AE17.VA.2.13

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

AE17.VA.2.13
Use learned art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
EQ: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?

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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

COS Examples

Example: Use statements as, I know the texture of the cat is soft from the pencil marks.““