Round Valley Arts Curriculum - Seventh and Eighth Grade Art

Round Valley Arts Curriculum

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE ART

I. ARTISTIC PERCEPTION

Students will interpret sensory information into the elements and principles of visual arts. They will demonstrate ability to analyze, interpret, and describe elements and principles of art:

ELEMENTS	PRINCIPLES
line	rhythm
form/shape	balance
color/value	variety
texture	unity
space	emphasis
	movement

II. CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Students will show basic competency to express themselves creatively in two- and three‑dimensional art. They will acquire artistic skills to express and communicate responses to experiences. They will develop manipulative organizational skills to use media effectively to translate ideas, feeling and values.

DRAWING

perspective	cross hatch	portraits	stippling
proportions	cartooning	blind contour	fashion
contour	still life	shading	nature
texture	charcoal	hatch	chalk
drafting	design

PAINTING

watercolor and tempra	displaying	mixing paint	color
wet on wet	oil pastels	transparent	opaque
wet on dry	masking	tint	salt
dry on dry	value	washes	intensity
mat	pointillism

CERAMlCS/SCULPTURE

construction	decorating	pinch	carving
coil	relief	slab	slip
free form	wax	handbuilding	painting
grog	stencil pattern	score	dip
sprig	splatter	throwing-wheel

PRINTMAKING	FABRIC ART

stencil	batik
pattern	tie dye
brayer	weaving
silkscreen
squeegee
block printing

III. HlSTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

1. Students will learn more about the development of two‑ and three‑dimensional art.

2. Students will become acquainted with the lives and works of these or other artists who demonstrate the above themes.

Marisol	Nevelson	Rodin	Moore	Abbott	Stella	Stieglitz
Oldenberg	Rothko	Segal	Christo	Hockney	Picasso

IV. AESTHETIC VALUING

Students will broaden and enhance their aesthetic responses to thc environment. They will develop greater skills to analyze, interpret, and describe their own work and the work of others. Experiences will include:

1. identifying and describing visual arts elements, using appropriate vocabulary.

2. analyzing aesthetic similarities and differences.

3. recognizing importance of individuality, creativity, and innovation.

V. CONNECTlONS, RELATlONS, APPLICATlONS

Understanding relationships between the arts and with disciplines outside the arts.

The students can connect, relate, and apply various types of arts knowledge and skills within the art form, across the arts discipline (dance, music, theater and visual arts) and with disciplines outside of the arts.

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