Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
EQ: How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
EQ: How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
Skills Examples
- Invent and depict a mythical creature after researching the mythology of another culture.
- Research and synthesize ideas and information to make a "scape" (such as cityscape, landscape, spacescape, dreamscape, or seascape.
- Recognize and distinguish between the works of various art movements or periods by comparing styles, techniques, and subjects.
- Research and synthesize various art movements or periods and utilize their attributes to create an original work of art in the same manner or style.
- Examine a work of art and describe what one sees and what one thinks is going on in the work and why.
- Individually or collaboratively create an artwork about a current world event.
- Utilize and record in a sketchbook/journal the steps of the art-making process: including brainstorming, preliminary sketching, planning, reflecting, refining, and elaborating, to create works of art.
- Identify how visual language communicates personal meaning.
- Describe ways artists contribute to society through their work.
- Investigate how Renaissance art reflected the power of the church and the growing influence of humanistic ideas.
- Utilize graffiti techniques to draw letters of names.
- Demonstrate a use of a creative process, focus on gathering and synthesizing information from diverse sources to create visual works of art.
- Explore the relationship between the visual arts and other content areas to create works of art that communicate specific ideas.
- Examine visual works of art and describe the specific attributes that reflect the influences of particular artists, styles, cultures, or times.
Vocabulary
- Artistic ideas and work
- Formal and conceptual vocabulary
- Innovation
- Investigation
- Two-dimensional
- Three-dimensional
- Experimentation
- Conservation
- Craftsmanship
- Linear perspective
- Environmental responsibility
- Prior knowledge
- Museum
- Gallery
- Curator
- Digital
- Horizon Line
- Brainstorming
- Research
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
