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
- 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 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
