Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of 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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
