Art 1
The course will introduce students to:Develop and explore the methods and techniques covered in each class. Develop and explore their own observational skills alongside purely imaginative elements or experimental ideas. Establish a regular habit of observing and recording, using both pictorial and verbal methods.
Students will also be encouraged to keep Scrap Books and Note Books to accompany and enhance both the work done in class and the work done in their Sketch Books.
The written exercises in Art 1 will introduce students to:
- Ideas and themes in contemporary (and historical) Art Criticism and Design Theory, with particular relevance to Moving Image history and practice.
- The methods and techniques appropriate to developing their own personal awareness of the importance and significance of all aspects of visual communication.
When the students have finished the course they can:
Skills:
- Draw with confidence from observation
- Draw with clarity from the imagination
Knowledge:
- Understand and appreciate the relevance and function of all visual and pictorial material within their own chosen specialist area of study
- the materials, techniques and methods most commonly used in traditional observational drawing
- the fundamentals of mark-making with graphite and chinagraph pencils
- the basics of portraiture
- the basics of figure drawing
- the basics of composition
- the basics of perpsective
- the basics of lighting
- (some of) the major developments in the History of Art & Design in Europe, America and Asia
General competence:
- Producing artistic content using traditional drawing tools
- the compilation, editing and maintenance of a personal folio of work appropriate to each individual student¿s chosen area of specialist study
In class students will be required to complete (and scan/photograph and save in the appropriate folder on Fronter):
- weekly observational drawing exercises
At home students will be required to complete (and scan/photograph and save in the appropriate folder on Fronter):
- weekly sketch book assignments
At home students will also be required to:
- research and write a short essay (1,000 to 1,500 words long)
- the essay will be a comparison between one work of art by an artist selected by the student and a second work of art by an artist chosen from a list provided by the teacher