Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
EQ: What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?
Skills Examples
- Identify and role-play various occupations that involve artists.
- Talk about how the skills and techniques of visual arts can be an enhancement to any career choice.
- Show how to carefully prepare and present artwork.
- Describe how the knowledge, skills, and work habits of visual arts are used in the world of work, including careers in visual arts.
- Talk about how a museum would present information about the Harlem Renaissance.
- Research different types of museums and the role that visual art plays in the restoration, care, and display of artifacts.
- Select three of one's own artworks for display and share the reasons for the selection.
Vocabulary
- Cultural context
- Formal & conceptual vocabulary
- Genre
- Linear perspective
- Preserve
- Principles of design
- Movement
- Emphasis
- Relief
- Vanishing point
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
