Concepts in Art

by Marie MaxGrade 9

4.5 hours per week

Concept

Two dimensional and three dimensional concepts and manipulation of multiple media

Application of elements and principles

ThemeDrawing Media

•Essential Question: How is different media applied to produce elements of art?

•Elements of art

•Skills: Material understanding and application, line, value

•Process: use multiple drawing media to express elements and principles in art•Habits of mind: follow directions

• Resources:• Pencil• Charcoal• Pastel• Painting • 3 D color wheel

•Time: 2 weeks•Assessment: application, student self assess•Pa Standards AH9.1.8.C. 9.1.8.H. 9.2.8.C. 9.2.8.L. Math2.3a,b,cR/WR1.4, 1.5, 1.6•Cost: $•Reference: Lascaux Caves

Theme: Space

Can simple shapes create space and symbolism?

• Students will design images with positive and negative space.

• 1.Create a pattern or image in black and white positive and negative. Non-representational.

• 2. Students will draw, cut, glue, and color shapes with/without texture or value. Representational.

• 3. Create a symbolic image with color. Representational and non-representational (figurative/non-figurative)

• 4. three dimensional (windowed)

Skill: Drawing, Gluing, cutting, balance, design, craftsmanship

• Materials: paper, exacto, glue, pencil, eraser

Habits of Mind: Clarifying direction, express creativity• • Peer and student self-assess

• Standards: 9.1, 9.2, 9.4a, 1.4b, 2.3a,b,c

• Time: 4 weeks

• Reference: Asian shadow puppets, Notan, international flags• Cost: $

Theme: ShapeEssential Question: How can an image contain the elements of art if it

is distorted? • Contour drawing• Collage: Shape, color, symbolism. Absract an existing image.

Investigation of meaning.• Portrait and lanscape, 3d

Skills: Create line drawings and Replace line or realistic qualities w/abstraction

• Create line drawings using contour line elements• Use of balance, pattern, emphasis

• cutting, pasting for multiples and abstraction• Manipulation of shape

• Distortion• Cubism, Picasso, Braque

• Culture and Identity• History of line and pattern

• Harlem RenaissanceMaterials: pencils, paper, magazines, newpaper, colored paper,

cardboard, paint, glue

Habits of Mind: Exercising creativity and originality• Standards: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4a, 9.4c,1.4b

• Cost: $

ThemeValue

How can value, line, and texture create the illusion of form?

• Portrait, Landscape, Still Life• Learn about different pencil, charcoal, and pastel

media and papers, Explore the materials• Study elements of line, value, and texture• Create a diorama of landscape Skills: Apply different techniques Interior and exterior

effects of light on an object• Learn how to interpret the effects of light in nature• Understand foreground, mid-ground, background, and

atmospheric perspective, unity, rythmnHabits of Mind: Follow directions, explore creativity and

originality, deliberativeness• Assessment: craftsmanship, application of ideas,

student, peer, and teacher• Pa Standards AH9.1.8.C. 9.1.8.H. 9.2.8.C. 9.2.8.L. • 3.1, 3.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6• Time: 9 Weeks• Materials- pencil-charcoal- pastel, paper, erasers• Reference: Goya (Modernist), Monet (Impressionist),

Chris Van Allsburg (Story book illustrator)• Cost: $S

ThemeTexture

• How do you connect different concepts of space and time with elements of art?

• Connecting ideas through drawing• Express time and place in communication and narration

through visual art forms

• Postcards• Posters• Inter-active Media, e-cards, imovies, youtube

• Explore abstract ideas of space and form and connect them in a 2 dimensional format

• Skill: draw with application of textures• Communication and symbols through media• Discuss history of postcards and posters• Apply modern forms of visual narration via digital media• Materials: pencils, erasers, markers, paint, photoshop,

power point imovie• Reference: Bauhaus, Deco, movie posters, digital media art• Time: 9 weeks• Pa Standards AH9.1.8.C. 9.1.8.H. 9.2.8.C. 9.2.8.L. WR1.4,

1.5, 1.6

• Cost;: $$

Theme: FormCan ideas and meaning be abstracted into 3 dimensional

constructions?• Create a narrative assemblage sculptures.

– Relief– Three Dimension– Environmental

• Design a layout plan of the sculpture and support.

Skills: Craftsmanship, Design, balance, color, unity

• Materials: found objects, plaster, glue, wire, nature

Habits of Mind: Explore Creativity and Originality • References: Duchamp, Isaiah Zagar, Louise Nevelson, Pheobe

Washburn, Andy Glodsworthy• Pa Standards AH9.1.8.C. 9.1.8.H. 9.2.8.C. 9.2.8.L. • 4 weeks• Cost: $