Course-wide Assessment Evaluation for ARTS-262 (Painting 2)
In-class Assignment, Fall 2013 and Fall 2014
Department of Art and Design
Submitted by Liz Di Giorgio
Course assessed: all sections of ARTS-262, Painting 2.
Relevant QCC Educational Objectives
1. Communicate effectively through reading, writing, listening, and speaking
5. Integrate knowledge and skills in their program of study
10. Apply aesthetic and intellectual criteria in the evaluation or creation of works in the
humanities or the arts
Relevant Curricular Objectives
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS: CONCENTRATIONS IN ART AND
PHOTOGRAPHY, DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE ARTS, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY,
A.S. (FA1)
A. In praxis, students will demonstrate progressive development and competency in the
technical skills requisite for artistic self-expression in at least one major area of performance.
B. Students will demonstrate a progressive understanding of the various elements and basic
interrelated processes of creation, interpretation, and execution within their discipline.
C. In written work, discussion and creation of art, students will appropriately utilize the
vocabulary of their respective discipline.
G. Students will integrate personal observation and objective criticism in the evolution of
their artistic work.
H. Students will form and defend fundamental value judgments about works of art within
their major area of concentration.
I. Employing creative abstraction, metaphor and imagination, students will create art which
clearly articulates their evolving artistic vision, and satisfies their drive toward expression.
Course Objectives
This course is a continuation of Painting 1, and assumes basic knowledge and experience in
oil or acrylic painting. Individual creativity is encouraged and may include working from
nature, still life, and the human figure, with the addition of visual points of view other than
the representational.
1
Technical
Through direct experience, lectures, demonstrations, classroom projects, discussions, group
critiques, and classroom projects, students will develop a method of working that that is
specifically suited to the needs of personal artistic expression.
Aesthetic
1. Students will demonstrate increased knowledge and skill, as well as artistic intention in the
application of paint and medium.
2. Students will demonstrate an ability to observe and measure placement, proportion, scale
and perspective.
3. Students will demonstrate an ability to distinguish between color and value in a given
subject and will demonstrate an ability to create a nuanced appearance of form.
4. Students will demonstrate an increased ability to perceive and depict a range of tonal
values and intensity with regard to color.
5. Students will demonstrate an increased and nuanced understanding of color with regard to
complementary and analogous color usage.
6. Students will demonstrate an ability to distinguish between warm and cool color, and an
ability to use them with artistic intention.
7. Students will demonstrate an ability to work with layers of paint or glazing to achieve
color and lighting effects.
8. Students will employ a method of paint application appropriate to artistic and aesthetic
intentions.
9. Students will demonstrate an increased competence in composition as evidenced by
balance or expressive choices in the use of positive or negative space, patterns, rhythm
and/or visual paths, through the arrangement of all elements on the canvas.
10. Students will develop an understanding of the work of the masters of the discipline, and
integrates this knowledge in his or her work.
11. Students will demonstrate an ability to analyze the formal elements of a painting to
formulate objective criticism.
12. Students will demonstrate an ability to evaluate criticism and to consider revising
elements of a painting to clarify artistic intentions.
13. Students will demonstrate an ability to deviate from, exaggerate or otherwise transcend
perceived reality in order to achieve greater artistic expression.
2
Assessment Project
Students will complete a painting in the categories of still life, portrait, landscape or figure, a
drawing that is abstracted from those categories, or a nonobjective work.
Painting 2 ARTS-262 Rubric Results
Semester: Fall 2013 and Fall 2014
Total students evaluated:
Evaluation data sources: Studio assignments, class discussions and group critiques
Excellent
1. Demonstrates increased knowledge and
Good
skill in the application of paint and medium. Average
Fair
Poor
2. Demonstrates an ability to observe and
measure placement, proportion, scale and
perspective.
3. Demonstrates an ability to distinguish
between color and value in a given subject
and demonstrates ability to create a nuanced
appearance of form.
4. Demonstrates an increased ability to
perceive and depict a range of tonal values
and intensity with regard to color.
5. Demonstrates increased and nuanced
understanding of color with regard to
complementary and analogous color usage.
6. Demonstrates an ability to distinguish
between warm and cool color, and an ability
to use them with artistic intention.
7. Demonstrates an ability to work with
layers of paint or glazing to achieve color
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
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and lighting effects.
8. Employs a method of paint application
appropriate to artistic and aesthetic
intentions.
9. Demonstrates competence in
composition as evidenced by balance or
expressive choices in the use of positive or
negative space, patterns, rhythm and/or
visual paths, through the arrangement of all
elements on the canvas.
10. Develops an understanding of the work
of masters of the discipline, and integrates
this knowledge in his or her work.
11. Demonstrates an ability to analyze the
formal elements of a painting to formulate
objective criticism.
12. Demonstrates an ability to evaluate
objective criticism and to revise a painting to
clarify artistic intentions.
13. Demonstrates an ability to deviate from,
exaggerate or otherwise transcend perceived
reality in order to achieve greater artistic
expression.
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
Excellent
Good
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Fair
Poor
Results by Category
Total number of projects assessed: 20
1. Demonstrates increased knowledge and skill in the application of paint and medium.
4
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
12
5
3
0
0
2. Demonstrates an ability to observe and measure placement, proportion, scale and
perspective.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
11
6
3
0
0
3. Demonstrates an ability to distinguish between color and value in a given subject and
demonstrates ability to create a nuanced appearance of form.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
11
7
2
0
0
4. Demonstrates an increased ability to perceive and depict a range of tonal values and
intensity with regard to color.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
12
3
4
1
0
5. Demonstrates increased and nuanced understanding of color with regard to
complementary and analogous color usage.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
10
4
6
0
0
5
6. Demonstrates an ability to distinguish between warm and cool color, and an ability to use
them with artistic intention.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
9
5
6
0
0
7. Demonstrates an ability to work with layers of paint or glazing to achieve color and
lighting effects.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
9
6
5
0
0
8. Employs a method of paint application appropriate to artistic and aesthetic intentions.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
11
6
2
1
0
9. Demonstrates the ability to use methods, marks or materials suited to a personal aesthetic
or artistic purpose.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
11
7
1
1
0
10. Develops an understanding of the work of masters of the discipline, and integrates this
knowledge in his or her work.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
9
8
3
0
0
11. Demonstrates an ability to analyze the formal elements of a painting to formulate
objective criticism.
6
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
12
5
3
0
12. Demonstrates an ability to evaluate objective criticism and to revise a painting to clarify
artistic intentions.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
12
6
2
0
0
13. Demonstrates an ability to deviate from, exaggerate or otherwise transcend perceived
reality in order to achieve greater artistic expression.
Excellent
Good
Average
Fair
Poor
14
3
3
0
0
Action Plan
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Suggest a series of works on one theme, working on a larger scale, and more practice
with glazing.
Emphasize the importance of composition.
Emphasis should be placed on the importance of being present and arriving on time
in the classroom.
Show more examples of glazing to students whose style of work could benefit from
the use of glazing.
(Please see Appendix A for artifacts)
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Appendix A
4 Artifacts
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