AE17.VA.6.15

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

AE17.VA.6.15
Analyze how art reflects changing societal and cultural traditions.

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.

COS Examples

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