UP:AE17.VA.3.2

Vocabulary

Creativity
Criteria
Critique
Design
Media
Mixed media
Monochromatic
Principles of design

Rhythm

Technology
Visual image

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
EQ: How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?

Skills Examples

Use a variety of materials to create a three-dimensional mask showing a student's personality.
Use torn paper scraps to create rhythm in a landscape.
Plan a community/city; then, build a model of it with recyclable materials, such as cardboard, boxes, containers, and tubes.
Collaborate with a group to demonstrate how to care for tools used in class (such as paintbrushes).
After looking at Vincent van Gogh's painting, Bedroom, create a narrative painting depicting a memory of a student's personal bedroom.
Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during the art-making process of two-and-three-dimensional artworks.
Collaborate with others to create a work of art that addresses an interdisciplinary theme.
Read and explore books like Imagine That by Joyce Raimondo or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland and then create a Surrealistic style artwork.
Recognize and identify choices that give meaning to a personal work of art.
Create a drawing using monochromatic colors (paint, oil pastels, etc.).
Explore individual creativity using a variety of media.
Understand what effects different media can have in a work of art.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.