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Goshen High School offers the following studio courses:

Studio Art - The course involves the students experiencing a variety of mediums through historical reference, self expression, and exploration of new ideas. We will paint, draw, collage, build, construct, reflect, critique, sculpt, admire, learn and have fun. All you have to do is participate. This course is a requirement in order to advance into the other electives offered in the field of the visual arts. It is also a graduation requirement to take either a studio art or a music credit.

Drawing and Painting - This course involves further exploration into the depths of specifically drawing and painting. Students will participate in the usage of many mediums on the two dimensional surface. Techniques will be taught on these new and different mediums. Students will be encouraged to be creative as possible. We are always searching for new ideas. Do you have any? Well bring them to life here in drawing and painting. You will be surprised at what you thought you could never do, you WILL do.

The Art that you will create in this course will ultimately result in your own perceptions based upon your own values and experience.

These are just a few examples of the many thousands of artists who did the same:

The Studio Art Course will begin with the basics:

1.The elements of art:

a. Space d. form

b.light e. line

c. color f. texture

2. These Elements are used and arranged to any or all of the following principles of design:

a. rythm d. emphasis

b. balance e. variety

c. harmony f. unity

These are the tools that we will use as our guideline through our creations. These combined with our personal experiences and emotions will create an abundance of great projects.

In addition to the recognizable elements and the ways these seem to have been arranged, a work of art has identifiable qualities or characteristics that tend to group and label as style:

Classicism - the style of ancient Greece and Rome characterized by simplicity, formality and balance

Romanticism - a movement in art characterized by dramatic and emotional statements through use of historic, exotic or literary subject matter. A spirit of revolution is often evident in the works created.

REalism - subjects were painted from everyday life in a naturalistic matter. Objects, scenes, animals, and human figures were depicted as they actually appear in nature.

Impressionism - was concerned with the surface play of light on nature and hidden effects of color within shadow areas. The artists the brilliancy of color when dots of strokes of color were placed next to each other on the canvas so that the eye blends the color instead of the colors being mixed on the palette.

FFauvism - a 20th century movement that rejected the use of natural colors in painting reality. Their "wild" use of color to convey emotion gave them the name of Fauves or "Wild Beasts"

Expressionism - an art in which the intensity of the artist's inner emotions and ideas overrides the tradition of portraying actual appearances resulting in distortions of line, shape, and color