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
- 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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
