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

AE17.VA.7.13

Compare and contrast evaluation methods between artwork based on personal criteria and artwork based on a set of established criteria.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
EQ: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?

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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
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