Ontario Grade 12 AEA4O Exploring and Creating in the Arts (Grade 12, Open)
Chapters: 3
1. A. Creating and Presenting
A1 The Creative Process · A2 Elements and Principles · A3 Tools, Techniques, and Technologies · A4 Presentation and Promotion
- Elements of Art and Principles of Design – The elements of art are the building blocks an artist uses: line, shape, form, colour, value, texture and space (many teachers also add the point). The principles of design are the rules for arranging those blocks: balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm and pattern, proportion and scale, and unity with variety. Knowing both helps you make art on purpose and talk about any artwork clearly.
2. B. Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing
B1 The Critical Analysis Process · B2 The Function of the Arts in Society · B3 The Arts and Personal Development · B4 Connections Beyond the Classroom
- Elements of Art and Principles of Design – The elements of art are the building blocks an artist uses: line, shape, form, colour, value, texture and space (many teachers also add the point). The principles of design are the rules for arranging those blocks: balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm and pattern, proportion and scale, and unity with variety. Knowing both helps you make art on purpose and talk about any artwork clearly.
- Arts Education: Art Forms, Creating and Running an Art Project – Arts education at school covers several domains: visual arts, music, dance, theatre, cinema and audiovisual art, circus arts and art history. In each one you do three things: practise and create (making), meet and look at art by professionals (receiving), and think and talk about it (reflecting). An art project follows a cycle: an idea or brief, research, experiments, choosing and making, sharing with an audience, and reflecting, with notes or a portfolio kept all the way. Art forms often mix: music with dance, film with theatre. Visiting a museum, concert or theatre and talking with artists builds your own taste and understanding.
3. C. Foundations
C1 Terminology · C2 Contexts and Influences · C3 Conventions and Responsible Practices
- Arts Education: Art Forms, Creating and Running an Art Project – Arts education at school covers several domains: visual arts, music, dance, theatre, cinema and audiovisual art, circus arts and art history. In each one you do three things: practise and create (making), meet and look at art by professionals (receiving), and think and talk about it (reflecting). An art project follows a cycle: an idea or brief, research, experiments, choosing and making, sharing with an audience, and reflecting, with notes or a portfolio kept all the way. Art forms often mix: music with dance, film with theatre. Visiting a museum, concert or theatre and talking with artists builds your own taste and understanding.
- Anthropology and Culture – Anthropology is the study of human beings as a whole: our bodies, our past, our languages and our ways of life. Culture is the shared, learned way of life of a group: what people make, do, say and believe. Culture is learned, shared, symbolic, connected and always changing. Anthropologists study it by living with people (participant observation) and try to understand each culture on its own terms (cultural relativism) instead of judging it by their own (ethnocentrism).
- Elements of Art and Principles of Design – The elements of art are the building blocks an artist uses: line, shape, form, colour, value, texture and space (many teachers also add the point). The principles of design are the rules for arranging those blocks: balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm and pattern, proportion and scale, and unity with variety. Knowing both helps you make art on purpose and talk about any artwork clearly.