Course Description:
From the Fine Arts TEKS: the study of Art includes four basic strands–foundations: observation and perception; creative expression; historical and cultural relevance; and critical evaluation and response–provide broad, unifying structures… Students rely on personal observations and perceptions, which are developed through increasing visual literacy and sensitivity to surroundings, communities, memories, imaginings, and life experiences as sources for thinking about, planning, and creating original artworks. Students communicate their thoughts and ideas with innovation and creativity. Through art, students challenge their imaginations, foster critical thinking, collaborate with others, and build reflective skills. While exercising meaningful problem-solving skills, students develop the lifelong ability to make informed judgments.
Course Outline:
Please remember – it is not about what you know or where you came from, it is about what you do now to get to where you are going. Each student will have the opportunity to make choices regarding personal creating of artworks in collaboration with Mrs. Gist.
FIRST SEMESTER: Create art: Promote risk taking through ways to do, see & make original Artworks. Explore innovative processes with a high level of technical expertise as well as a greater expectation of outcome from the instructor.
Expectation of connections to the Elements of Art & Principles of Design with History & Culture.
Student selection of concepts & ideas from original sources, direct observation, experiences and imagination.
Continue problem solving through judgment, interpretation, justification and evaluation processes regarding content, meaning, message, and intent of artworks created by self and others.
SECOND SEMESTER:
Expand visual literacy, creative challenging, foster reflective thinking, problem solving, and the ability to critically respond through cultural/historical relevance.
Continue choices: adapt, modify, magnify, minify, substitute, rearrange, combine.
Self-reflection: When each work is finished, will the viewer know something about you when viewing the artwork?