Within the three transcendentals, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, the fine arts are situated primarily under Beauty. The fine arts are viewed as an essential human experience, as a key part of the liberal arts. At Great Hearts, we study fine arts to experience beauty; as a way to participate in beauty.

 In keeping with the developmental capacities of children, Studio Art in grades K-1 is structured experientially. Students will spend most of their time in class learning the requisite skills of art through working with various artistic media.
All students will learn the proper ways to use artists’ tools, to see as artists, and to participate readily and knowledgeably in the larger conversations in the world of art.

Kindergarten Curriculum Overview
Q1: Line and Shape

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
                                                  -- Paul Klee

Line is the first element of art being addressed in Kindergarten. The study of line will transform organically into the study of simple shapes.

Projects:
Oil pastel inspired by Matisse’s painting: Apples On a Table, Green Background
Drawings inspired by Picasso’s one-line animals pictures
Recreation of Joan Miro’s People and Dog in the Sun
Collages inspired by the cut-paper masterworks of Matisse

Q2: Value
Students will study how light, medium, and dark values create form and spatial depth.

Q3: Form and Texture
Students will learn about 3-dimensional form in painting and how the master artists, particularly the Impressionists, used texture in their paintings.
Students will also look at various forms of sculpture, which is an important tool for bringing the ideas of line and color into the physical world.

Q4: Color
Color allows the artist to affect the mood of the viewer. Students will learn the basics of color theory - primary and secondary colors - and how to effectively use these colors in their artwork.
1st Grade Curriculum Overview

Q1: Line

"Draw lines - draw a lot of lines.”
 --Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 
(This was his advice to a young Degas who had announced he wanted to become a painter)

Students will learn how master artists made use of line in a variety of imaginative styles and media. Many types of line will be studied including organic/natural line and geometric/mechanical line.

Projects:
Oil pastel drawings inspired by the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux
Drawings inspired by Picasso’s Cubist paintings
Oil pastel drawing inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe
Geometric watercolors inspired by the artwork of W. Kandinsky

Q2: Texture
Students will learn about 3-dimensional texture, actual and implied, in painting and how the master artists, particularly the Impressionists, used texture in their paintings. We will also look at the work of master illustrators, such as Eric Carle, to discover how these artists used texture to great effect in their books and illustrations.

Q3: Form and Space
Students will learn about how master artists created a sense of space in their paintings through the use of overlapping and positioning of shapes in the picture plane.
Students will also look at various forms of sculpture, which is an important tool for bringing the ideas of line and color into the physical world.

Q4: Color
Color allows the artist to affect the mood of the viewer. Students will continue to learn the basics of color theory, building upon the knowledge acquired in Kindergarten, and discover how to effectively use color in their artwork.

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