Common Curriculum Map
Discipline: Fine Arts
Course: Art I
Unit 1 – What is Art?:
Standards:
25A: Understand the sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities of the arts
25B: Understand the similarities, distinctions, and connections in and among the arts.
26A: Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts.
26B: Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts.
27A:Understand how the arts function on history, society and everyday life.
27B: Understand how the arts shape and reflect history, society and everyday life.
Essential Questions:
What is art?
What is the roll of social context and culture in art?
Content:
criteria for determining "what is art?"
artforms, subjects and contexts
artists from a variety of time periods made with many different media
Types of Art & Artists and Jobs Related to (supporting) the arts
Visual art vs. performance art vs. music vs. drama (the other arts)
CRISS: ABCs of Jobs Related to Art
Skills:
recognize the broader view of art and the world today
recognize relationship between the artist's work and the social context in which the artist lived
consider the contribution of world-wide cultures past and present to the expansive variety of today's
art
list facts about an artwork using the descriptive process
(P. August Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party")
identify some conditions used to determine if a work is art
Assessment:
Is It Art? Group Situation Presentation
Quiz
Written Description of a work of Art
Unit 2 - Line:
Standards:
25A: Understand the sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities of the arts
26A: Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts.
26B: Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts.
Essential Questions:
How can different lines be created?
How can observation of the subject matter contribute to the quality of the drawing?
How can line be used to create value?
What is the difference between shape and form?
Content:
variety of line qualities
creation & viewing Keith Haring, Chinese Brush painting, Picasso,
Diego Rivera, Ben Shan, Morandi, Levin,etc.
observation skills
blind & modified contour drawing methods & related exercises
hatching & cross-hatching
foreshortening
proportional comparisons
optical mixing
implied lines vs. edges
CRISS: create a T-chart comparing Blind & Modified Contour Drawing
Skills:
Produce different lines with various drawing tools.
Differentiate between outlines and contour lines.
Identify lines in artworks such as descriptive, implied, or abstract.
Associate expressive qualities with different line techniques in drawing exercises
and in responding to artworks
Use descriptive lines to produce contour drawings representing threedimensional objects.
demonstrate methods of blind contour drawing
understand vocabulary associated with line
demonstrate methods of modified contour drawing
Use of hatching & crosshatching to show implied depth & form
Produce foreshortened shapes from observation using ellipses and trapezoids.
Assessment:
Line variety chart
observation line drawing based on a natural object
blind contour drawings
modified contour drawing
hatching & cross hatching shaded object
Quiz
Unit 3: Shape, Form & Space
Unit 3 – Shape and Form:
Standards:
25A: Understand the sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities of the arts
26A: Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts.
26B: Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts.
Essential Questions:
What is the difference between shape and form?
How can specific shapes or forms contribute expressive qualities to a work of art?
How can I create a successful sculpture?
What is negative space or negative shape?
Content:
Vocabulary specific to Shapes, Forms and Space
Figure Ground reversal /Complex Pattern
Observing Negative space
Methods for working with ceramic clay and glazes
MC Escher's work
Skills:
Recognize positive and negative shapes
open and closed shape & form
geometric and organic shape & form
active and static shape & form
implied forms
Recognize expressive qualities of shapes & forms in artworks.
Recognize figure ground relationships in a design causing reversal or stability
Distinguish between three-dimensional and two dimensional designs
Create a glazed ceramic sculpture
Explain how foreshortening shape and form affects the apparent depth and viewing
angle of objects and figures in artworks.
Assessment:
Unit 3: Shape, Form & Space
figure -ground design
sculptural form
quiz
Unit 4 - :
Standards:
25A: Understand the sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities of the arts
26A: Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts.
26B: Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts.
Essential Questions:
What is "value"? (value scale)
How can value help to imply form & depth?
How can I draw a more realistic facial self portrait?
Content:
Thumbnail sketches
Composition
tint & shade
color value
the idealized human facial proportions
monochromatic values
chiaroscuro
Skills:
Create Value variations with drawing and painting media to indicate light source and
forms appear three dimensional
Discuss how value communicates mood or emotion in artworks.
Identify and create a monochromatic color scheme
Idealized facial proportions
to make
Assessment:
sketchbook
value scales
Black & White Values painting
monochromatic portrait
quiz
Unit 5:
Standards:
25A: Understand the sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities of the arts
26A: Understand processes, traditional tools and modern technologies used in the arts.
26B: Apply skills and knowledge necessary to create and perform in one or more of the arts.
Essential Questions:
How can color help to create a mood in a work of art?
What is a color scheme?
What is surrealism?
Content:
the color wheel & color relationships
color schemes
neutral colors
warm & cool colors
surrealism
Skills:
Identify the 12 hue color wheel (primary, secondary & intermediate colors)
Discuss how color communicates mood or emotion in artworks.
Recognize the 5 basic color schemes: (monochromatic) analogous, complementary, split-complementary
and triads
Assessment:
sketchbook
quiz
mixed color surrealism painting