ART 1 - DESCRIPTION AND POLICIES
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Art is about ideas. All school subjects are primarily about ideas, whether it's the history of human thought, the scientific or mathematical quantification of ideas, or the manipulation and expression of ideas through visual art, music, language or writing. Artists, throughout time, have used art making materials and methods to explore and investigate ideas. They have used the visual language of art to express and broadcast their ideas. In the course of the year, Art 1 student artists will explore the materials, methods and visual language used by contemporary and historical artists. Most importantly though we will concentrate on developing our art making skills as a means to explore and express our own ideas.
Art 1 artists will be working with a variety of drawing, painting, and printmaking media. We will deal with many of the concepts all artists deal with in the creation of an art work. In the first semester we will emphasize working from observation in an attempt to understand how we see. We will concentrate on developing our drawing skills with a variety of media. We will complete a unit on color theory during the second marking period. In the second semester we will concentrate on painting assignments, complete an art history research project and work through units on printmaking and architecture.
Materials Required : 9" x 11" spiral bound or hardbound sketchbook Make sure to get one with a decent grade of drawing paper (not too thin!). DO NOT get sketch pads or perforated paper sketchbooks (they fall apart or lose drawings too easily).
Materials To Have For Homework Assignments:
Color Pencil set (a 24 color Berol Prismacolor Set is best)
Set of Fine Point Color Magic Markers
Watercolor Set (a set of watercolor cakes or tubes is fine)
Drawing Pencils ( 6B, 4B, 2B, HB, & 2H )
Erasers (a pink eraser and either a "kneaded" eraser or a "gum" eraser)
Glue (glue sticks are great for sketchbooks)
All these materials are available at Merion Art and Repro Center at 17 W. Lancaster Ave. in Ardmore, Pearl Paint on South Street in Phila., A.C. Moore in Broomall and at most other art supply stores.
Homework:
Homework assignments are designed to reinforce the work we are doing in class. At times homework assignments are designed to prepare for a class assignment. Homework though serves another important function, it extends your "art making" experience to the world outside our studio and helps to bring your own world into our studio. It is vital to your success as a young artist in Art 1 that your homework assignments be completed and submitted on time.
When homework assignments call for:
"drawings" it means: complete ideas, using the full page, a finished work.
"studies" it means: multiple attempts to draw the subject on the same page, some more developed than others, trying to gain understanding about the subject.
"sketches" it means: planning drawings used as preparation for a more finished future work, using the whole page with some areas more developed than others and may include written notes.
Homework submitted after the date due will not receive full credit. Work a week or more late will receive no credit but must still be completed to avoid further penalty.
Grades
Marking periods are determined from a combination of class assignment grades, homework assignments and a studio behavior grades. Class assignments comprise 55% of a marking period grade, homework 35%, and studio behavior makes up the final 10%. Individual class projects vary in the amount of time dedicated to them and their project grades are weighted accordingly.
Exams
There are Art Mid-Term and Final exams. Each exam asks Art 1 artists to develop a creative project and to write a descriptive essay and critique. The creative component comprises 55% of the exam grade, the essay 35%, and studio behavior during the exam periods makes up the final 10%. An exam grade is worth 20% of a semester grade.
Critiques
Each class project will finish with a class critique. All works are displayed and discussed in class. Each artist is expected to speak about at least one displayed work. The quality of your participation in class critiques contributes to the studio behavior part of your marking period grade and may affect individual project grades.
Cheating and Plagiarism Policies:
All artwork handed in as homework, assignments, or exams must be created completely by the student submitting the work.
While artists often seek inspiration from a variety of sources, the Haverford Art Department expects that all students will acknowledge and identify any artwork, photograph, or other image which appears, relatively unaltered in their own work.
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