AE17.VA.7.13

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.