AE17.VA.7.12

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 7 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.7.12
Interpret by analyzing art-making approaches, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and meaning.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?

Skills Examples

Examine how personal aesthetic criteria and values are influenced by geography, culture, and history, and explain how such preferences impact our perceptions of and response to artworks on display.
Examine and explain how artworks that are designed for display in particular contexts and that serve specific purposes are perceived and valued by their intended audiences.
Use one's understanding of visual arts genres and the styles of various artists, cultures, places, and times to analyze how stylistic, thematic, and/or technical content of artworks is selected and used to influence the intended audience.
Demonstrate presentation and responding processes, with attention to applying one's understanding of ideas, skills, and techniques of visual arts.
Explore how artists express feelings and present original ideas by using visual arts symbols in a variety of genres, styles, and media.
Demonstrate a responding process, with particular attention to using the elements and foundations of visual arts when evaluating a work of art.

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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.