Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
Skills Examples
- Generate a socially-relevant idea for an artwork that can affect a positive social change.
- After researching propaganda art, such as painting used during WWII, create an original work of art intended to sway the viewer's opinion about a specific social issue.
- Create works of art that revolve around a theme that the student has defined.
- Reflect upon and justify one's use of media and techniques when planning artworks that serve a specific purpose or address a particular theme.
- Demonstrate the creative process, with particular attention to gathering and interpreting information from diverse sources responsibility to create original works of art.
Vocabulary
- Artist Statement
- Abstraction
- Animation
- Distortion
- Elaboration
- Fragmentation
- Juxtaposition
- Magnification
- Metamorphosis
- Multiplication
- Reversals
- Simplification
- Viewpoint
- Form, intent, and content complement each other
- Intent drives the selection of media and technique
- Mix and blend materials
- Expand on new ideas of communicating visually.
- Making informed choices to communicate effectively.
- Artists pursue new and innovative ways to create multiple themed artworks with technical skill and mastery while maintaining and caring for materials.
- Reflect, re-engage, revise and refining works of art.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
