Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.AC.11

Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
EQ: What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?

Skills Examples

  • Investigate and discuss how visual appearances (aesthetics) influence one's opinion and perceptions of the natural world and manmade constructions.
  • Explain how the arts reflect life choices one has made, as well as how those choices have been influenced by culture, society, and environment.
  • Analyze the images in an artwork created for a specific purpose, and determine how effective the imagery was at altering the social perceptions or ideas and behavior of the audience.
  • Evaluate how effectively visual artworks created for a particular purpose and audience communicate the ideas and inspire intended responses.
  • Articulate and justify the rationale that one uses when making artistic choices to create artworks that communicate to a specific audience.
  • Identify and gather evidence/information by researching the context of an artwork to discover its significance.
  • Apply contextual information when interpreting an artwork to extend one's understanding beyond what can be deduced just by looking.
  • Demonstrate a responding process, with particular attention to perceiving and critiquing the aesthetic criteria and other factors that shape the way that others respond to and evaluate visual artworks.

Vocabulary

  • Portraiture
  • Figures
  • Landscapes
  • Cityscapes
  • Everyday Life
  • Social Issues
  • Personal History
  • Conceptual/ Text-based Art
  • Image Appropriation
  • Conceptual Art
  • Reflection
  • Innovative thing are essential life skills.
  • Understanding contexts, histories and traditions that lead artists to break established traditions.
  • Experimentation of various art forms to express visual communication.
  • Responsible and ethical use of resources is essential when creating works of art.
  • People interact and perceive various art works in many different ways.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
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