An advanced course is also available. Painting This trimester elective is a continuation of the drawing course with an introduction to the use of color. Students are taught basic techniques in the use of painting materials by executing a series of paintings of graduated complexity. An advanced course is also available. Photography This one-trimester elective introduces students to the principles and processes of the art of making images.
Students learn the history and techniques of photography.
Using camera and darkroom, each student produces a portfolio of photographs. This one-trimester course examines the development of modern art movements in Europe and America from 1870 to the present. It includes Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Photo-Realism. Students examine the development of abstraction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and follow its evolution into non-objective artistic representation. In their own drawings, students in this one-trimester course investigate the relationship between music and art and the ways in which music stimulates creativity and dictates the mood and suggests styles and components of art, such as depth, line, mass, texture, and color.