Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
Skills Examples
- Use a variety of materials (wood, found objects, wire, paper, clay, etc.) to construct a three-dimensional work of art.
- Have students keep journals to reflect on and combine ideas for their works of art.
- Draw a still life of students' favorite objects, while adding color with a variety of media (paint, pastels, collage, etc.).
- Draw an object or other images (landscapes, hallways, etc.) in linear one-point perspective.
- Create tessellations in connection with interdisciplinary subjects such as mathematics.
- Write a short story and illustrate the story with original drawings.
- Draw and transform two-dimensional shapes into three-dimensional forms. (squares to cubes, circles to spheres, triangles to pyramids and cones)
- Write a personal artist statement to accompany an original work of art.
- Draw a landscape including foreground, middle ground, and background.
- Create an artwork integrating observational and technical skills to solve a problem or address contemporary social issues.
- Create a bas-relief by carving into a clay slab.
Vocabulary
- Cultural context
- Formal & conceptual vocabulary
- Genre
- Linear perspective
- Preserve
- Principles of design
- Movement
- Emphasis
- Relief
- Vanishing point
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
