FTCE Art K-12 study materials
FTCE Art K-12 study resources

FTCE Art K-12 cheat sheet

FTCE Art K-12 · Keep the key ideas within reach.

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Integrated humanities foundations: FTCE Art K-12

  • Doric/Ionic/Corinthian orders must be described by capital, base and frieze, not just by 'style'.

  • Aufgabe, Format, Medien und Adressat zuerst systematisch klären

  • Beschreiben, analysieren und interpretieren strikt trennen

  • Early Christian basilica = atrium, narthex, nave, aisles, apse, transept, timber roof.

  • Brunelleschi dome 1420-1436: double shell, herringbone brick, no centring.

  • Support grammage, sizing and acidity each affect a different behaviour: buckling, absorbency, ageing.

  • Graphite grades describe hardness, not darkness alone; pressure and lead angle change the mark.

  • Watercolour reserves paper for white; gouache is opaque and re-wettable.

  • One focal point, then hierarchy by size, weight, value and position.

  • Each family is defined by where the ink sits: raised, incised, on a plane, or through a stencil.

  • Work through formal elements, then composition, then meaning, linking each step.

  • Convert the brief into testable success criteria before starting.

  • Elementos: punto, línea, plano/forma, volumen, textura y color; principios: jerarquía, equilibrio, ritmo, proporción, escala, contraste, unidad.

  • Primarios de la luz RGB (aditiva, suma = blanco) frente a CMY/CMYK (sustractiva, pigmento).

  • ISO 216: A 0 = 1 m² (841 × 1189 mm), relación 1:√2; A 4 = 210 × 297 mm.

  • Anatomía: asta, remate, contraforma, altura de la x, ascendente, descendente, línea base.

  • Logotipo = solo texto; isotipo = solo símbolo; imagotipo = separables; isologo = fusionados.

  • Condicionantes: función, técnica, economía, ergonomía, normativa y sostenibilidad.

  • UX = investigación, arquitectura y flujos; UI = capa visual y componentes.

  • Bauhaus: Weimar 1919, Dessau 1925, cierre 1933; Gropius, Itten, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Bayer, Breuer.

  • Fases: briefing, análisis, definición del problema, ideación, selección, prototipado, verificación y producción.

  • Connect a task with an observable artistic purpose.

  • Use experiments and revision as evidence of decision-making.

  • Support interpretation with actual formal and contextual evidence.