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Welcome students and parents to the Visual Arts Department. The 2011 - 2012 visual arts program is intended to keep you informed of major events, class assignments, and student needs at Pin Oak Middle School through out the school year.
This year the students will participate in an exciting visual arts educational program that will help in the development and understanding of this course through the art elements and the art principles. The students will explore great artworks, artists, and cultures locally and of the world. Additionally, the students will develop skills to appreciate art, participate in hands-on techniques, and develop critical thinking skills by creating and studying their own and others’ artwork.
More often than not, the visual arts is playing a vital role in education and in learning. Unlike other subject areas, in visual arts, the students are introduced to ways of thinking creatively, imaginatively. and academically. The visual arts encourages the students to think and learn in a variety of ways, and the students are required to demonstrate an understanding of the language of art and logic skills.
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ARTISTS BORN IN JANUARY
updated January 7, 2012
Alfred Stieglitz, born January 1,
Gustave Dore, born January 6
Albert Bierstadt, born January 7
John Singer Sargent, born January 12
Berthe Morisot, born January 14
Paul Cezanne, born january...
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This course is designed to reinforce and extend previous knowledge by developing academic vocabulary and actual hands-on-techniques to form the foundation of a lifelong interest. The students must have an insight of basic art skills, and a willingness to reach another level in the visual arts. The students must have completed one course of art and received recommendations from a previous art teacher. Additionally, the students will show perception, creative and self-expression, culture and heritage, and acquire knowledge of Art History.
Link to ADVANCED ART - period 5 |
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This course is designed to reinforce and extend previous knowledge by developing academic vocabulary and actual hands-on-techniques to form the foundation of a lifelong interest. The student must have an insight of basic art skills, and a willingness to reach another level in the visual arts. The student must have completed one course of art and received recommendations from a previous art teacher. Additionally, the student will show perception, creative and self-expression, culture and heritage, and acquire knowledge of Art History.
Link to ADVANCED ART - period 6 |
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This high level thinking course is designed to prepare the previously advanced art student for High School Advanced Placement Studio Art. The student must have a well organized portfolio by the end of the first semester; a prerequisite for AP Studio Art. Additionally, the student should have an eighty-five to ninety per cent understanding of the Elements and Principles of Design.
THE STUDENT IS EXPECTED TO MASTER THE FOLLOWING ASSIGNMENTS:
1.Elements and Principles of Art
2.Contour drawing
3.Gesture drawing
4.Art Journal cover design
5.One-point, Two-point, and Three-
point perspective drawings
6.Drawing and painting landscapes
7.Color Theory
8.Composition Theory
9.Illustration
10.Visual puns
11.Interior Design-isometric projection
12.Photo Realism-self-portrait
Link to ADVANCED ART-UPPER LEVEL |
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This class is designed to reinforce and extend previous knowledge by developing academic vocabulary, art history, and hands-on-techniques to form the foundation of a lifelong interest.
Link to GENERAL ART - period 2 |
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This class is designed to reinforce and extend previous knowledge by developing academic vocabulary and actual hands-on-techniques to form the foundation of a lifelong interest.
Link to GENERAL ART - period 7 |
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This course is designed to reinforce and extend previous knowledge by developing academic vocabulary,art history, and hands-on-techniques to form the foundation of a lifelong interest.
Link to GENERAL ART - period 8 |
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This class is designed to reinforce and extend previous knowledge by developing academic vocabulary, art history, and hands-on-techniques to form the foundation of a lifelong interest.
Link to GENERAL ART - period 3 |
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Pin Oak MS
SL Walker
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