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Visual Arts 8 is a twelve week course, with 90 minute
classes every other day. This course focuses upon the studio units of
drawing, painting, commercial art and crafts. The art history units
covered parallel the Social Studies and English curriculum in order to
provide the students with a well rounded foundation for the cultures they
study. Our primary focus is on the 20th century, including Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Pop Art,
and Op Art. We also investigate the history of architecture from Ancient
Egypt, Greece and Rome through present day. The development of animation
from single cell to live action is studied as well.
In addition to the production of artworks with a
historical basis, students are also taught about aesthetics, philosophy
and art criticism through reading and writing assignments, as well as
verbal discussions and critiques. |
