Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Skills Examples
- Demonstrate how to create a think -map to assist with creative blocks.
- Discuss collaboratively various ideas and innovations that can overcome the creative block and develop ideas.
- Look at examples of work by student and/artists to gain inspiration.
- Develop and apply critical thinking skills to create a work of art that communicates an identified goal.
- Work alone or collaboratively to design a travel poster.
- Demonstrate perseverance in order to create high quality works of art.
- Plan, sketch and revise in the process of creating a work of art.
- Demonstrate various techniques in watercolor painting such as wet-on-wet, dry brush, wet-on-dry, and flat wash.
- Examine and describe the use and misuse of the practice of appropriating copyrighted artworks and designs in their artwork.
- Demonstrate care of materials, tools, and equipment when creating works of art.
- Use visual organization skills to design a flyer for a community function.
- Write an artist statement for a body of one's own original completed artwork.
- Demonstrate visual arts vocabulary in an artist's journal when reflecting on their own processes and artwork.
Vocabulary
- Artistic processes
- Various approaches to art making
- Artist statement
- Copyright Laws
- Fair Use Responsibility
- Plagiarize
- Reflecting
- Revising
- Audience and Purpose
- Critique
- Visual Organization
- Context
- Technology
- Mount
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
