Date post: | 17-Jan-2016 |
Category: |
Documents |
Upload: | jessica-randall |
View: | 215 times |
Download: | 0 times |
Advanced Placement Studio Art
Breadth
Concentration
Quality
What is the AP Art exam?
You will create and submit 24 artworks
at the beginning of May.
You will find out your grade in July.
24 artworks, submitted electronically:
12 Breadth
12 Concentration
From these 24 artworks, you will choose 5 to submit physically to the College Board.
Breadth
Your first semester of Advanced
Placement Studio Art will be spent on
your Breadth portfolio entry.
This consists of twelve artworks which display your talent in a variety of styles, techniques, media, and subject matter.
Quality
After all 24 artworks are created, you will choose five to physically submit to the
College Board.
These five artworks must display excellent attention to detail, composition, style, and
use of media.
Concentration
Your second semester of Advanced
Placement Studio Art will be spent on
your Concentration portfolio entry.
This consists of twelve artworks with one
OVER-ARCHING THEME.
This theme is a concept of your choice.
What theme will you choose?
Concentration ideas
• Close up of insects in unusual place • Anthropomorphic appliances• Family celebrations gone wrong • Figures at rest from an unusal
perspective • Mechanical Dreamscapes • Objects emerging from deep shadow• People morphing into animals• People doing chores they dislike• Futuristic furniture
• Exploration of textures on decaying leaves
• Cropped portraits of classmates• Twister Portraits • Junkyard Still Life • Crime and Punishment • Seven Deadly Sins
Concentration ideas
• Dance images • The struggle to find oneself • Home in its coziest• Car Interiors • Childhood memories and objects • Toys/Games • Visions of the future of a school• Evolution of an item as it decomposes
Concentration ideas
• Foreshortened Figures or Objects • Things that make me cringe • Historical Events in a new light• Reflections of Images Within • Emotional Exploration • Things that come in pairs • “The Attic” childhood experience • Surreal Musical Instruments
Concentration ideas
Media
You will choose your medium or media at a later date.
For now, you need to choose an OVER-ARCHING THEME
for you to pursue as your Concentration Idea.
Here are some artist concentrations to think about.
Lyubov Sergeevna
Popova
Concentration Idea:Cubist Portraits
ZHU YIYONG
Concentration idea:
Closeups of children playing cat’s cradle
Yuri Kudryavtsev-Dobrohotov Concentration
Idea: Cubist
Russian
Landscape
Daniel Merriam
Concentration idea:
watercolor fantasy anthropomorphic buildings.
Rob Gonsalves
Concentration idea:
buildings morphing into other objects
Charles Burchfield
Concentration idea:
Effects of rain on landscapes in neutral and dull colors
George Andreas
Concentration
idea:
Negative
states
of emotion in abstract
• AP Studio Art Calendar for Digital and Physical Portfolio Submission• Duedates• 9/1 Breadth 1• 9/8 Breadth 2• 9/15 First Idea Proposal for your Concentration• 9/22 Breadth 3• 9/29 Second Idea Proposal for your Concentration, refined• 10/6 Breadth 4• 10/13 Breadth 5• 10/20 Breadth 6• 10/27 Final Idea Proposal for your Concentration with description of all twelve images• 11/3 Breadth 7• 11/10 Breadth 8 • 11/17 Breadth 9 • 11/24 Concentration 1-6 sketches with descriptions• 12/1 Breadth 10, Art show design idea• 12/8 Breadth 11• 12/15 Breadth 12, Final Exam/Art Show Display due December 16!• 1/5 Concentration 7-12 sketches with descriptions, Art Show is January 6, 3-7pm!
in the Media Center
• 1/12 Concentration 1 is due today!