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
- Plan the display of one's own work.
- Organize works of art to display, given an available location.
- Compare the use of surrealist techniques, such as juxtaposition, transformation, and levitation, in artworks by René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, and other surrealist artists.
- Describe an art movement's social, political, and cultural impact on art history.
- After investigating the significance of cultural icons, create an artwork that uses cultural symbols to represent a social group or individual for presentation to that group.
- Compare and contrast how methods for presentation of cultural icons may differ for purpose and audience.
- Use context cues to deduct intent and meaning of artworks on display.
- Compare media of different quality and select appropriate materials for execution of work. May work alone or in small groups.
- Revise a work following participation in a group critique.
- Modify a work's display from one venue to another.
Vocabulary
- Innovative Thinking
- Creative Processes
- Multiple Solutions
- Organize and Develop Ideas and Work
- Technical Skill
- Craftsmanship
- Mat types and processes
- Concentration
- Breadth
- Portfolio
- Artistic problems can have more than one solution and can be approached from a variety of media.
- Artwork is created with technical skill, craftsmanship and proficiency.
- Artists are knowledgeable in copyright laws for images from various resources.
- Artists create a plan for display of intended artwork.
- Correct terminology is used when discussing or writing about art.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
