Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Skills Examples
- Recreate a historical moment in art history.
- Create posters for a community issue or event.
- Compare the styles and/or themes of artworks from various artists, cultures, and times.
- Determine how cultural differences influence the content/themes of various murals of the past and present.
- Examine the work of Andy Warhol and create a work of art in his style of a contemporary icon.
- Investigate the significance and symbolism of cultural icons.
- Create an original work of art or group artwork which utilizes culture symbols, icons, or logos to represent an individual or social group.
- Work alone or collaboratively to demonstrate the creative process and create artworks that represent an artistic event or experience in a community.
- Analyze the aesthetic, stylistic, thematic, and/or technical content of an artwork and identify the influences that it is reflects and the purpose for its creation.
- Explain how one's interpretation or response to a work of art was affected by one's understanding and background knowledge.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
