Boyer
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Art at Newtown Middle School
Ms. Boyer
email: kaitlyn.boyer@crsd.org
In Council Rock, we embrace a comprehensive and innovative arts education! We are teaching our children to be problem solvers, strong communicators, collaborators and critical thinkers! The art teachers collaborate regularly to ensure we are providing our students with a curriculum that is both contemporary and exciting! Lessons are based on the National and State Visual Arts Standards. Students have the opportunity to be involved in every step of the art making process from brainstorming, sketching and planning to creating, reflecting and reworking.
Newtown's Art Program Curriculum Overview
7th Grade
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS |
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Production |
Is skill necessary to make good art? |
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History |
What can art tell us about our society and ourselves? |
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Criticism |
Whose view is more important, artist or art viewer? |
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Aesthetics |
What makes a piece of art great? What makes a piece of art valuable? |
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SKILLS |
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Elements and Principles |
Color: Properties of Color: -Value (lightness or darkness of a color) -Tints (Adding white to a color) -Shades (Adding black to a color) Color Harmonies and Usages: -Complementary (Using complements to shade or tint, colors that look nice together), Neutrals (black, white, brown, tan, gray), Analogous (Three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. These colors will mix well and not make a neutral), Tertiary (Mixing a primary and secondary color together), Proper names of tertiary colors. Space: -Experiment with devices for creating the illusion of space: overlapping, perspective, variation in sizes, vertical location, value change, amount of detail -A realistic picture should be created using only one viewpoint -Experiment with a variety of viewpoints: birds-eye view, worms-eye view, eye-level |
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Structures and Functions of Art |
Styles of Representation: -Exposure to Realistic and Surrealistic art -Realistic: based on real subjects or objects, direct observation -Surrealistic: dream-like, incongruent imagery Art Forms: -Experimentation in any of the following: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Mixed-Media, Collage, Clay, Sculpture, Digital Art Media: -Medium: the material you use to create a work of art -Exploration of 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional media (for example: colored pencil, tempera) Subject Matter: -Perspective -Exploration of Land, Sea and City Scapes - Color |
8th Grade
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS |
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Production |
Do artists problem solve during the creative process? |
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History |
What purpose can art serve to a culture? |
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Criticism |
Do you feel that knowing what the artist was trying to say is important in understanding a work of art? Why? |
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Aesthetics |
Does an artists’ craftsmanship and finishing affect the way viewers see art? |
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SKILLS |
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Elements and Principles |
Line: Types of Lines: -Contour, Blind-Contour, Continuous, Gestural -Line Weight: Thick/Thin -Structure: Lines can be used to block in shapes and forms -Organic lines vs. Geometric lines Line Usages: -Structure: Lines can be used to block in shapes and forms -Lines can be used to create value: cross-hatching, stippling, hatching Shapes and Forms: -Forms can be viewed in the round -Shapes can create forms: squares can build cubes, rectangles can build cylinders, triangles can make cones - Forms can be functional or decorative -Types of composition: rule of thirds, breaking up a picture plane (foreground, middle ground, background), going off a picture plane (object isn’t centered and goes off edge) Contrast: -Arrangement of Opposite Elements: light vs. dark, rough vs. smooth, large vs. small - Contrasting themes or subjects |
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Structures and Functions of Art |
Styles of Representation: -Realistic: based on real subjects or objects, direct observation -Distorted Reality: juxtaposing scale/view-point in a work of art (ex: photographing yourself holding up the leaning tower of Pisa) - Experimentation in any of the following: Op-Art, Abstract Art, Non-objective Art Forms: Exploration of Clay as a medium: -Hand building techniques: coil and slab -Clay joining: slip and score -Clay cycle: wet, dry, firing, glazing -Craftsmanship: finishing techniques, unity of thickness, functionality -Surface techniques: additive or subtractive relief, texture, glazing, or methods yet to be determined Exploration in Two-Dimensional Media: -Experimentation in any of the following: drawing, mark-making, painting, printmaking, collage Media: -Medium: the material you use to create a work of art -Application of painted color: watercolors, tempera, acrylic, glaze -Exploration of 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional media (for example: colored pencil, tempera) Subject Matter: -Exposure to the following: Direct-observation, Figures, Portraits, Social, Cultural, Contemporary |