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Fine Arts
The Fine Arts Department includes a variety of courses from which the students may choose. The art major courses are open to all students. Any student applying for Art I must submit a portfolio to the Art Teacher. The music major courses are open to all students. No previous experience is necessary. The instruments taught are listed in the catalogue under Music. Students taking Instrumental Music are required to perform in the Concert Band for the entire school year. Students who are not in the Art or Music courses are rostered for Related Arts as freshman. Chorus is taught once a week after school. A full description is given under the Music area.
The Fine Arts Department of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia created a secondary education mission statement; “The arts are essential to the human spirit. They inspire, they elevate, and they bring out the potential to create. They are a binding force in the world separated by distrust and prejudice. We firmly believe that every child has a right to an arts education be it through music, visual art, theatre, or dance. Through the arts, students can experience that which is basic to their humanity: the ability to create, to express, and to appreciate the beauty of God’s creation, the masterpiece of which is themselves.” The Related Arts course prepares the students to develop an awareness and understanding of the arts that reflects the above mission statement.
* Art III and Art Portfolio Classes will introduce students to the computer as a medium to create art. Students will use Macintosh computers and Adobe software to create artwork, illustrations, and visual designs. Students will learn the basic elements of graphic design.
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| Art I, 711 |
Gr: 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Trk: 2 |
Cr: 1 |
This course covers the element of art - line, shape, color, texture, form, and value. The course is recommended for beginners who have a desire and interest to learn the fundamentals of drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Art history is incorporated rather than taught separately.
Prerequisite: Submission of an art portfolio to the teacher.
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| Art II, 721 |
Gr: 10, 11, 12 |
Trk: 2 |
Cr: 1 |
This course will focus on the principles of art-rythym, movement, balance, proportion, variety, emphasis, and unity in two and three dimensional works of art. Students begin to solve problems using the technique and materials used in Art I.
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| Art III*, 731 |
Gr: 11, 12 |
Trk: 1 |
Cr: 1 |
This course is intended for those who have completed three years of art. It is an informal studio course where students are encouraged to do independent work, and to specialize in developing their own particular styles. Students will explore the human figure, portraiture, cityscapes, and imaginative and experimental drawing using a variety of techniques.
*Art 3 will introduce students to the computer as a medium to create art. Students will use Macintosh computers and Adobe software to create art work, illustrations, and visual designs. Students will learn the basic elements of graphic design.
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| Art Portfolio*, 751 |
Gr: 12 |
Trk: 1 |
Cr: 1 |
This course is offered to students who intend to go on for a higher education in art. It provides the time and facilities for portfolio preparation and instruction geared to analysis and evaluation of the visual arts. Field trips to local museums, galleries, and art colleges will be scheduled.
*Art Portfolio will introduce students to the computer as a medium to create art. Students will use Macintosh computers and Adobe software to create art work, illustrations, and visual designs. Students will learn the basic elements of graphic design.
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| Museum Art**, |
Gr: 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Trk: 1 |
Cr: 1 |
This studio art course is funded by the McShain Charities, Inc., and held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Two regular fifteen week semesters are offered. Classes are structured in a multi-tiered system. The curriculum is based on the fundamental skills of drawing for nature: skeletal structure and material objects from the Academy's Nature Laboratory, the Academy's unique collection of Greco-Roman and Renaissance antique vases, and the live portrait model. The conceptual skills of composition, anatomy, and perspective will also be addressed, Students are selected by the Fine Arts chairperson.
** An after-school program
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| Music I, 712 |
Gr: 9, 10, 11 |
Trk: 2 |
Cr: 1 |
($100.00 fee per year)
Music I introduces the beginning music students to an instrument of their choosing and presents the basic skills, techniques, and music theory needed to succeed. All students will perform in the Annual Spring Concert.
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| Music II, 722 |
Gr: 9-12 |
Trk: 2 |
Cr: 1 |
($100.00 fee per year)
Music II builds upon the basic skills, theory, and techniques learned in Music I. Music throey, presented through the medium of music, develops the recognition of tonality, new and complex rhythms, articulation, expression, dynamics, music styles and literature.
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| Music III, 732 |
Gr: 10, 11, 12 |
Trk: 1 |
Cr: 1 |
Music III builds upon the basic skills, theory, and techniques learned in Music I. Music throey, presented through the medium of music, develops the recognition of tonality, new and complex rhythms, articulation, expression, dynamics, music styles and literature.
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| Related Arts, 752 |
Gr: 9 |
Trk: 2 |
Cr: 1/2 |
This course includes the study of the major works of art, music, architecture, film, dance, and technology. The course stresses what each of these topics have in common and what is unique to each. This course is designed to introduce the 9th graders to the world of art through the study of master artists and theis works, the history of art and its development, the language of music and its application to a musical instrument, and the visual arts including drawing with emhasis on rules for drawing perspective. The goal of this course is to bring the student to an appreciation of the arts and to an increased understanding of the place of the arts in the world.
N. B. The requirement for related Arts is waived for any student enrolled in the school's Music or Studio Art Program.
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