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
- Maintain a well-organized daily journal throughout an art project. Include initial inspirations and ideas with documentation of sources, deliberates choices, and intentional deviations.
- Create a documentary film about the creative process and its relation to a specific art project from inception to completion.
- After researching Japanese folk art, describe how the pottery of Shoji Hamada becomes far more relevant for viewers who have an understanding of Mingei movement.
- Describe the significance of Marcel Duchamp's art work Fountain, given the historical context of the Dada movement.
- Review copyright laws and appropriation.
- Document one's creative process with particular attention to identifying the purpose of a proposed visual arts composition and exploring and gathering information from diverse sources when planning and developing the artwork.
- Evaluate and explain how one makes deliberate choices when creating an artwork.
- Interpret a variety of works of art that reflect the influence of particular styles, artists, cultures, places, or times, and describe how knowledge of each work's context affects one's response.
- Examine how one's aesthetic criteria and responses to visuals arts are influenced by geography, culture, and history.
- Discuss how the geographical, cultural, and historical perspectives represented in visual artworks influence personal aesthetic criteria.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
