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 and contrast artworks in terms of content, stylistic characteristics, and techniques.
- Collaboratively observe, analyze, and interpret a body of artworks about places, focusing on content, style, and technique.
- Identify and analyze the terracotta Army and its relationship to Chinese Culture.
- Describe the relationship between works of art from different cultures being respectful and mindful of cultural sensitive themes.
- Discuss differences in art of familiar and unfamiliar cultures.
- Discuss the reasons and value of documenting and preserving works of art and objects for a culture.
- Recognize what was learned and the challenges that remain when assessing a work of art.
- Use criteria to assess works of art individually and collaboratively.
- Use contextual cues to discuss notions of beauty and aesthetic value.
- Compare and contrast different media and techniques.
Vocabulary
- Cultural context
- Formal & conceptual vocabulary
- Genre
- Linear perspective
- Preserve
- Principles of design
- Movement
- Emphasis
- Relief
- Vanishing point
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
