Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
EQ: How do life experiences the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
EQ: How do life experiences the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Skills Examples
- Identify the basic elements of art in a work of art through group discussion.
- Discuss how people create works of art to communicate ideas and serve different purposes.
- Investigate how a select work of art was created.
- Identify elements of art and principles of design in their own artwork and in those of others using art vocabulary.
- Connect the stories in works of art to the cultures they represent.
- Compare Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa with Johannes Vermeer's The Girl with the Pearl Earring to identify different uses of the elements of art and principles of design.
- Compare images that represent the same subject matter.
- Connect visual stories with literary stories.
- Share their art-making processes with peers
- Classify/ group art work by portraits, landscapes and still life.
Vocabulary
- Complementary colors
- Contrast
- Curator
- Elements of Art
- Texture
- Landscapes
- Portrait
- Positive/ negative space and shape
- Principles of design
- Repetition
- Variety
- Secondary colors
- Still life
- Technique
- Venue
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
