Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
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 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
