Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects, artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
EQ: How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
EQ: How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Skills Examples
- Take part in the setup of a theme-specific display.
- Glue artwork on larger paper or mat board to create a finished look.
- Create a name card for artwork.
- Prepare artwork for final display by selecting from pre-made supplies, such as different colors of paper or matting that have been cut to size and different choices of labels that have been printed.
- Look at examples of public sculptures, murals, and buildings from the surrounding community and discuss the benefits of art to the people who live there.
- Create a community art map showing the placement of publicly displayed artwork in one's own community.
Vocabulary
- Principles of design
- Balance
- Brainstorming
- Composition
- Concepts
- Characteristic
- Elements of art
- Space
- Value
- Expressive properties
- Foreground
- Middle ground
- Neutral colors
- Resist
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
