Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Skills Examples
- Identify the basic elements of art in a work of art through group discussion.
- Discuss how people create works of art to communicate ideas and serve different purposes.
- Investigate how a select work of art was created.
- Identify elements of art and principles of design in their own artwork and in those of others using art vocabulary.
- Connect the stories in works of art to the cultures they represent.
- Compare Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa with Johannes Vermeer's The Girl with the Pearl Earring to identify different uses of the elements of art and principles of design.
- Compare images that represent the same subject matter.
- Connect visual stories with literary stories.
- Share their art-making processes with peers
- Classify/ group art work by portraits, landscapes and still life.
Vocabulary
- Complementary colors
- Contrast
- Curator
- Elements of Art
- Texture
- Landscapes
- Portrait
- Positive/ negative space and shape
- Principles of design
- Repetition
- Variety
- Secondary colors
- Still life
- Technique
- Venue
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
