The Ideal Elementary Curriculum - Art Elective
SUBJECT: ART ELECTIVE CLASS & ART CLUB
Grades six, seven and eight
- STUDENTS DEVELOP OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS, AS THEY …
1. Learn to express each “self” through creating and viewing works of art
- Apply principles of color using color wheel as a tool
Learn to draw a portrait using contour, line and value drawing
2. Apply principles in the art work of professional artists
- Perspective
- Drawing
- Painting
3. Learn to understand how artists express themselves through their art work
- Through virtual reality trips into world-wide museum sites
- Through guest demonstrations
- Presentation of famous art works on line
- Fellow student’s works presented
4. Apply media, techniques, principles and theory in art.
- Experiment with different media
- Creativity, motor skills visual learning are stressed
- Study unique structure and function of art
- Guests introduce mechanical drawing, computer graphics
- Printmaker and videographer present unfinished work
6. Evaluate contemporary avatar-style graphics art as art
7. Conduct field work that culminates in Composition and Design contest
- Apply principles and theory of composition and design in paintings, drawings and prints
