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
- Demonstrate appropriate interactions with public art.
- Select work and identify appropriate methods and materials for its public display.
- Demonstrate how one's interactions with public artwork differ according to the artwork's context and location.
- Write a personal response describing one's own thoughts and beliefs as they are affected after viewing groups of work with various intent and messages.
- List characteristics observed that set certain moods or feelings in a work of art and/or display.
- Analyze how an art work relates to one's own background knowledge or experience.
- Tell how an individual's background knowledge and experiences may influence perception of works on their own and in different settings.
- Tabulate how many works can fit in a given space.
- Match images to appropriate audience or venue.
- Measure an exhibition space and sizes of art work to determine how the work may be best displayed.
Vocabulary
- Artistic processes
- Traditional Media
- Contemporary Media
- Craftsmanship
- Experimentation
- Aesthetics
- Perception
- Scale
- Proportion
- Develop artistic ideas and work
- Build upon prior knowledge
- Explore creative art-making goals
- Communicate ideas
- Artists create works of art that implement the art elements and principles of design - regardless if the artwork is traditional or contemporary.
- Artists employ technical skills and craftsmanship when creating works of art.
- Artists act responsibly when handling of tools and materials, following safety guidelines and are conscious of the environment which they work.
- Artists reflect and revise upon their artwork throughout the creative process.
- Develop excellence through practice and constructive critique.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
