This course will introduce students to the methods, materials and techniques used in Commercial Art. Students will develop visual perception, critical thinking and individuality of expression. All learning experiences will be presented in a sequential manner with each experience building on previous ones culminating in a unified understanding of processes, techniques and skills. The students will develop a comprehensive understanding of simultaneous movements and their influence on each other, as well as, on past and present forms. This learning process will be enriched with hands-on projects and trips to museums and galleries.
Advanced placement is a one-year college level course for highly motivated art students.
It will emphasize the pursuit of the student's personal aesthetic vision through the use of a variety of materials and techniques. The course will focus on decision-making as a combined effort of the student, teacher and class. The process of creativity will be evidenced by producing art work of high quality, focusing on an art project which requires intense concentration, exploring a broad variety of visual experiences. Critiquing and the raising of aesthetic questions will be vital in order to involve the individual and class in the process of creating art. Dialogue, involving aesthetic questions and the introduction of historical and contemporary art works, will be used as departure points for student work.