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
- Compare lines on a seashell to lines made by fence posts.
- Discuss how artists make choices that communicate ideas in works of art.
- Discuss how artists use familiar symbols to express and create artwork.
- Discuss how the artistic process can lead to "happy accidents" discovering something new.
- Use basic self-assessment strategies to improve their artworks.
- Discuss the difference between assessing the quality of an artwork and personal preference for the work.
- Talk about color qualities and composition in Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist.
- Discuss and recognize how artists use different materials and processes to create art.
- Recognize patterns and textures that can be found in many places in and around the school and community.
- Use statements that include artistic terminology such as, "I know the texture of the cat is soft from the pencil marks I see."
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 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
