Visual and Performing Arts Framework-Complete - Free Downloads (CA Dept of Education)

dents with a variety of opportunities to meet the content standards and help
students prepare portfolios of their work for personal use, for use in applying to
postsecondary institutions, or for career presentations and exhibitions. The fol-
lowing unit of study is an example of how to maintain the integrity of studio
classes by focusing on skill development while providing a comprehensive ap-
proach to art education. Many high school studio art classes enroll students at
the proficient and advanced levels in one class and provide for differentiated
opportunities based on experience.
This unit of study for beginning and advanced students focuses on creating a
series of original drawings and paintings reflecting contemporary California

Chapter 4

Guidance

for Visual and

Performing Arts

Programs

Visual Arts

artists and their works of art.

PROFICIENT LEVEL

First year of instruction

Students research Wayne Thiebaud,

a contemporary California artist.

The students study the artist’s works

of art and the ways in which they

reflect contemporary culture.

Students analyze the artist’s artwork

according to composition and

principles of design.

Students complete a series of still-life

drawings in their sketchbooks,

reflecting Thiebaud’s food themes

and artifacts of the abundance of the

American culture, particularly their

own.

ADVANCED LEVEL

Two or more years of

additional instruction

Students research Richard

Diebenkorn, a contemporary Cali-

fornia artist, and discuss ways in

which his landscapes reflect, play a

role in, and influence contemporary

culture. Students visit local museums

and galleries displaying the artist’s

works, view videos, and use the

Internet to see the artist’s landscapes.

Students analyze the artist’s works

according to composition, the use of

elements of art and principles of

design, the art media selected, and

the effect of the media selection on

the artist’s style.

Students plan and complete a series

of abstract landscape paintings of a

selected landscape site, incorporating

Diebenkorn’s diverse use of media

and abstraction.