Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists, curators, and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
EQ: What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
EQ: What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
Skills Examples
- Discuss why student artwork has value and should be displayed.
- Collect favorite selections of original artwork to present during parent conferences.
- Choose artwork for public display, such as in a hallway, office, or gymnasium.
- Choose particular artworks from among those created over the course of the school year and tell how the collection shows what was learned.
- Create a portfolio folder with comments describing purpose or process of each piece of art.
- View different art publications and/or museums via the Internet.
- Engage in a virtual field study by viewing an art museum's website or virtual museum.
- Visit a museum on a field trip.
Vocabulary
- Art
- Artwork
- Collaboratively
- Collage
- Cool colors
- Warm colors
- Elements of Art
- Color
- Line
- Shape
- Imaginative play
- Play
- Portfolio
- Primary colors
- Principles of design
- Pattern
- Printmaking
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
