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?

Close up of insects in unusual place Anthropomorphic appliances 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

Concentration ideas 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

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 Lyubov Sergeevna Popova

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!