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Essential Questions
EU: Artists, curators, and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
EQ: What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
EQ: What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
Skills Examples
- Create a unique mat or frame.
- Create a piece inspired by an environment and/or for an environment.
- Explore ways to preserve works of art in various environments.
- Explore ways that museums or galleries restore works of arts exposed to various environments.
- Explore testing how materials may be impacted by an environment prior to creating a work of art.
- Curate an online gallery of artist work.
- Curate a body of work with a specific theme by various artists.
- Present a presentation of works that are related by theme, subject matter, time period, or artist and explain the connection and impact of each piece.
- Design a pop up gallery space in a school.
- Research an artist’s body of work and create a timeline presentation of their work to offer insight into their process, history, or cultural impacts.
- Research and create a work of art that is intentionally meant to disappear or disintegrate or not last longer that a short time period.
- Explore how a work is only preserved in a video or photograph.
- Work collaboratively to create an art show.
- Work with local venues to host an art show.
- Hide mini works of art around the school or in a public venue (with permission).
- Work collaboratively with another art form (dance, music, theater, digital media) to create a work of art with a collaborative purpose and artistic meaning to be displayed or used in a new way (backdrop for dancers, video for music).
Vocabulary
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
- Portraiture
- Figures
- Landscapes
- Cityscapes
- Everyday Life
- Social Issues
- Personal History
- Conceptual/ Text-based Art
- Image Appropriation
- Conceptual Art
- Reflection
- Innovative thing are essential life skills.
- Understanding contexts, histories and traditions that lead artists to break established traditions.
- Experimentation of various art forms to express visual communication.
- Responsible and ethical use of resources is essential when creating works of art.
- People interact and perceive various art works in many different ways.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
