Last updated: 8/10/2007
Niagara Falls City School District
630 66th Street, Niagara Falls, NY 14304


Drawing and Painting - High School

(1) ARTS.VA.C.1.1.MS.A (MS) Students produce comprehensive and well organized commencement portfolios of their work.
(1) ARTS.VA.C.1.1.MS.B (MS) Students reveal through their work a broad investigation of a variety of individual ideas and at least one theme explored imaginatively and in depth.
(1) ARTS.VA.C.1.1.MS.C (MS) Students give evidence that they have developed an emerging personal style.
(1) ARTS.VA.C.1.1.MS.D (MS) Students use selected mediums and techniques and select the most appropriate mediums and techniques to communicate their ideas.
(1) ARTS.VA.C.2.1.MS.C (MS) Students understand the preparation required for particular art professions and acquire some skills of those professions through internships with local galleries, museums, advertising agencies, architectural firms, and other institutions.
(1) ARTS.VA.C.3.1.MS.A (MS) Students using the language of art criticism, describe the visual and functional characteristics of works of art and interpret the relationships of works of art one to another, to describe the impact of the work on the viewer.
(1) ARTS.VA.C.3.1.MS.B (MS) Students demonstrate an understanding of art criticism, art histories, and aesthetic principles and show their connections to works of art.
(1) ARTS.VA.C.4.1.MS.B (MS) Students interpret the meaning of works and artifacts in terms of the cultures that produced them.
(1) ARTS.VA.C.4.1.MS.C (MS) Students explain how cultural values have been expressed in the visual arts, how art works have been used to bring about cultural change and how the art of a culture has been influenced by art works coming from outside that culture.
Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes, and metaphors

Students will understand and use sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive images to communicate their own ideas in works of art

Students will use a variety of art materials, processes, mediums, and techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating and exhibiting visual art works

Students will explore art and artifacts form various historical periods and world cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a given time and place and to understand how the time and place influence the visual characteristics of the artwork

Students will explore art to understand the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of human society
Use a variety of methods to enhance drawing skills:  Inverted drawing, Seeing vs. Looking, modeling of form with value

Draw from direct observation:  Contour/cross contour, gesture, figure/portraiture, Still Life

Use various drawing systems:  Perspective, foreshorting, grid system, automatic drawing

Create non-representational drawings

Maintain pesonal sketchbook/journal

Experiment with a variety of paint applications, on a variety of surfaces, including:
Washes, blotting, under painting, dry brush, glazing, scumbling

Understand psychological effects of color through:  color theory, color field, color mixing

Analyze a variety of historical references and relate them to student's own work
CDOS
Standard 1
Performance Indicators 1b, 1c

ELA
Standard 1
Performance Indicators 1e, 2e

Standard 2
Performance Indicators 1b, 1c

MST
Standard 3
Performance Indicators 5a, 5b, 5f, 5l

Standard 5
Peformance Indicators 1d

Social Studies
Standard 2
Performance Indicators 1a

Standard 3
Performance Indicators 2c
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