Advanced Placement Studio Art

Breadth

Concentration

Quality

What is the AP Art exam?

You will create and submit 24 artworks

at the beginning of May.

You will find out your grade in July.

24 artworks, submitted electronically:

12 Breadth

12 Concentration

From these 24 artworks, you will choose 5 to submit physically to the College Board.

Breadth

Your first semester of Advanced

Placement Studio Art will be spent on

your Breadth portfolio entry.

This consists of twelve artworks which display your talent in a variety of styles, techniques, media, and subject matter.

Quality

After all 24 artworks are created, you will choose five to physically submit to the

College Board.

These five artworks must display excellent attention to detail, composition, style, and

use of media.

Concentration

Your second semester of Advanced

Placement Studio Art will be spent on

your Concentration portfolio entry.

This consists of twelve artworks with one

OVER-ARCHING THEME.

This theme is a concept of your choice.

What theme will you choose?

Concentration ideas

• Close up of insects in unusual place • Anthropomorphic appliances• Family celebrations gone wrong • Figures at rest from an unusal

perspective • Mechanical Dreamscapes • Objects emerging from deep shadow• People morphing into animals• People doing chores they dislike• Futuristic furniture

• Exploration of textures on decaying leaves

• Cropped portraits of classmates• Twister Portraits • Junkyard Still Life • Crime and Punishment • Seven Deadly Sins

Concentration ideas

• Dance images • The struggle to find oneself • Home in its coziest• Car Interiors • Childhood memories and objects • Toys/Games • Visions of the future of a school• Evolution of an item as it decomposes

Concentration ideas

• Foreshortened Figures or Objects • Things that make me cringe • Historical Events in a new light• Reflections of Images Within • Emotional Exploration • Things that come in pairs • “The Attic” childhood experience • Surreal Musical Instruments

Concentration ideas

Media

You will choose your medium or media at a later date.

For now, you need to choose an OVER-ARCHING THEME

for you to pursue as your Concentration Idea.

Here are some artist concentrations to think about.

Lyubov Sergeevna

Popova

Concentration Idea:Cubist Portraits

ZHU YIYONG

Concentration idea:

Closeups of children playing cat’s cradle

Yuri Kudryavtsev-Dobrohotov Concentration

Idea: Cubist

Russian

Landscape

Daniel Merriam

Concentration idea:

watercolor fantasy anthropomorphic buildings.

Rob Gonsalves

Concentration idea:

buildings morphing into other objects

Charles Burchfield

Concentration idea:

Effects of rain on landscapes in neutral and dull colors

George Andreas

Concentration

idea:

Negative

states

of emotion in abstract

• AP Studio Art Calendar for Digital and Physical Portfolio Submission• Duedates• 9/1 Breadth 1• 9/8 Breadth 2• 9/15 First Idea Proposal for your Concentration• 9/22 Breadth 3• 9/29 Second Idea Proposal for your Concentration, refined• 10/6 Breadth 4• 10/13 Breadth 5• 10/20 Breadth 6• 10/27 Final Idea Proposal for your Concentration with description of all twelve images• 11/3 Breadth 7• 11/10 Breadth 8 • 11/17 Breadth 9 • 11/24 Concentration 1-6 sketches with descriptions• 12/1 Breadth 10, Art show design idea• 12/8 Breadth 11• 12/15 Breadth 12, Final Exam/Art Show Display due December 16!• 1/5 Concentration 7-12 sketches with descriptions, Art Show is January 6, 3-7pm!

in the Media Center

• 1/12 Concentration 1 is due today!