Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
EQ: How do life experiences the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
EQ: How do life experiences the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?
Skills Examples
- Examine and discuss how geographical, cultural, and historical perspectives represented in visual artworks influence an artist's personal aesthetic criteria.
- Determine how the personal aesthetic choices reflected in one's own visual artworks are influenced by geography, culture, and history.
- Distinguish between various artworks (in a variety of media) based upon each work's context, and aesthetic, stylistic, thematic, and/or technical content.
- Analyze how an artist's design choices influence the feelings and ideas of the intended audience.
- Demonstrate creative, presentation, and responding processes, with attention to applying the characteristics of form and structure, media, and art making approaches to interpret and describe the mood and messages of a work of art.
- Evaluate a variety of visual artworks, identifying the personal aesthetic choices represented in each and explaining how these choices reflect the influence of geography, culture, and history.
Vocabulary
- Creative Processes
- Organize and develop ideas
- Traditional Media
- Contemporary Media
- Fair Use
- Open Source
- Creative Commons
- Develop artistic ideas
- Plagiarizing
- Graffiti
- Defacing
- Criteria
- Refine and complete artistic work
- Archival
- Criteria
- Cultural Context
- Body of Artwork
- Collaborate
- Medium/ Media
- Genre
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
