McKay High School 2017-2018 Drawing and Painting Syllabus

DRAWING X PAINTING
COURSE SYLLABUS
MR. MCQUILLING-BARRON
SCHOOL YEAR- FALL 2017 SPRING 2018

Course Overview

This course is designed to provide a broad overview of drawing x painting. A variety of methods, materials and techniques will be introduced to encourage exploration, experimentation and development of skill and knowledge. The content for this class will be derived from the four components below which I believe will ensure a well-rounded art education experience.

• Aesthetics- Learning to understand the nature, beauty, experience, meaning and value of art

• Art History- Acquiring knowledge about the contributions artists and art make to society and culture, acknowledging the contributions of other cultures.

• Art Criticism- Learning how to respond to art, learning how to make judgments about the properties and qualities in visual form. Becoming familiar with using and understanding the Elements and Principles of Design

• Art Production- Making and creating art!

Painting X Drawing is taught in three sections.

• Drawing X Painting 1- Students will build the fundamental skills in observational drawing and
painting. This section will emphasize the use of the elements in accordance to the principles to
create strong work.

• Drawing X Painting 2- Students will continue to focus on observational painting and drawing while
introducing concepts of abstraction and artistic voice. This course will build on basic painting
methods, procedures and color theory.

• Advanced Drawing X Painting - This course is designed to prepare a portfolio quality body of work
in a variety of painting and drawing media. Lessons include observational drawing/painting,
abstraction, issues in contemporary art, student voice and conceptual development.

Assessments / Grading for each marking period

Projects = 100 points
For each class project you will be given a handout describing the assignment, objectives and criteria of the lesson. You will be graded on creativity, level of effort, and craftsmanship (**see sample rubric)

Exams = 40-50 points
Your knowledge of the subject matter, media techniques and vocabulary will be assessed through one
exam after the completion of each project lesson.

In class assignments = 20-40 points
Sketches, notebooks and reflection sheets will be graded and checked as “in class” assignments

Community Collaboration & Discussion (Daily Points) = 20-40 points
This grade will be based on your group critiques, in class work habits, class discussion clarification
and clean up.

*Notebook Folders
You will be responsible for keeping all notes, handouts, sketches and exams. This folder will be kept in
class, distributed and collected during class time.

Studio Expectations

• Listen to and follow directions.
• Raise your hand to contribute.
• Be nice.
Student Support
• Reminder/ Warning
• Mindfulness Break
• Extended Mindfulness Break

Daily Points

4 Points available every day:

• 1 point for entering class quietly.

• 1 point for listening attentively.

• 1 point for good effort.

• 1 point for cleaning your space and leaving quietly.

PLEASE BE READY.

• Please come into the studio ready for creative action.

• Take folders and sketchbooks out upon entering the room.

• Please do your best to focus on your work with minimal talking/distractions.

Notes/ Passes

• Please request my written permission to miss class when involved in any activity outside this class

• 10/10 rule for Hall pass. Please be mindful and considerate of your pass usage. Sign the Pass out
in the Marble Composition book. This is for school and student safety purposes.
Absences

• Please be responsible for getting any work, assignments or information that you missed during
your absence

• Sports/Club participants- I ask that you inform me ahead of time of games, practices or events
that involve you missing class.

Additional studio time to work on projects: see white board for availability/times.

I’m looking forward to getting to know you and working with you this year!

Sincerely,
Mr. McQuilling-Barron


Parent/Guardian X ____________________________________________


Student X ___________________________________________________

Ai Wei Wei on Artsy

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Creativity Vs. Technique

“You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter...having lost the song, we pursue the singer. We learn from the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you will invent your own technique, you won't have to study elocution or style. When you have, you see, and the very seeing of beauty is an art.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

Farewell Transmission

 The end of the school year always makes me a bit sentimental, maybe it's the cleaning of the studio or going through the old projects from earlier in the year.  Whatever it may be it's here again; and this year it's even more noticeable because I will be moving on to another chapter in my own life as well.

  This year we covered the general foundations of painting and drawing.  We learned technique, theory and a dash of art history.  In addition to these basics we attempted to address several other goals that I would like to remind you of here in hopes that these ideas will be carried with you over the course of the next few years and hopefully your life.

-Acknowledge and surpass your fears. Learn to hear and see fear as it whispers to you in your most rational voice and it will fall away like the skin off of a snake.

-Play. Please remember that the your true calling as an artist is to play. Playing means letting go of expectation and paying attention to what you are actually seeing in your work so you can respond to it accordingly.

-Good things take time.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

-You can accomplish whatever you set your mind to.  No goal is too large or out of reach as long as you take it one step at a time.

  Wherever you go or whatever you choose to do, I wish you all the best of luck.  Thank you for all that  you have taught me and for the wonderful, wild, and hilarious memories.  It has been an honor and a privilege to teach such gifted young people as yourselves.  So it's with a heart full of gratitude a touch of sadness that I say to you...  See you later. <3 McQuilling

Freshmen X Cubism

Via Wikipedia

"Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.
Historians have sought to analyze the history of cubism in terms of phases. In one scheme, a first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In a second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity. English art historian Douglas Cooper proposed another scheme, describing three phases of Cubism in his seminal book, The Cubist Epoch. According to Cooper there was "Early Cubism", (from 1906 to 1908) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque; the second phase being called "High Cubism", (from 1909 to 1914) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent; and finally Cooper referred to "Late Cubism" (from 1914 to 1921) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement.[2]"

"Analytic Cubism: The invention of Cubism was a joint effort between Pablo Picasso and Braque, then residents of Montmartre, Paris. These artists were the movement's main innovators. A later active participant was Juan Gris. After meeting in 1907 Braque and Picasso in particular began working on the development of Cubism. Picasso was initially the force and influence that persuaded Braque by 1908 to move away from Fauvism. The two artists began working closely together in late 1908–early 1909 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The movement spread quickly throughout Paris and Europe.
French art critic Louis Vauxcelles first used the term "cubism", or "bizarre cubiques", in 1908 after seeing a picture by Braque. He described it as "full of little cubes", after which the term quickly gained wide use although the two creators did not initially adopt it. Art historian Ernst Gombrich described cubism as "the most radical attempt to stamp out ambiguity and to enforce one reading of the picture—that of a man-made construction, a coloured canvas."[4]

Cubism was taken up by many artists in Montparnasse and promoted by art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, becoming popular so quickly that by 1911 critics were referring to a "cubist school" of artists.[5] However, many of the artists who thought of themselves as cubists went in directions quite different from Braque and Picasso. The Puteaux Group or Section d'Or was a significant offshoot of the Cubist movement; it included Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, his brothers Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon, and Fernand Léger, and Francis Picabia. Other important artists associated with cubism include: Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger,[6] Marie Laurencin, Max Weber, Diego Rivera, Marie Vorobieff, Louis Marcoussis, Jeanne Rij-Rousseau, Roger de La Fresnaye, Henri Le Fauconnier, Alexander Archipenko, František Kupka, Amédée Ozenfant, Jean Marchand, Léopold Survage, Patrick Henry Bruce among others. Section d'Or is basically just another name for many of the artists associated with cubism and orphism (or "Orphic Cubism"). Purism was an artistic offshoot of Cubism that developed after World War I. Leading proponents of Purism include Le Corbusier, Amédée Ozenfant, and Fernand Léger.

Cubism and modern European art was introduced into the United States at the now legendary 1913 Armory Show in New York City, which then traveled to Chicago. In the Armory show Jacques Villon exhibited seven important and large drypoints, his brother Marcel Duchamp shocked the American public with his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) and Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Roger de La Fresnaye, Marie Laurencin, Albert Gleizes, and other cubist painters contributed examples of their cubist works. Braque and Picasso themselves went through several distinct phases before 1920, and some of these works had been seen in New York prior to the Armory Show, at Alfred Stieglitz's "291" gallery. Czech artists who realized the epochal significance of cubism of Picasso and Braque attempted to extract its components for their own work in all branches of artistic creativity—especially painting and architecture. This developed into Czech Cubism which was an avant-garde art movement of Czech proponents of cubism active mostly in Prague from 1910 to 1914."

Art Feast 2013

Capa Cares Club

Wednesday afternoon Capa Cares Club members participated in a yard clean up to get the school grounds ready for the eagerly anticipated Spring weather.  Great work folks! Capa Cares Club meets Monday after school @ 3:00 in studio 401.