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

AE17.VA.6.14

Generate a group of ideas and concepts reflecting current interests that could be investigated in personal art-making.

COS Examples

Example: Using graffiti techniques to draw letters of names.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?

Skills Examples

  • Invent and depict a mythical creature after researching the mythology of another culture.
  • Research and synthesize ideas and information to make a "scape" (such as cityscape, landscape, spacescape, dreamscape, or seascape.
  • Recognize and distinguish between the works of various art movements or periods by comparing styles, techniques, and subjects.
  • Research and synthesize various art movements or periods and utilize their attributes to create an original work of art in the same manner or style.
  • Examine a work of art and describe what one sees and what one thinks is going on in the work and why.
  • Individually or collaboratively create an artwork about a current world event.
  • Utilize and record in a sketchbook/journal the steps of the art-making process: including brainstorming, preliminary sketching, planning, reflecting, refining, and elaborating, to create works of art.
  • Identify how visual language communicates personal meaning.
  • Describe ways artists contribute to society through their work.
  • Investigate how Renaissance art reflected the power of the church and the growing influence of humanistic ideas.
  • Utilize graffiti techniques to draw letters of names.
  • Demonstrate a use of a creative process, focus on gathering and synthesizing information from diverse sources to create visual works of art.
  • Explore the relationship between the visual arts and other content areas to create works of art that communicate specific ideas.
  • Examine visual works of art and describe the specific attributes that reflect the influences of particular artists, styles, cultures, or times.

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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
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