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

AE17.VA.6.15

Analyze how art reflects changing societal and cultural traditions.

COS Examples

Example: Renaissance art reflected the power of the church and the growing influence of humanistic ideas.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
EQ: How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?

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 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
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