Fine arts
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Grade levels 5-7, 8-10 (elective), S1-S4 (profile, elective) Subject colleagues Flg, Hab, Hlt, Ile, Kre, Nat Subject rooms 3 art rooms with a SMARTBoard
Betty Edwards wrote in her book “Guaranteed to Learn to Draw” that one needs elementary visual abilities, i.e. the ability to perceive edge lines, spatial forms, size relationships, light and shadow, and the overall image in order to be able to draw. (cf. Betty Edwards: 16) Later she wrote that one can/should use “[...] drawing as a ‘tool for thinking’.” (Ib.) The ability to see is one of the hardest to teach; the ability to draw is strongly linked to the ability to think.
There is always talk about innovation, creativity and imagination. Drawing and art education offer the possibility to train students’ perception. The subject of Art has the special task of training students who live in a world where images gain an ever more important place.
According to the new educational plan, which goes into a three-year field test starting 01.08.2024 and is used in all grades from class 5 onward, art education should “[...], fostering joy and experience in both individual and cooperative processes of experimenting, shaping and reflecting [...], as well as expression and creative imagination and creativity at [...].” (Curriculum, p. 4) Much more could be listed here, but as the department, we want to draw attention to what is important to us with regard to the subject Visual Arts.
In our teaching we refer to the curriculum, which sets various thematic focus areas. In doing so, aesthetically research is conducted on the reference fields of free art, architecture and everyday culture.
From painting to theory to time-based media, students may approach specific problem areas using various materials and test them aesthetically, exploring them. In the process, students learn to handle a wide range of materials, develop their own problems, and acquire craft procedures and skills in the work process. Thus the practically acquired abilities and skills are underpinned by theoretical knowledge. The artistic works are subsequently reflected in writing or orally, allowing students to formulate and reflect on problems.
Since we cannot describe everything we do here, we have uploaded some projects by the students for interested parties on our homepage under the menu item “Aesthetic Subjects – Visual Arts.” We hope you will like the projects.
(Carolin Kreismer – Head of Visual Arts)
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