Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects, artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
EQ: How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
EQ: How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?
Skills Examples
- Compare works of art found in various publications with the original work displayed on museum websites.
- Make observations regarding quality and effect of viewing work in a sketchbook versus viewing work matted and hanging in an art show
- List expectations of behavior that may differ according to venue.
- Display appropriate behavior in a variety of settings, such as a gallery, a school show, and an interactive museum.
- Use appropriate interactions with public art.
- Examine, either physically or electronically, the presentation of art at a world-class museum in comparison to a local or regional venue.
- Using books, magazines, and/or virtual exhibits, view and discuss works in various formality of display.
- Compare an artwork's effect of communicating in contrasting settings (street cubical, hallway of school to fine art gallery display).
- Select materials for appropriate for presentation of a work or show.
- Attend an art show or presentation and make notes on effective display methods.
Vocabulary
- Artistic processes
- Various approaches to art making
- Artist statement
- Copyright Laws
- Fair Use Responsibility
- Plagiarize
- Reflecting
- Revising
- Audience and Purpose
- Critique
- Visual Organization
- Context
- Technology
- Mount
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
