AE17.VA.8.10

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.8.10
Collaboratively discuss how a person’s aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and how these influences impact the visual images that one creates.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
EQ: How do life experiences the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?

Skills Examples

Examine and discuss how geographical, cultural, and historical perspectives represented in visual artworks influence an artist's personal aesthetic criteria.
Determine how the personal aesthetic choices reflected in one's own visual artworks are influenced by geography, culture, and history.
Distinguish between various artworks (in a variety of media) based upon each work's context, and aesthetic, stylistic, thematic, and/or technical content.
Analyze how an artist's design choices influence the feelings and ideas of the intended audience.
Demonstrate creative, presentation, and responding processes, with attention to applying the characteristics of form and structure, media, and art making approaches to interpret and describe the mood and messages of a work of art.
Evaluate a variety of visual artworks, identifying the personal aesthetic choices represented in each and explaining how these choices reflect the influence of geography, culture, and history.

Vocabulary

Creative Processes
Organize and develop ideas
Traditional Media
Contemporary Media
Fair Use
Open Source
Creative Commons
Develop artistic ideas
Plagiarizing
Graffiti
Defacing
Criteria
Refine and complete artistic work
Archival
Criteria
Cultural Context
Body of Artwork
Collaborate
Medium/ Media
Genre

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

COS Examples

Example: Discuss the influence of Japanese animation on drawing techniques and styles of American youth.

Aligned Learning Resources

Photo-Sensitive Chemical Reactions