Art Foundations (Associate in Arts, 2017-2018)

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

1. Communicate aesthetic concepts in a variety of media employing fundamental techniques, color theory, shading, and texture.
2. Describe and demonstrate artistic visual communication skills conveying aesthetic concepts through perspective drawing and sketching employing various rendering techniques and media.
3. Create 3-D sculptural forms using an assortment of materials employing quality craftsmanship skills and the elements and principles of design.
4. Illustrate through visual compositions (including portraits) fundamental figurative drawing skills and visualization methods, synthesizing. gesture, line, value, proportion, and movement of the human anatomy through direct observation in an assortment of media.
5. Identify basic style changes within specific time periods, and discuss their impact and relationship to civilization..
6. Discuss how techniques were developed using art concepts and the impact of major historical, cultural, political, philosophical, social, and economic events had upon significant artistic movements from prehistoric art through the twenty-first century.
7. Analyze, present, and critique student original work and existing works employing the appropriate art/design vocabulary of compositional theory and the principles and elements of design.
8. Demonstrate standard art methodologies and processes in the creation of art objects through mixing clay, pinching porcelain, low and high fire pottery glazing, and pottery wheel basics.
9. Demonstrate standard art methodologies and processes in the creation of art objects through mixing paint, appropriate use of drawing bench, canvas prep and stretching, and palette materials and organization.