AE17.VA.8.13

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

AE17.VA.8.13
Collaborate to create a convincing and logical justification to support an evaluation of art.

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 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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.