Grade 8 - Visual Art

Visual Art

Drawings

Compositions

Encounters

Record: students will examine and simplify basic shapes and spaces.

Investigate: Students will employ space, proportion, and relationships for image making.

Communicate: Students will use expressiveness in their use of elements in the making of images.

Articulate and Evaluate: Students will use the vocabulary of art criticism to develop a positive analysis of their work. 

Components 1: Students will create compositions in both two- and three-dimensions.

Components 2: Students will experiement with the transformation of space in compositions.

Relationships 1: Students will investigate the use of pattern and emphasis in the creation of compositions.

Relationships 2: Students will use the vocabulary of art criticism to develop a positive analysis of their work.

Organizations: Students will experiment with value, light, atmosphere and colour selection to reflect mood in composition.

Sources of Images: Students will investigate form and structure of natural and man-made objects as sources of images.

Transformations Through Time: Students will compare varying interpretations of natural forms and man-made artifacts through time and across cultures.

Impact of Images: Students will consider the impact of man-made structures upon human activity in the modern world.

Shapes may be organic or geometric.

Geometric and organic shapes can be used to create positive and negative spaces.

The size of depicted figures or objects locates those objects in relationship to the ground or picture plane.

Overlapping figure or objects create an illusion of space in two-dimensional works.

The amount of detail depicted creates spatial depth in two-dimensional works.

Parallel lines meeting at a vanishing point create linear perspective in two-dimensional works.

Proportion can be analyzed by using a basic unit of a subject as a measuring tool.

The principles of repetition or emphasis can be applied to achieve unity in two-dimensional works.

Line can be used freely and rhythmically to add mood or movement to a two-dimensional image.

Points of view can be developed to express certain ideas such as mood or proximity in two-dimensional works.

Scale drawings and simple systems can communicate architectural ideas in drawing form.

Identifying and describing techniques and media is part of learning to talk about art.

Dominant elements and principles or applications of media can be discussed by students in relationship to the effective solving of their visual problems. 

Discussing the most appealing or favourite part of a student's own work is part of learning to talk about art.

A. Two-dimensional tableaux can be used to depict groups of people in action.

B. Low relief tableaux can be used to depict groups of people in action.

C. Man-made or natural objects can be represented in a variety of three-dimensional media.

Three-dimensional figures or units may be presented as open forms.

Value or colour can emphasize negative space over positive space.

Space can be altered or distorted for special effects in two-dimensional works.

A pattern or motif can be repeated to create certain spatial effects.

Motifs can be designed to convey personal identity as in popular or folk-art images.

Techniques and media that students have used to make their images can be identified and described.

Dominant elements and principles of media applications can be discussed by students in relation to the effective solving of their visual problems.

Discussing the most appealing or favourite part of a student's own work is part of learning to talk about art.

Mood in composition can be affected by proximity or similarity of selected figures or units.

Mood in composition can be affected by the selection of various colour schemes such as intense, aggressive schemes or harmonious, pastel schemes.

Mood in composition can be enhanced by the intensity of the light source and the value of the rendered shading.

Skeletal structure affects the shape and surface of an object, artifact, or the human figure.

Mass structure has an affect on the shape and form of an object or artifact.

Comparisons between natural forms and architectural systems illustrate the functional aspects of natural structure.

Natural forms and structures have been interpreted by artists of various cultures for decorative and artistic purposes.

Natural forms and structures provide sources for environmental design in the modern world.

Structural design of shelters may enhance or inhibit human activities.

Decorative and functional works enhance public and private buildings.