Visual Arts
Visual arts is a fun-making, skill-building program based on art history from cave painting to today. It teaches students how to use art in their everyday lives. At each grade level students are taught a sequential part of the western art history timeline and contemporary art from around the world.
Work in the visual arts classroom is cumulative and by the time a student graduates from 8th grade he or she will be prepared for any high school art elective. The Swain School experience of art making leads students to a deeper understanding of themselves and their world through hands-on practice.
Preschool
- Self-expression
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving
- Drawing
- Painting
- Modeling
- Identifying colors and shapes
- Exploring colors and shapes
- Developing fine and gross motor skills
Prekindergarten
- Self-expression
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving
- Drawing
- Painting
- Modeling
- Identifying colors and shapes
- Exploring colors and shapes
- Devolving fine and gross motor skills
Kindergarten
- Art history
- Drawing from observation
- Watercolor painting
- Leonardo Da Vinci: “Mona Lisa” portrait
- Thanksgiving unit
- Sculpture
- Collage
- Claude Monet
- Landscape: “Waterlillies”; Piet Mondrian
- Primary colors, lines, shapes, textures
- Real paint texture
- Vincent Van Gogh: “Sunflowers”
- Color wheel
- Rembrandt
- Light and dark
- Art and artists
Grade 1
- Portrait painting
- Clay and glaze
- Line, pictographs, petroglyphs
- Origami and sculpture
- Sumi-e
- Chinese painting
- Signature stamp
- Positive and negative space
- Art material care and preparation
Grade 2
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Cartouche
- Clay-coil
- Clay sculpture
- Origami
- Egyptian Stela printing
- Art criticism
- Canopic jars
- Sculpture and painting
- Egyptian drawing and painting
- Art material care and preparation
Grade 3
- Clay slab
- Glaze and glazing
- Fantasy and dream
- Imagination
- Still life drawing
- Primary and secondary color mixing
- Ancient Greek art
- Symmetry
- Illustration and collage
- Art material care and preparation
Grade 4
- Mosaic
- Still life
- Dubuffet
- Motif
- Landscapes
- Care and preparation of art materials
Grade 5
- Letter Illumination
- Henna hands
- Castles and cathedrals
- Stained glass
- Still life drawing
- Gargoyles
- Recycled sculpture
- Heraldry
- Care and preparation of art materials
Grade 6
- Perspective
- Renaissance
- Michelangelo and Da Vinci
- Fresco
- Still life drawing
- Printmaking - block drawing
- Collage
- Foreshortening
- Clay pinch pots
- Glazing
- Self-portrait
- Painting and emotion
- Subtractive sculpture
- Care and prep of art materials
Grade 7
- Design from nature
- Clay-coiling/glazing
- Watercolor
- Pencil drawing
- Color mixing
- Right side brain drawing
- 3-D assemblage
- Baroque and Rococo Neoclassical art
- Care and prep of art materials
Grade 8
- Papier Mache
- Impressionism
- Post Impressionism
- Surrealism and Cubism
- Modern and contemporary art
- Acrylic painting
- Independent art study
- Care and prep of art materials
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