AE17.VA.2.12

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

AE17.VA.2.12
Interpret art by identifying the mood or feeling suggested by a work of art through subject matter and visual qualities.

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?

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."