Grade 8 Art
The visual arts include the traditional fine arts of drawing, painting, sculpting, printmaking, architecture, and photography, as well as crafts, industrial design, commercial art, performance art, and electronic arts. The visual arts curriculum is intended to help students develop their creativity, as well as the ability to communicate with other people through visual images. In learning to express themselves in visual ways, students will sharpen their powers of observation. In developing the ability to analyse and describe works of art from various historical periods and in different styles, they will also learn to understand and appreciate a wide variety of art works. Students in Grade 8 will continue to study the principles of design, and will produce works of art that demonstrate their proficiency in using a variety of tools, materials, and techniques. They will use their knowledge of the elements and principles of design in solving artistic problems and in analysing works of art. They will be expected to apply the knowledge and skills learned in their study of the arts as they analyse art works representing various styles and different historical periods.
* taken from the Ontario Ministry of Education Guidelines.
* taken from the Ontario Ministry of Education Guidelines.
Unit I Drawing and Painting
Drawing is a form of visual expression and is one of the major forms within the visual arts. There are a number of subcategories of drawing. Certain drawing methods or approaches, such as doodling, or the surrealist method of entoptic graphomania, in which dots are made at the sides of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots, may or may not be considered as part of "drawing" as a "fine art."
Assignments/Homework
Assignment 1: Graffiti Art
Assignment 2: Painting
Assignment 3: Electronic Art
Assignment 2: Painting
Assignment 3: Electronic Art
Unit I Lessons
Unit II Sculpting and Industrial Design
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and/or plastic material, stone, metal, glass, or wood. Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving, others are assembled, built together and fired, welded, molded, or cast. Sculptures are often painted. Because sculpture involves the use of materials that can be molded or modulated, it is considered one of the plastic arts. The majority of public art is sculpture. Many sculptures together in a garden setting may be referred to as a sculpture garden.
Assignments/Homework
Assignment 4: Industrial Design
Assignment 5: Sculpting - Object
Assignment 6: Sculpting - Person
Assignment 5: Sculpting - Object
Assignment 6: Sculpting - Person
Unit III Architecture and Photography
Technical drawing, also known as drafting, is the academic discipline of creating standardized technical drawings by architects, interior designers, drafters, design engineers, and related professionals. Standards and conventions for layout, line thickness, text size, symbols, view projections, descriptive geometry, dimensioning, and notation are used to create drawings that are ideally interpreted in only one way. A person who does drafting is known as a drafter. In some areas this person may be referred to as a drafting technician or draftsperson. This person creates technical drawings which are a form of specialized graphic communication.
Assignments/Homework
Assignment 7: Photography
Assignment 8: 2-D Commercial Blueprint
Assignment 9: 3-D Commercial Drafting
Assignment 8: 2-D Commercial Blueprint
Assignment 9: 3-D Commercial Drafting