Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists, curators, and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
EQ: What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
EQ: What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
Skills Examples
- Identify and role-play various occupations that involve artists.
- Talk about how the skills and techniques of visual arts can be an enhancement to any career choice.
- Show how to carefully prepare and present artwork.
- Describe how the knowledge, skills, and work habits of visual arts are used in the world of work, including careers in visual arts.
- Talk about how a museum would present information about the Harlem Renaissance.
- Research different types of museums and the role that visual art plays in the restoration, care, and display of artifacts.
- Select three of one's own artworks for display and share the reasons for the selection.
Vocabulary
- Cultural context
- Formal & conceptual vocabulary
- Genre
- Linear perspective
- Preserve
- Principles of design
- Movement
- Emphasis
- Relief
- Vanishing point
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
