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ARTD 25A |
- Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
- Students will develop an understanding of basic painting terminology that coordinates with the ARTSD 25A curriculum.
- Recognize and discuss historical painting styles.
- Define well-organized visual composition and other formal principles in written and oral form.
- Develop paintings using dynamic compositional elements with appropriate light logic and accurate shapes.
- Develop paintings focusing on color theory in a painterly or Impressionistic style.
- Develop paintings focusing on realism with precise shapes and edges through the process of blending.
- Create well-organized visual compositions in a variety of styles and techniques.?
- 91% meets or exceeds expectations from an assessment of 136 paintings (68 students) during fall 2021 and winter 2022.
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Design: Color and Composition |
ARTD 21 |
- Students will be able to use analogous color harmony in an original design.
- Students will be able to use a monochromatic color harmony in an original design.
- Students will apply visual arts concepts in oral and written communication.
- Students will be able to identify 4 color harmonies.
- Use art terminology in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis, critiques and studio problems.
- Apply the formal elements, principles of design, and forms of compositional structure in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis, critiques and studio problems.
- Demonstrate ability to match colors.
- Synthesize basic color harmonies in pigment and demonstrate their relationship to RGB and CMYK pallets.
- Demonstrate the use of color in space informed by light logic.
- Use and recognize historic and modern forms of perspective.
- Synthesis visual content, communicative, psychological, and emotional aspects of color harmonies in design projects.
- Make use of critical thinking (reading, writing, listening, speaking, observing and assessing) skills elemental to the problem solving of design and the visual arts.
- Use creative and analytic techniques and strategies in planning and executing original artworks.
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Design: Three Dimensional |
ARTS 22 |
- Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
- Students will accurately identify safety rules for required stationary power tools.
- Students will safely and successfully use a variety of required stationary power tools: Band saw, sanders, lathe.
- Design and produce projects using a variety of materials.
- Use a variety of hand tools and equipment to manipulate media.
- Apply molding principles by creating multi-piece molds and cold cast reproductions of three-dimensional objects.
- Recognize, define, and apply three-dimensional design terminology in evaluative oral and written discussions, analysis and critiques.
- Define problems, organize information, analyze results, generate creative ideas, and synthesize complex visual, structural and practical considerations to create original solutions to three-dimensional design problems.
- Identify, analyze, and evaluate interrelationships between formal elements, principles of design, materials, technique, function, and cost.
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Design: Two Dimensional |
ARTD 20 |
- Recognize, define and appropriately apply 2-D terminology to evaluate works of art in oral or written discussions, analysis or critiques.
- Two-dimensional design students will be able to list all of the elements and principles of design by the 8th week of the semester.
- Two-Dimensional Design students will be able to list all of the elements and principles of design by the eighth week of the semester.
- Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
- Students will be able to identify the three basic types of balance/symmetries.
- Students will accurately identify three different spatial devices
- Identify, evaluate, discuss, and use the formal elements and principles of design and forms of compositional structure.
- Perceive and interpret the 3-D world through contour line drawings.
- Use the formal elements, principles of design, and principles of gestalt to create well-designed studio projects in achromatic value and color.
- Use value to describe form and express light logic.
- Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of color to value by mixing, analyzing, and appraising monochromatic tints and shades relative to the achromatic value scale.
- Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of color complements by mixing, analyzing and appraising complementary tones (chromatic grays).
- Perceive and demonstrate the relationship of hues to the conceptual pigment color wheel by mixing, analyzing, appraising, and identifying color correct swatches for
- Use historic and current forms of abstraction in the visual arts.
- Recognize, analyze and interpret the expressive and creative qualities of art media in a work of art as it affects elementary compositional decisions.
- Make use of critical thinking (reading, writing, listening, speaking, observing and assessing) skills elemental to the problem solving of design and the visual arts.
- Differentiate preferential, factual, and judicious thinking elemental to solving problems in design and visual arts.
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Drawing: Beginning |
ARTD 15A |
- Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
- Students will develop an understanding of basic drawing terminology that coordinates with the ARTSD 15A curriculum.
- Students will be able to create illusions of three-dimensional forms using the rules of light logic.
- Students will be able to identify zones of light as explained by light logic using appropriate vocabulary.
- Students will demonstrate their understanding of fundamental illusions of three dimensional forms on a two dimensional plane by locating the eye level and vanishing points in examples of perspective boxes.
- Create original drawings, which demonstrate the capacity to perceive, comprehend, and interpret the three-dimensional visual world using dry media in a variety of techniques, which include stipple, line, and hatching.
- Utilize original and creative thinking in projects and writings.
- Utilize quick study drawing skills through visual notes and personal studies as a basis for planning larger extended works of art.
- Utilize quick study techniques to develop extended drawings.
- Utilize the principles of composition in objective and subjective analysis of historical and contemporary works of visual art.
- Synthesize the formal art elements and principles with the observed world in varying compositional formats.
- Discuss, analyze, and evaluate personal works of art and that of contemporary and historical artists by using appropriate art-specific terminology for content, technique, and style in both written and oral critiques.
- Students will successfully demonstrate the application of measuring/sighting from observation to solve creating the illusion of a three dimensional still life on two dimensional surface
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Drawing: Life |
ARTD 17A |
- Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate two-dimensionally the action of the figure through gesture drawing.
- Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate two-dimensionally
the shape of the figure.
- Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate two-dimensionally the proportions of the figure through gesture drawing.
- Students will be able to use line to create the illusion of three-dimensional form through use of cross contour and construction.
- Students will be able to quickly assess and communicate accurate proportion of the figure.
- Create drawings of the human body using drawing principles and techniques.
- Develop and use original and creative thinking in drawing the human body.
- Work from a general visual shorthand to more specific studies that result in finished art.
- Create the illusion of three-dimensional form using various media and techniques based on formal art principles.
- Evaluate and discuss historical and contemporary art/artists through written and oral critiques using appropriate art-specific terminology.
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History of Western Art: Prehistoric Through Gothic |
AHIS 4 |
- Students will be able to identify through analysis the role of visual art and culture (religious, political, economic, social, educational, etc.) in art and and cultures.
- Students will be able to identify formal elements and differentiate styles among cultures over time.
- Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
- Describe the role of magic and ritual in prehistoric art.
- Identify works of art, their artistic style and their cultural contexts.
- Recognize iconographic themes and discuss them in their cultural contexts.
- Recognize benefits and drawbacks of various approaches used in the study and interpretation of Western art.
- Use proper artistic vocabulary to describe and analyze works of art.
- Analyze religious iconography in the arts of the Middle Ages and relate it to written sources from the period.
- Analyze the art and architecture of the Ancient, Classical or Medieval periods in terms of knowledge acquired through class lecture and discussion, readings and comparison with other works of art.
- Synthesize ideas and knowledge about Ancient, Classical, or Medieval art and architecture into a written format, striving for clarity of expression, organization and relevance of arguments.
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History of Western Art: Prehistoric Through Gothic - Honors |
AHIS 4H |
- Students will be able to identify formal elements ande differentiate styles among cultures over time.
- Students will be able to identify through analysis the role of visual art and culture (religious, political, economic, social, educational, etc.) in art and and cultures.
- Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression.
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History of Western Art: Renaissance Through Modern |
AHIS 5 |
- Students will be able to identify through analysis the role of visual art and culture (religious, political, economic, social, educational, etc.) in art and and cultures.
- Students will be able to identify formal elements and differentiate styles among cultures over time.
- Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression
- Identify the connection between the cultural movements of the Renaissance and the emergence of a naturalistic, idealized and humanized artistic style.
- Identify works of art, their artistic style and their cultural context in the periods addressed.
- Recognize benefits and drawbacks of various approaches used in the study and interpretation of Western art.
- Recognize iconographic themes and discuss them in their cultural contexts.
- Utilize proper artistic vocabulary to describe and analyze works of art.
- Analyze and synthesize the basic goals of Modern art and explain how it differs in content and style from artistic styles that preceded it.
- Analyze art in terms of knowledge acquired through class lecture and discussion, readings and comparison with other works of art.
- Summarize and evaluate the strength of various hypotheses presented in scholarly writings on Western art.
- Synthesize ideas and knowledge into a written format, striving for clarity of expression, organization and relevance of arguments.
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History of Western Art: Renaissance Through Modern - Honors |
AHIS 5H |
- Students will be able to identify through analysis the role of visual art and culture (religious, political, economic, social, educational, etc.) in art and and cultures.
- Students will be able to identify formal elements and differentiate styles among cultures over time.
- Students completing an assignment in Area C (Arts) courses will be able to analyze modes of artistic expression
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