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
- Compare works of art found in various publications with the original work displayed on museum websites.
- Make observations regarding quality and effect of viewing work in a sketchbook versus viewing work matted and hanging in an art show
- List expectations of behavior that may differ according to venue.
- Display appropriate behavior in a variety of settings, such as a gallery, a school show, and an interactive museum.
- Use appropriate interactions with public art.
- Examine, either physically or electronically, the presentation of art at a world-class museum in comparison to a local or regional venue.
- Using books, magazines, and/or virtual exhibits, view and discuss works in various formality of display.
- Compare an artwork's effect of communicating in contrasting settings (street cubical, hallway of school to fine art gallery display).
- Select materials for appropriate for presentation of a work or show.
- Attend an art show or presentation and make notes on effective display methods.
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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
