NEW PROVIDENCEHIGH SCHOOL
NEW PROVIDENCE, NEW JERSEY

Drawing I & II

This course is designed to provide the opportunity for students to attain proficiency in each of five specific goal areas. These are:

  1. To perceive and respond to aspects of art.
  2. To value art as an important realm of human experience.
  3. To produce student works of art
  4. To know about art
  5. To make and justify judgments about the aesthetic merits and quality of art, both student and professional.

Proficiency Requirements

Attendance: A student enrolled in this course is expected to be present

At least 90% of the days the class is in session.

Achievement: A student must maintain a D- or better average for the four

marking periods and final examination as reflected by tests

and class work based upon the objectives of the course.

Goal areas I, III and IV above entail the greatest amount of

class time and, therefore, represent 85% of the student’s total

grade. Completion of home assignments is required.

Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

GOAL I: Perceive and respond to aspects of art

  • Describe how the treatment of a theme or idea of two or more drawings or graphics is similar or different.
  • Describe the sensory aspects of a drawing or graphic.
  • Point out how dimension in a non-representational object is achieved.
  • Describe the four sensory aspects of a drawing (Drawing II)
  • Demonstrate an awareness of how the appearance of volume and forms on a two-dimensional surface is created. (Drawing II)

GOAL II Value Art as an Important Realm of Human Experience

  • Participate in activities related to art, i.e. class exhibits.
  • Demonstrate an understanding about artists, i.e. their role in society.
  • Demonstrate open-mindedness toward artistic experimentation.

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  • Point out how dimension in a non-representational object is achieved.

GOAL III: Produce Works of Art

  • Produce a scratchboard drawing using various techniques to show value, shading and form.
  • Produce an intaglio print etching techniques through use of hard ground.
  • Produce a statement drawing reflecting a personal idea in an individual style of drawing.
  • Producea drawing showing knowledge or perspective through a non-representational object.
  • Produce an anatomically correct yet interpretive, portrait drawing.
  • Produce a proportioned, personally interpreted, full-length drawing of a human figure.

GOAL IV Know about Art

  • Know any minorities who have made significant contributions to drawing. Explain the significance.
  • Cite two conditions explaining how drawing has been linked to the past.
  • Recognize different methods of drawing; understanding their process by analyzing works on the basis of their processes.
  • Identify different types of lines contained in drawings explaining the qualities they convey.
  • Identify individual differences affecting the style of two artists working in drawing or graphics.
  • Know and understand the elements of art and principles of design.
  • Know about one and two point perspective.

GOAL V: Make and Justify Judgments about the Aesthetic Merits

And Quality of Works of Art

  • Judge a work to be good or bad.
  • Describe qualities needed to produce a “good” drawing.
  • Explain the concept of “originality” as it applies to drawing.

Revised September 2011