Art Curriculum
JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN & KINDERGARTEN
- Identify primary and secondary colors
- Utilize proper techniques using small motor skills with crayons, paint, markers, and scissors
- Introduce the color wheel
- Introduce overlapping
- Feel and identify textures
- Identify basic shapes: circle, square, triangle, and rectangle
- Identify the difference between geometric and organic shapes
- Develop skill in drawing and cutting shapes
- Recognition of 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional objects
- Basic awareness and experience with various art media
- Art history: famous artists in history, recognizable periods in history
GRADE ONE
- Use of color schemes/ basic color theory
- Line, shape and form emphasized
- Exploration of texture as it relates to value
- Using entire picture space
- Patterns as a tool for rhythm and harmony
- Introduction to the figure: portraiture and body composition
- Overlapping reinforced with focus on distance and space
- Recognition of 3D and 2D objects reinforced
- Introduction of points of view
- Art history: artists and periods discussed with emphasis on art reflecting culture and how art has changed over thousands of years
GRADE TWO
- Reinforce color wheel schemes/concepts
- Learn difference in line quality: rough and smooth, cut vs. ripped
- Balance, contrast and emphasis in compositions
- Patterns as a tool for rhythm and harmony
- Texture, form, volume and unity explored
- Use of value to illustrate texture and realism
- Using entire picture space effectively
- Introduction of positive and negative space (activating background space)
- Horizon line, depth and layering in a landscape
- Compare and contrast of artistic styles (I.E. realism vs. abstract)
- Alternative techniques with materials
- Subject-matter in art
- Art history: artists and periods discussed with emphasis on subject-matter, culture affecting art, artistic “value” and technical advancements in art
GRADE THREE
- Use of color/ color scheme to create “mood”
- Proportion, form and shape when drawing
- Reinforce formal elements of landscape: background, midground and foreground
- Conveying form and value more affectively
- Review rhythm , harmony and unity in compositions
- Employment of local and logical value
- Spatial relationships reviewed
- Reinforce ideas of positive and negative space
- Review balance, contrast, emphasis and dominance in compositions
- Review points of view
- Compare and contrast of artistic genres (I.E. landscape vs. portrait)
- Art history: artists and periods discussed with emphasis on subject-matter, individual expression in art, artistic “value” and discussions dealing with museum studies
- Homework: various to reinforce technical concepts and art history
GRADE FOUR
- Introduction to use of drawing pencils (I.E. 2B, 4B, 6H)
- Reviewing use of value and texture in realistic drawings
- Drawing as a sequence: sketch, detail, contour lines and shadows
- Advanced color theory
- Creating compositional unity with contrast and emphasis alongside rhythm and harmony
- Introducing interest and area of interest as it relates to elements and principles of design.
- Reviewing formal elements of landscape: background, midground, and foreground
- Compositional quality through rhythm, gradations and dominance
- Emotive expression with color and line
- Introduction of one-point perspective
- Compare and contrast various techniques within mediums
- Compare and contrast different forms of art
- Significance placed on student making independent, informed decisions when choices present themselves
- Art history: artists and periods discussed with emphasis on importance of art history as a discipline, “reading” images, artistic “value” and the definition of art
- Homework: various to reinforce technical concepts and art history
GRADE FIVE
- Reinforce use of proper drawing pencils
- Reviewing use of value, texture, shape and form in realistic drawings
- Drawing as a sequence: sketch, detail, contour lines and shadows
- Advanced color theory
- Space, form, line, proportion, balance and unity in compositions emphasized
- Adding artificial value to an object through line and color (making something appear to be real that isn’t)
- Introduction of cross-hatching
- Compositions that demonstrate several elements and principles of design in one art piece
- Drawing what you see, not what you think you see reinforced (for realistic drawing)
- Reviewing points of view
- Matching technique and medium with artist’s intent
- Mixing two dimensional and three dimensional elements
- Significance placed on student making independent, informed decisions when choices present themselves
- Art history: artists and periods discussed with emphasis on importance of art history to the study of art, artistic “value,” artistic movements and periods and achievements in art and art history
- Homework: various to reinforce technical concepts and art history
