Visual Arts - 7th Grade
The emphasis for 7th grade visual arts is to continue exploration, analysis, and investigation of the creative process. Students develop technical skills that empower them to communicate ideas visually, with the focus on realistic representations of their environment. Students acquire knowledge that permits them to identify art styles and the periods to which they belong along with other cultures from around the world and continuing to learn how to develop team building and cognitive thinking skills.
In addition, students become aware of a variety of careers that they may consider. They develop inquiry skills and vocabulary as they explore the meaning of works of art through analysis of subject matter, themes, and symbols. Students develop an increased awareness of the nature of art and of their relationship to it as they explore the meaning and value of works of art and the design process while developing personal interests and apply them to real world applications.
OVERVIEW OF ASSIGNMENTS and LESSONS
Please keep all of your assignments in your portfolio. ALL artwork should NEATLY have your name, homeroom & class section and should be created using your best effort. KEEP all rough drafts and label as needed. To receive full credit for assignment you must show evidence of the design process.
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In addition, students become aware of a variety of careers that they may consider. They develop inquiry skills and vocabulary as they explore the meaning of works of art through analysis of subject matter, themes, and symbols. Students develop an increased awareness of the nature of art and of their relationship to it as they explore the meaning and value of works of art and the design process while developing personal interests and apply them to real world applications.
OVERVIEW OF ASSIGNMENTS and LESSONS
Please keep all of your assignments in your portfolio. ALL artwork should NEATLY have your name, homeroom & class section and should be created using your best effort. KEEP all rough drafts and label as needed. To receive full credit for assignment you must show evidence of the design process.
TOPICS:
- What is Art? Overview/power point introduction
- Rules and Expectations (Lecture & Discussion)
- The Power of the Doodle - Take 2: Why is is it important to doodle and what relevance does it have on society? "From doodles to murals to blueprints, it is how humans communicated before the invention of language, and it continues to succeed where language often fails. Indeed, it is “the best tool we have for understanding and communicating,” says Ms Grayson Ford
- Color Theory. How we perceive color.
- Entry Placement Exam.
- Sustainability and You. How can you make a difference in the word? Present and future. Lecture & Discussion)
- Discussion of personal and animal symbols/spirits. Recap of origins of mandalas and cymatics/universal energy. The power of positive energy and power that exists in your name. How complex an idea can be but yet so simple.
- Who is Claus Oldenburg and what was his role in pop art?
- The Nature of Advertising, Illustration and the Consumer
- Nature field studies and the examination of natural history illustration. An examination of the natural world and the art of illustration and observation.
- How is a six pointed snowflake related to geometry and engineering?
- Exploratory Portraits and the use of simple technology. How to map out form on a flat surface. Discovery of Chuck Close and how he beat adversity as an artist.
- Exploratory Portraits, the use of simple technology and discovery of Piet Mondrain and Andy Warhol. How can one use simple materials to create art?
ASSIGNMENTS:
- Symbolic Personal Portfolio/Binder (with name, homeroom, Class ex: 7P-S1)
- Doodling Unit: Intuitive art, zentangle, op art, combined multi-layered doodle using all three techniques (one of each technique)
- Personal mandala
- Spirit Doll Soft Sculpture
- Paper-mache taxidermy head with plaque
- Marker print portrait using the design process. (Series of three: 1. realistic, 2. black and white. 3. CrAzY colors)
- Pendulum Paintings
- Extra credit!! Bring in garbage that you think may be useful to creating art in the classroom. Looking for plastic containers, jugs, bottles, aluminum cans, newspaper.
- Extra Credit Drawings - Anything you been been practicing throughout the semester - NO random AKA "my name is", stick figures and smiley faces unless we have discussed or you can make a series of events come together using them. Drawings should be based on assignments. lectures, website materials, etc.
- Extra Credit - CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK
- Reflections and Rubrics
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