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 Gyotaku Japanese fish printing and printing with a rubber stamp.
- Make conclusions about the artist's feelings and perspective.
- Analyze the meaning of Edvard Munch's The Scream.
- Interpret Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware River and its relevance to the Revolutionary War.
- Discuss and form an opinion about the social and personal value of a piece of art.
- Apply one element or principle of design to discuss how students' outcomes are different even though they used the same criteria for a work of art/ design.
- Formulate criteria for discussing and assessing works of art.
- Use art vocabulary when discussing and judging artworks.
- Engage in group critiques of one's work and the work of others for the purpose of personal reflection and on-going improvement.
Vocabulary
- Constructed environment
- Cultural traditions
- Digital format
- Engagement
- Tertiary color
- Preservation
- Proportion
- Principles of design
- Unity
- Shade
- Style
- Tints & shades
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
