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?
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
- Research and present the ways that characteristic attributes of visual arts (choices, steps, processes, and perseverance) can be connected to other academic subjects.
- Show how the creative process applies to all subjects, careers, and technical education, through increasing imagination and innovation.
- Produce and analyze an arts presentation that integrates other content areas.
- Analyze how the visual arts influence creative, critical thinkers and problem solvers.
- Explain how art impacts and reflects choices in society, such as choices involving environmental issues, family, school, community, businesses and consumers, advertisers, and cultural issues.
- Compare specific attributes of artworks from different cultures, places, or times; then, evaluate how the artworks (or particular attributes) have shaped or influenced specific people, cultures, historical periods, or events.
- Apply an understanding of the concepts, elements, and vocabulary of visual arts and the principles of design when analyzing and interpreting artworks.
- Demonstrate a responding process by forming significant criteria (with particular attention to applying and justifying aesthetic criteria) when evaluating and interpreting visual artworks.
Vocabulary
- Artistic processes
- Traditional Media
- Contemporary Media
- Craftsmanship
- Experimentation
- Aesthetics
- Perception
- Scale
- Proportion
- Develop artistic ideas and work
- Build upon prior knowledge
- Explore creative art-making goals
- Communicate ideas
- Artists create works of art that implement the art elements and principles of design - regardless if the artwork is traditional or contemporary.
- Artists employ technical skills and craftsmanship when creating works of art.
- Artists act responsibly when handling of tools and materials, following safety guidelines and are conscious of the environment which they work.
- Artists reflect and revise upon their artwork throughout the creative process.
- Develop excellence through practice and constructive critique.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
