AE17.VA.2.11

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.2.11
Categorize images based on expressive properties.

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

Compare lines on a seashell to lines made by fence posts.
Discuss how artists make choices that communicate ideas in works of art.
Discuss how artists use familiar symbols to express and create artwork.
Discuss how the artistic process can lead to "happy accidents" discovering something new.
Use basic self-assessment strategies to improve their artworks.
Discuss the difference between assessing the quality of an artwork and personal preference for the work.
Talk about color qualities and composition in Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist.
Discuss and recognize how artists use different materials and processes to create art.
Recognize patterns and textures that can be found in many places in and around the school and community.
Use statements that include artistic terminology such as, "I know the texture of the cat is soft from the pencil marks I see."

Vocabulary

Principles of design

Balance

Brainstorming
Composition
Concepts
Characteristic
Elements of art

Space
Value

Expressive properties
Foreground
Middle ground
Neutral colors
Resist

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Aligned Learning Resources

Cool and Warm Colors