Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
EQ: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
EQ: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
