ART IV

Advanced Art must follow successful completion of Art III, and can be taken for either on or two semesters.  Advanced students are given problems, which must be solved using both their sketchbooks, in which they record their research and their creative ideas, and from which they work to produce projects.  They are allowed to use any media and whatever art supplies they desire.

 

By the time students complete four years of art, they should be able to have an excellent portfolio of their work to present for entrance into any art school, or for consideration for scholarships in the art field.

 

During the first month of school, Art IV students spend an entire day at the Toledo Museum of Art, touring the facility, writing a comparison of two works from the museum, and sketching a piece from the museum’s collection.

 

SYLLABUS

 

Quarter 1

Emotion Project.  Students determine several methods to visually depict a single emotion.

Painting the Spirit of Nature.  Students build an abstract painting using experimental application methods and working from a     close-up photograph of a natural object.

 

Quarter 2

Airbrush Project using both stencil and free hand techniques

Block on the Wall

Realistic Portrait in any medium

 

Quarter 3

Art In Focus book

          Nineteenth Century Art

          Twentieth Century Art

          Modern Art Movements

Power Point Slide Show of and Artist from the above study

Pen and Ink and Watercolor

 

Quarter 4

Art Show Display

Choice Project