Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School

Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School

Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School

Course: Art 30 IB (5 credits)

Instructor: S. McNiff-Wolfe

Office hours: 8:30 – 4:00

Phone: 347-1171 (ext. 2680)

E-mail:

Aims for students of the Visual Arts International Baccalaureate Program

  1. Provide students with opportunities to make meaningful personal, socio-cultural and aesthetic experiences through the production and understanding of Art.
  2. Exemplify and encourage an inquiring and integrated approach towards visual art in their various historical and contemporary forms.
  3. Promote visual and contextual knowledge of art from various cultures.
  4. Encourage the pursuit of quality through experimentation and purposeful creative work in various expressive media.
  5. Enable students to learn about themselves and others through individual and, where appropriate, collaborative engagement with the visual arts.

General Objectives of the Visual Arts IB Program

Candidates who have completed the IB Art Program will be expected to demonstrate:

  • growth and commitment through the study of art.
  • an interrelationship between research and artistic production.

through the development of Studio Work and Research Workbooks.

Healing Through the Arts: Creativity, action, service (CAS)

The CAS requirement is a fundamental part of the programme and takes seriously the importance of life outside the world of scholarship, providing a refreshing counterbalance to academic studies.

Healing Through the Arts is a program run in conjunction with LTCHS Art Program and Unit 35 (Rehabilitation) at RDRHC. Students are expected to participate in this initiative by volunteering their time (students choose the dates they prefer) to this program. Healing Through the Arts runs Tuesdays during October to June from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. An orientation at RDRHC will take place in late September.

Assessment

Studio Work60%

Investigation Workbooks40%

* Due to the intensive nature of the IB Art Programme, final marks will be adjusted according to the Art 30 criteria so as to more accurately reflect the work achieved at an Art 30 level. The Art 30 criteria includes including studio projects, research, notes, sketchbook (IWB), artist statements and is as follows:

Final Mark

Course Mark 70%

Articulation30%

Studio Work

Candidates who have completed any of the three courses will be expected to:

  • Demonstrate an inquiring and integrative approach to a variety of visual phenomena through purposeful exploration.
  • Synthesize art concepts and skills in works that are personally, socio-culturally and aesthetically meaningful.
  • Solve formal and technical skills encountered in studio practice.
  • Exhibit technical skills and an appropriate use of media.
  • Produce works of art with imagination and creativity through individual and, where appropriate, collaborative work.

Investigation Workbooks

Candidates who have completed any of the three courses will be expected to:

  • Demonstrate clearly – in visual and written terms – how personal research has led to an understanding of the topics or concepts being investigated.
  • Critically analyse the meaning and aesthetic qualities of art forms using an informed vocabulary.
  • Demonstrate awareness of the cultural, historical and social dimensions of themes in more than one cultural context.
  • Examine the visual and functional qualities of art from their own and other cultures for meaning and significance.

Rubrics for both Studio and Investigation Workbook assessment are attached at the end of this course outline. These rubrics are developed according International Baccalaureate practices.

Those students who complete all of the requirements for Art 20 IB will be registered in Art 25 IB and Art 30 IB in the same semester (each course will take place on alternate days). Set-up of the course in this way allows students to complete projects and investigations for their external exams and exhibits in April of semester 2.

IB Art Exam dates run between April 18th to April 20th, 2012 – depending upon availability of the examiner.

Course Work

Drawing and 2-D Design

  1. Anatomy/Figure Drawing
  2. Experimental – contour, blind contour, x-contour, gesture
  3. Rendered – gesture to full-process
  4. Still-Life Composition
  • Experimental – unusual colours, high contrast lighting and media
  • Rendered – linear and tonal techniques
  1. Portraits

Experimental – gesture, expressionistic

Rendered – mixed media, metaphysical self-portrait

Methods: exercises, technique, theory, media, critical analysis, anatomy, self-

directed research and experimentation.

Concepts: human anatomy, elements and principles of design, gesture, contour,

colour theory, contrast, proportion, composition, unity, space,

metaphysical, Fantasy, Dada, Surrealism, S.C.A.M.P.E.R., chiaroscuro.

Research Connections

Historical: Rembrandt van Rijn, Leonardo daVinci, Pablo Picasso, Edgar

Degas, Giorgio deChirico, Carlo Carra, Edvard Munch.

Contemporary: Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Salvador Dali, Fantasy, Dada,

Surrealism.

Printmaking and 2-D Design

  1. Experimental – monoprinting, paper, marbling.
  2. Relief – lino block, wood block, collograph
  3. Intaglio – engraving, etching (this will be an extension of previous methods such as multiple use/layering of colour, mixed media, printing on a variety of materials). Focus will be on modern and contemporary art movements and styles.

Methods: history, theory, media, technique, equipment, safety, self-directed

research and experimentation, critical analysis.

Concepts: abstraction, aesthetics, symbolism, Cubism, Dada, Fantasy,

Surrealism, Regionalism, Pop Art, Op Art, photo realism, composition,

Modern art, Colour Field painting, abstract expressionism, S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

Research Connections

Contemporary: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Marcel Duchampe, Joan

Miro, Salvador Dali, Paul Klee, Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Jacob

Lawrence, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Roy Litchenstein, Robert

Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Willem

deKooning, Gary Olson, Walter Jule, Liz Gagnon, Lyndal Osborne.

Painting and Mixed Media

  1. Watercolour
  2. Acrylic
  3. Mixed Media
  4. An extension of previous techniques, media, materials will continue to be developed. Emphasis to develop personal style and excellent handling of media through self-directed experimentation and research. Focus will be on Canadian painters.
  5. Pastiche – internet research into a specific artist whose style and

technique will be researched, studied, analyzed and reproduced in

an image of the students’ choice.

Methods: history, theory, media, technique, personal research, self-directed

research and experiment.

Concepts: related to individuals and styles studied, S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

Vocabulary: painterly, chiaroscuro, pastiche

Research Connections

Historical: individual artists, movements, art galleries including the

following; British Museum, Tate Gallery, Louvre, Musee D’Orsay,

Musee Rodin, Academia, Uffizi, Vatican Museum, Metropolitan,

Guggenheim, Hermitage. Almost all major cities in Canada and the

U.S. have an Art gallery (Edmonton Art Gallery, VAG, Glenbow…)

Sculpture and 3-D Design

  1. Ancient Culture 3-D design in choice of media
  2. Found Objects and Mixed-Media
  3. Paper, papier mache, wire, wood, plaster, clay, found objects, mixed media (an extension of previously studied media and techniques based upon self-directed research and experimentation as well as integration of culturally appropriate visual information). Selected culture should not be the same as that studied in Art 20 IB.

Methods: History, theory, media, technique, self-directed research and

development of personal style and statement.

Concepts: aesthetics, function, form, icon, S.C.A.M.P.E.R., DIG it!

Research connections: Inuit, Aztec, Inca, Mayan, Olmec, Stonehenge, Kwakiutl,

secret society, terra cotta soldiers, sphinx, African Kota, Gothic, Baroque,

Renaissance, Romanesque, Yoruba…

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