AE17.VA.6.11

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 6 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.6.11
Discuss ways that visual components and cultural connections suggested by images can influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
EQ: What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?

Skills Examples

Select examples of how geographical, cultural, and historical perspectives are represented in visual artworks.
Compare and contrast the ways that personal aesthetic choices in visual arts influence personal choices.
Examine and describe the influence of art in a community.
Research examples of arts-related activities in communities around the world.
Describe what the global community would look like or be like without art.
Demonstrate the responding process, using, background knowledge, personal experiences, and context when examining artworks and determining personal meaning.
Examine and discuss how the geographical, cultural, and historical perspectives represented in visual artworks influence personal choices (economic, political, and environmental) and personal aesthetic criteria.
Compare attributes of artworks in the classroom, school, and community, or artworks of a specific culture, place, or time, and describe how they influence culture, ideas, and events.
Demonstrate the responding process, with attention to the elements and principles of design, to interpret and describe works of visual art.
Analyze how the uses of traditional and nontraditional mediums affect the mood of an artwork.
Demonstrate various presentation and responding processes for a work of art. Evaluate visual artworks by analyzing their structure and interpreting meaning using various criteria.

Vocabulary

Artistic ideas and work
Formal and conceptual vocabulary
Innovation
Investigation
Two-dimensional
Three-dimensional
Experimentation
Conservation
Craftsmanship
Linear perspective
Environmental responsibility
Prior knowledge
Museum
Gallery
Curator
Digital
Horizon Line
Brainstorming
Research

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

COS Examples

Example: Shepard Fairey’s Hope“ poster influenced politics of the 2008 presidential election.“