Fine Arts I
Fine Arts I include art history, criticism, aesthetics, and production. Students are engaged in sequential learning, experiences that lead to the creation of portfolio quality work. Students create drawings utilizing processes such as contour structure drawing, rendering and perspective. They utilize the resources of art museums, galleries, and studios with online resources, and identify art-related careers. The course will introduce watercolor and perspective into the world of color theory design.
- Recommended Grade Level: Grade 9
- Recommended Prerequisites: None
- Credits: 0.5 credit
- Fulfills the Fine Arts requirement for the College Preparatory Diploma
Fine Arts II
This course introduces the fundamental language of design used to create meaning and function in visual communication on the 2-D plane. Students will investigate concepts and principles of organization in relation to the visual elements, with an emphasis on color theory. Methods of generating and editing the visual plane will be explored through a range of creative processes and media. Visual analysis of historical, contemporary, and personal work will foster vocabulary development, technical skills, and critical awareness. This course then builds on the concepts and principles of design presented in 2-D Foundations by applying them to time based and 3-D forms in physical space. Students will focus on the concepts of space, mass, volume, movement, and time as they appertain to the organizational principles of direction, balance, axis, orientation, and relationship. Hands-on projects emphasize the processes of thinking and planning, selection of tools and materials, thoughtful articulation of the built form, and critical analysis.
- Recommended Grade Level: Grade 10
- Recommended Prerequisites: Fine Arts I
- Credits: 1 credit, a course taken in a year
- Fulfills a Fine Arts requirement for the College Preparatory Diploma
Visual Arts I
Visual Arts I encompasses a revisit to art elements and art principles, composition, cartography, foundation, art criticism and art production getting acquainted with local and international artists through research. Students are engaged in sequential learning experiences that will lead to the creation of portfolio quality work. Students create artworks with applied principles such as drawing, rendering, perspective, and color rendering. Students utilize the resources of art museums and galleries through online resources and actual field trips.
- Recommended Grade Level: Grade 9
- Recommended Prerequisite: Grade 8 requirements
- Credit: 0.5 credit
- Fulfill the Visual Art requirement for the College preparatory Diploma
Visual Art II
This course covers art history, art criticism, issues on art applied principles. Students are to extend their skills and the applied principles to specialization. Students investigate and research concepts and principles of organization in relation to visual elements. Students will go through the process and methods to foster vocabulary development, technical skills, ang critical awareness. Students will focus on the foundation of art, and techniques in the process. Hands-on projects emphasize the process of thinking and planning, selection of tools, and materials, thoughtful articulation of the built form and critical analysis.
- Recommended Grade Level: Grade 10
- Recommended Prerequisite: Grade 9 requirements
- Credit: 1 credit
- Fulfill the Visual Art requirement for the College preparatory Diploma
