students define Breadth, Quality, and Concentration work based on College Board website and AP art poster;
Week 2
Still Life drawing techniques: charcoal gestures, blind contours, erased graphite & chiaroscuro
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #1: Still life drawing inspired by the works of Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Pamela Michelle Johnson, Gustave Caillebotte
Week 3
Trompe l'oeil shading, aerial perspective
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #2: Trompe l'oeil aerial perspective colored pencil drawing inspired by the works of Julian Beever, John Pugh, Alan Magee, J. D, Hillberry, Janet Fish, Audrey Flack
Week 4
Golden Mean, Rule of Thirds, design and composition techniques, repetition
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #3: Stylized/ Abstract still life in acrylic inspired by the works of Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, George Rodrique, David Hockney
Week 5
Abstract art, Cubism, Futurism, Concentration ideation
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #4: Still life or figurative work in watercolor pencils or oil pastels inspired by the works of
LyubovPopova, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Kazimir Malevich, Fernand Léger;
view successful student and professional artist Concentration works: Zhu Yiyong, Igor Zaytsev, Yuri & Boris
Kudryavtsev-Dobrohotov, Daniel Merriam, Helen Frankenthaler, Rob Gonsalves, Charles Burchfield,
Caspar David Friedrich, Peter Max. View and expand lists of Concentration ideas; independently explore
media for inspiration, continue to record in words and sketches Concentration ideas.
Week 6
Visualizing music, non-representational art
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #5: A work in oil paint inspired by the music of the student's choice and also inspired by the works of Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Romare Bearden
Week 7
compare Rococo and Impressionist landscapes, en plein air techniques, working with value and temperature of color
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #6: pastel, watercolor, and ink landscapes inspired by the works of Claude Monet, Emily Carr,
Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Henri Matisse
Week 8
Greek architecture, oil painting
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #7: architectural view or close-up in oil, inspired by Greek and local architecture and the works of
M. C. Escher, Canaletto, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler
Week 9
figure drawing studies in charcoal and acrylic: gesture, emotion, group studies, Concentration ideation
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #8: figurative work in charcoal and acrylic inspired by the works of Kathe Kollwitz,
Pre-Raphaelite artists, Norman Rockwell, Diego Rivera, Grant Wood, ZenaAssi; submit preliminary proposal and one or two sketches for Concentration and present to peers for "+-Δ" critique
Week 10
chiaroscuro and contrapposto figures
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #9: figurative drawing in ink, pastel, crayon, and charcoal inspired by classical Greek figurative
sculpture, and the works of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Peter Paul Rubens
Week 11
figurative painting with a model
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #10: figurative painting in acrylic inspired by the works of Gustav Klimt, Frida Kahlo, Georges Roualt,
Paul Gauguin, Beauford Delaney
Weeks 12 & 13
reduction block print or multiple block print, Concentration ideation
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #11: block print portrait in ink inspired by the works of Chuck Close, David C. Driskell,
Stephen Alcorn; Submit second proposal and three to seven sketches for Concentration for peer critique
Week 14
foreshortening and unusual perspectives in figure painting,
Final Exam/Art show assignments instructions
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth # 12: figurative painting in student's choice of medium inspired by the works of Andrea Mantegna,
Salvador Dali, Robert Campin, David Siquieros, Manga artists
Week 15
Painting Realism to Abstraction
Major Assignments & Assessments
Breadth #13: Genre painting in student's choice of medium inspired by the works of Rob Gonsalves,
Robert Yarber, Winslow Homer, Henry Tanner, George Bellows, Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Jan Vermeer,
Hokusai, Hiroshige, Persian miniature painters
Week 16
Symbolism, Final Exam/Art Show Display is due Tuesday, January 6!
Major Assignments & Assessments
All Breadth assignments due, Breadth #14: (if there is time and necessity) A work in media of the student's choice depicting a contemporary social issue using symbolism, euphemism, inspired by the works of
Gianlorenzo Bernini, Jacques-Louis David, Diego Velazquez, Francisco Goya
Week 17
Concentration Ideation, Art Show is Wednesday, January 14, 3-7pm in the Media Center
Major Assignments & Assessments
Art show display, celebration of first semester accomplishments:
play Comic Jam (like Exquisite Corpse); Final Concentration proposal and presentation to class for final critique before production. Proposal must include:
a. a specific, strong, underlying visual idea,
b. thought processes, media, techniques, and inspiration that lead to ideation,
c. eight to thirteen sketches,
d. a demonstration of how, specifically, the proposed artworks explore the underlying visual idea,
e. a student plan of action, including a timeline for completing these works, materials needed, additional
learning required, when and where students will work on the assignment outside of class time (before or
after school in artroom or home, homeroom, lunchtime).
Week 18
Concentration #1 with peer-assessment
Week 19
Concentration #2 with self-assessment
Week 20
Concentration #3 with peer-assessment
Week 21
Concentration #4 with group critique
Weeks 22 & 23
Concentration #5 with self-assessment
Week 24
Concentration #6 with peer-assessment
Week 25
Concentration #7 with group critique
Week 26
Concentration #8 with self-assessment
Weeks 27 & 28
Concentration #9 with peer-assessment
Week 29
Concentration #10 with group critique
Week 30
Concentration #11 with self-assessment
Week 31
Concentration #12 with peer-assessment
Week 32
Concentration #13 with group critique
Week 33
Artist statement and Quality entry choices
Final Artist Statement, Breadth, Quality, and Concentration works due, selecting and documenting,
preparing for sending off Portfolio
Week 34
Portfolios due- send them off!
Week 35
Celebration of second semester/year-long accomplishments: play Get Out of Jail, Cheeto Head, Pictionary (strong/weak hand), Foot Handwriting/Drawing, I Remember When/The Story of Art Class, Picture Lines
Week 36
art show display: slideshow or printed photos of works sent in AP Portfolio along with Artist Statement