BeechwoodHighSchool

Specialized Art Course Syllabus

2016-2017

Instructor: Mrs. Monica Namyar

Room Number: 300

Email:

Course Description and Standards:

This course is for students who have successfully completed the General Art course. These students have an expressed interest in continuing work in visual art. Units are developed around the main processes of art: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and photography. Art criticism and aesthetics are incorporated with studio instruction. In this course, students study the structural components of art (elements and principles), the historical and cultural context, the purposes for creating art, and artistic processes. Through study of the arts, students have the opportunity to gain insight, appreciation, and understanding of the world, past and present, and their own cultural heritage.

Course Text and Resources:

Discovering Art History by Gerald F. Brommer, Davis Publications

Scholastic Art magazines

First Quarter

Students will focus on advanced drawing techniques. In the Discovering Art History textbook, students will read Part One: The World and Work of the Artist and Part Two: Trends and Influences in the World of Art.

(Also, during the first quarter, we usually have guest visitors from art schools to talk about art careers and education in the arts.)

  • Week 1: Art portfolio design using art elements and principles. Pretest Art history and techniques. Distribute textbooks. DAH: Read pages 4-14 (Ch. 1 Learning about Art)
  • Week 2: Introduction to pointillism and artist Chuck Close. Use value techniques of stippling, hatching and cross-hatching to create an abstract self-portrait using a grid and sharpies. DAH: Read pages 18-29 (Subject matter: What is it saying?)and 30-39(Media)
  • Week 3: Finish abstract grid portrait DAH: Read pages 40-54 (Design) and 60-65(Commonalities)
  • Week 4: Optional: Why I Love America entry (extra credit). Introduction to pastels. Introduction to Impressionism with Claude Monet, Renoir and Degas. Begin pastel pencil landscape on colored matboard. DAH: Read pages:66-73 (Emotion vs. Intellect) and 76-85 (A multitude of perspectives) DAH powerpoint
  • Week 5: Finish landscape DAH: Read pages 86-99(China)DAH test #1
  • Week 6: Key Still life Colored pencil Study (P. 28 From Ordinary to Extraordinary)DAH: Read pages: 100-111 (Japan and SE Asia)
  • Week 7: Finish Key Still life DAH read pages 112-123 (Oceania -Islam)
  • Week 8: Positive and Negative Space lesson(Black Still Life p. 43 From Ordinary to Extraordinary) DAH read pages: 124-135 (Africa-Pre-Columbian art) DAH powerpoint.
  • Week 9: Finish Positive and Negative Space lesson and begin --Drawing project: artist's choice. DAH read pages: 136-143 (N. American) DAH test #2
  • Pass out Pottery Culture Project guidelines for third quarter.

Second Quarter

Students will focus on advanced painting techniques. In the Discovering Art History textbook, students will read chapters 5-8 in Part Three: Art in the Western World.

  • Week 1: Artist's Drawing Choice project is due. Introduction to artist: Vincent Van Gogh. Take a photograph of an interior which holds meaning for you: your bedroom, the kitchen, a cafe, bookstore, classroom...Create an oil painting on canvas of the interior. DAH read pages: 148-159 (Earliest beginnings-Ancient Near East) and 160-169 (Egypt)
  • Weeks 2-3: Finish interior oil painting. DAH read pages: 172-189 (Greek Art)
  • Week 4: Acrylic "ism" painting: Choose a movement from the Discovering Art History text. Create an original painting inspired by the "ism" . Create a powerpoint about the art movement. DAH read pages: 190-201(Roman Art)
  • Weeks 5-6: Work on acrylic "ism" painting DAH read pages 204-217 (Byzantine art)
  • Week 7: Watercolor painting: subject matter is artist's choice (your home, portrait, bicycle, skeleton...) DAH read pages 218-227 (Islamic-Early Medieval art)DAH powerpoint.
  • Week 8: Finish watercolor painting DAH read pages 230-239 (Romanesque art) DAH test #3
  • Week 9: Art history review week and exam DAH read pages 240-257( Gothic)

Third Quarter

Students will focus on advanced sculpture techniques. In the Discovering Art History textbook, students will read chapters 9-11

Students will have a fieldtrip to Queen City Clay to throw on the potter's wheel.

  • Week 1: Ocarinas. DAH read pages: 260-275 (Early Ren.)
  • Week 2: Begin culture pottery project. DAH read pages: 276-287 (High Renaissance) DAH powerpoint
  • Week 3: Finish pottery culture project, handbuilding and work on powerpoint. Glaze ocarinas. DAH read pages: 288-299 (Mannerism)DAH test #4 (Renaissance)
  • Week 4: Treasure box project and glaze pottery culture project. DAH read pages: 302-313 (The Low Countries)
  • Week 5: Finish handbuilding Treasure boxes and share culture pottery presentations. DAH read pages: 314-327 (Germany, England, France and Spain)
  • Week 6: Contemporary sculpture project. Create a sculpture using plaster gauze, clay or other material inspired by a contemporary sculptor (Henry Moore, Giacommeti, Butterfield, Chihuly, Oldenburg, Levine, Arneson, Calder, Weisner, Picasso...) Create a powerpoint about the artist's life and work when presenting your sculpture. DAH read pages: 330-345 (The Baroque in Italy, Germany and France )Powerpoint DAH
  • Week 7: Finish contemporary sculpture project and powerpoint. DAH read pages: 346-363 (The Baroque in Flanders, Holland and Spain)DAH test #5 (Baroque)
  • Week 8: Glaze Queen City Clay pottery and treasure box. DAH read pages: 364-377 (The Early Eighteenth Century)
  • Week 9: Share contemporary sculpture projects and powerpoints. DAH read pages: 380-399 ( Neoclassicism and Romanticism)

Fourth Quarter

Students will choose an art specialty to focus on this quarter:

  • Weeks 1-2: Work on project 1(p. 121 From Ordinary to Extraordinary). DAH read pages: 400-413(Realism and Photography) DAH powerpoint (Romanticism/Realism) and 416-429 (Impressionism), DAH read pages: 430-445 (Post-impressionism and Turn-of -the Century Expressions) DAH Test #6 (Romanticism/ Realism)
  • Weeks 3-4: Work on project 2. DAH read pages: 448-475 (Expressionism, Abstract art and sculpture)DAH powerpoint (Impressionism) and DAH read pages: 476-489 (Fantasy art, Surrealism and Photography)DAH test #7 (Impressionism)
  • Weeks 5-6: Work on project 3. DAH read pages: 492-519 (American Art)DAH powerpoint (Abstraction) and DAH read pages 522-545 (Modernism and Post-modernism in Architecture)DAH test #8 (Abstraction)
  • Weeks 7-8: Work on project 4 DAH read pages: 548-569 (Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Op art and Color Field Painting) and DAH read pages: 570-587 (New Realism, Sculpture and New Directions)DAH powerpoint (Modernism to present)
  • Week 9: Post-test, art history review and final exam

Methods of Assessments:

  • Projects (worth 100 points each)
  • Discovering Art History tests (worth 100 points each)
  • Midterm and Final exams (20%)

Grading Scale:

Percent / Letter Grade
92% – 100% / A
84% – 91% / B
76% – 83% / C
70% – 75% / D
0% – 69% / F

Classroom Expectations:

  1. BE SAFE.

-There should be no talking during announcements. Use art materials properly.

  1. BE RESPECTFUL.

-Respect yourself, classmates, and art teacher.

-Raise your hand and wait for permission to speak

  1. BE RESPONSIBLE.

-All assignments MUST be turned in on-time, or you will lose points.

-The 10/10 rules applies: no restroom breaks during first or last 10 minutes of class

-All electronic devices must be turned off and out of sight. Teacher reserves the right to collect electronic devices (including cell phones, ipods...) if used without permission.

*Forallotherschool-related rules, pleaserefertotheStudentHandbook.

Consequences for not Meeting Classroom Expectations

  • 1st Consequence – Verbal warning and / or parent contact (phone call or e-mail)
  • 2nd Consequence – Detention and /or referral to the administration

Depending on the severity of the classroom disruption or behavior, the teacher may bypass consequences listed above.

Academic Dishonesty and Attendance Policy:

Please refer to the Student Handbook for specific details.

-Absences: Make-up work will be given to all students, but only the students with excused absences will receive an academic grade without penalty. The student has one day per day absent to turn in the work. Make-up work will remain a “0” until absence is excused. It is the student’s responsibility to see me or contact a classmate about what was missed. If a test or quiz needs to be made up, the student is responsible for setting up a time after school to take the missed assessment.

Required Materials:

• pencil or pen

• allother art supplieswillbeprovided

Note to Parents:

I willbesending a weeklynewsletterwiththe art agenda by email. Youwillreceivean email SundaynightorMondayeachweek. Feel free tocontact me ifyouhaveanyquestionsorconcerns.

Thank you,

Mrs. Namyar

Parents and Students,

Please sign and return to Mrs. Namyar by Friday, August 26, 2016. It is a required document for student files.

Thank you,

Mrs. Namyar

We the parent/guardian(s) and the student, have fully read, understood, and agree to abide by these expectations.

Period ____

Print Student nameStudent’s signatureDate

Print Parent/Guardian Parent/Guardian’s signature Date

Name