AP STUDIO ART - 2D DESIGN
Syllabus
Teacher: William Cruz
Website
Mail box: (básica bulding)
Room A 2.2
http://artenogales.wordpress.com/a-p/
E-mail: wcruz@nogales.edu.co
This is a two-term class, Studio Art in the first semester and A.P Studio
Art in the second one. This is an optional class; therefore, students
booked in this course are expected to be seriously interested in the
practical experience of art and wish to develop mastery in the concept,
composition, and execution of their ideas.
Course Description
The Studio Art exam is not a written one, instead of that, students have
to prepare and submit a portfolio to be evaluated. All of the participants
are required to make a serious investigation of the three aspects of the
2D design portfolio: Quality, Breath and Concentration.
Having in mind the foundations of design and composition the first
projects will be addressed to make an exploration of different technical
and conceptual possibilities to solve several issues; after this, students
are expected to begin working with their individual preferences and
ideas, the teacher is not going to say what o how to do something but to
guide and follow each process.
Goals
The objectives of this course are to encourage students to:
Approach and solve challenging issues in an autonomous way using
technical and intellectual skills in such way that they achieve college
level in concept, composition and execution in 2-D design.
Investigate and develop an idea to create the body of their own portfolio
that grows up in a coherent way.
Understand that the art is an ongoing process that involves them in
informed and critical decision making to develop ideation.
Manage a competent method and a technical vocabulary for making art
critique processes, not only for the others pieces but for their own.
Create compositions having in mind the use of the elements of art and
principles of design to achieve an effect.
Required Skills
There is not any pre requirement to enroll in this class; however, all of
the students booked are expected to work hard and be warned about
the implications of developing a 2-D portfolio of college-level, showing
mastery not only in the develop of concepts, but in the execution and
the use of the elements and principles of art in 2-D.
Critique, Art History & Analysis
Looking at the art history and the way different artists and art
movements have worked we will identify and go through the process of
creation.
Critiques are going to be based in a basic structure given in class and in
the format bellow, and will be used as the way that each student get
feedback from the partners. This work analysis includes composition,
execution and concept.
Special critique sessions will be scheduled.
Homework
As in all of the A.P. classes, in this one, students are expected to
complete home assignments, especially because we have only two work
sessions a week, therefore students will spend a considerable amount of
time outside the classroom working on the portfolio development.
Summer Assignments
All of the students have to complete the summer and winter assignments as
they appear in the course blog: http://artenogales.wordpress.com/a-p/,
these assignments can include drawings, paintings and collages that must be
done on an 18x24 surface. At the same time students must work in their
personal sketchbook.
Ethic
“Any work that makes use of other artists’ work (including photographs)
and/or published images must show substantial and significant
development beyond duplication. This may be demonstrated through
manipulation of the formal qualities, design, and/or concept of the
original work. It is unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates
copyright law simply to copy an image (even in another medium) that
was made by someone else”. (1)
Assessment and Evaluation
All of the class processes will be evaluated using three different models:
by the teacher, by the student itself and by a partner or a group of
them. All of the evaluations are going to be done using rubrics based on
the image reading process.
Portfolio Development
The AP 2-D Design course promotes a sustained investigation of all
three aspects of portfolio development—Quality, Concentration, and
Breadth—as is outlined in the AP Studio Art Course Description and
Studio Art poster throughout the duration of the course.
Breath section
This section shows the range of experimentation and experience in
2-D Design. It is presented as twelve images, each of which shows
a different work. In addition to the quality of the work, it is scored
on the degree to which it actually shows a variety of approaches to
problem solving in 2-D Design.
“The student’s work in this section should demonstrate
understanding of the principles of design, including unity/variety,
balance, emphasis, contrast, rhythm, repetition, proportion/scale,
and figure/ground relationship. Successful works of art require the
integration of the elements and principles of design; students
must therefore be actively engaged with these concepts while
thoughtfully composing their art. The work in this section should
show evidence of conceptual, perceptual, expressive, and technical
range”. (2)
During the first weeks all of the work will be assigned by the
teacher and the products are expected to take part of the Breath
section of the portfolio.
Concentration
Twelve images, as well as the breath section, but these ones have
to be related and must reflect the investigation around a selected
theme.
While students are working in the breath section, they will be
encouraged to formulate different ideas for their “concentration”
and begin working in three of them, not only in the graphic part
but in the written one, talking about how they formulate and
develop their ideas, the way they chose the appropriate
techniques and the artists that influenced him/her.
“They will see work created for different artists, designers,
photographers and illustrators from the history to discover indepth exploration topics studied by others. Students will write a
reflective paper about their concentration, including what they
started out to achieve and how it changed and evolved during
their discovery journey”. (3)
Quality
Quality refers to the mastery of design principles that should be
apparent in the composition, concept, and execution of the works,
whether they are simple or complex. There is no preferred (or
unacceptable) style or content.
For this section, students are asked to submit five actual works in
one or more media.
Students should carefully select the works that demonstrate their
highest level of accomplishment in 2-D design. (4)
Sketchbook
The sketchbook work will be the best way to develop the
investigation in concentrations as well as formulate possible
compositions for future works and practice mixed techniques and
drawing. It is expected that students work in their sketchbook as
well as in other works not only in class, but outside the classroom
and class schedule.
These are the units that students will be work in during the course
unit
Summary content
Image analysis and interpretation Analysis of composition in photos,
master pieces, students and pears
work.
Painting
Exercises of painting based in the
“fauve” style.
Technique exploration
Exercises with markers,
watercolor, transfer, mixed media,
etc.
Investigation
Define three possible themes for
the concentration, investigate,
write and work in each of them.
Composition
Exercises of possible variations of
the space organization with the
same objects and elements. Rule
of thirds, golden section.
Looking at the masters
Choose some artists and produce
artwork based in the artists style
(use of technique and elements of
art and principles of design) and
students composition.
Portrait
Based in models and having in
mind basic drawing structures.
Sketchbook
Art Principles
Perspective
Magnify object
Digital works
Figure/ground
Color paper
Collage
Concentration
Design Practices
Portfolio presentation
Printmaking
Positive/negative
Repeated design
Drawings from observation
analytical research, thumbnail
sketches for future projects,
drawings of artwork or sculpture
from a museum, studio idea
development for major
projects Written critiques, media
experiments.
Produce works having in mind a
specific art principle, using
different techniques and processes.
Drawing of an architectural space
with two vanishing points.
Or composition based in a
sketchbook drawing.
Illustration using photo shop
Compositions emphasizing
figure/ground relationships.
Based on the work of Henri Matisse
,
Based in the process used by the
cubists.
Develop the personal voice based
in the definition of a theme from
the student’s investigations.
Exercises of composition based on
the elements variations.
Tips for taking photos of the work
done at the moment and
presentation of the breath and
concentration sections.
Linoleum print.
Design using positive and negative
images
Using patterns and variations of
rhythm, form, size and direction.
Image reading process
Description: describe the figures and backgrounds in the image; you
can include information like title, artist, date and technique.
Analysis: talk about the design and composition, use of resources like
“rule of thirds”, “golden section”, structures…; you can also have to talk
about how successful the use of the elements and the principles of art
is, having in mind the issue of the artwork.
Interpretation: What does the image talk about? Does it use metaphors?
What is the purpose of the artist?
Critique commentary: What is your opinion about the artwork? You can
talk about the subject-matter, technique, composition, unity and the
relationship between all of the aspects in the work.
Bibliography
The New Drawing on the right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards, Urano, 2000.
Design Basis, David A. Laurel / Stephen Pentak, Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart, Mc Graw Hill, 2008.
Drawing A Contemporary Approach, Teel Sale / Claudia Betti, Wadsworth
Cengage Learning, 2006.
The Art of Seeing, Paul Zelanski / Mary Pat Fischer, Pearson Prentice Hall,
2007.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Collegeboard,
Collegeboard,
Collegeboard,
Collegeboard,
A.P. Studio Art Course Description
A.P. Studio Art Course Description
Syllabus Development Guide: AP Studio Art: 2-D Design
A.P. Studio Art Course Description