Advanced Placement
Studio Art
Breadth
Concentration
Quality
What is the AP Art exam?
You will create and submit 24 artworks
at the beginning of May.
You will find out your grade in July.
24 artworks, submitted electronically:
12 Breadth
12 Concentration
From these 24 artworks, you will choose 5 to
submit physically to the College Board.
Breadth
Your first semester of Advanced
Placement Studio Art will be spent on
your Breadth portfolio entry.
This consists of twelve artworks which
display your talent in a variety of styles,
techniques, media, and subject matter.
Quality
After all 24 artworks are created, you will
choose five to physically submit to the
College Board.
These five artworks must display excellent
attention to detail, composition, style, and
use of media.
Concentration
Your second semester of Advanced
Placement Studio Art will be spent on
your Concentration portfolio entry.
This consists of twelve artworks with one
OVER-ARCHING THEME.
This theme is a concept of your choice.
What theme will you choose?
Concentration ideas
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Close up of insects in unusual place
Anthropomorphic appliances
Family celebrations gone wrong
Figures at rest from an unusal
perspective
Mechanical Dreamscapes
Objects emerging from deep shadow
People morphing into animals
People doing chores they dislike
Futuristic furniture
Concentration ideas
• Exploration of textures on decaying
leaves
• Cropped portraits of classmates
• Twister Portraits
• Junkyard Still Life
• Crime and Punishment
• Seven Deadly Sins
Concentration ideas
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Dance images
The struggle to find oneself
Home in its coziest
Car Interiors
Childhood memories and objects
Toys/Games
Visions of the future of a school
Evolution of an item as it decomposes
Concentration ideas
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Foreshortened Figures or Objects
Things that make me cringe
Historical Events in a new light
Reflections of Images Within
Emotional Exploration
Things that come in pairs
“The Attic” childhood experience
Surreal Musical Instruments
Media
You will choose your medium or media
at a later date.
For now, you need to choose
an OVER-ARCHING THEME
for you to pursue
as your Concentration Idea.
Here are some artist concentrations
to think about.
Concentration
Idea:
Cubist Portraits
Lyubov
Sergeevna
Popova
ZHU YIYONG
Concentration idea:
Closeups of children
playing cat’s cradle
Yuri Kudryavtsev-Dobrohotov
Concentration
Idea: Cubist
Russian
Landscape
Daniel Merriam
Concentration idea:
watercolor fantasy
anthropomorphic buildings.
Rob Gonsalves
Concentration idea:
buildings morphing
into other objects
Concentration
idea:
Effects of rain
on landscapes
in neutral and
dull colors
Charles
Burchfield
George
Andreas
Concentration
idea:
Negative
states
of emotion in
abstract
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AP Studio Art Calendar for Digital and Physical Portfolio Submission
Duedates
9/1 Breadth 1
9/8 Breadth 2
9/15 First Idea Proposal for your Concentration
9/22 Breadth 3
9/29 Second Idea Proposal for your Concentration, refined
10/6 Breadth 4
10/13 Breadth 5
10/20 Breadth 6
10/27 Final Idea Proposal for your Concentration with description of all twelve images
11/3 Breadth 7
11/10 Breadth 8
11/17 Breadth 9
11/24 Concentration 1-6 sketches with descriptions
12/1 Breadth 10, Art show design idea
12/8 Breadth 11
12/15 Breadth 12, Final Exam/Art Show Display due December 16!
1/5 Concentration 7-12 sketches with descriptions, Art Show is January 6, 3-7pm!
in the Media Center
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1/12 Concentration 1 is due today!