Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Skills Examples
- When given a list of historical or social subjects, use the artistic process to research multiple facts and perspectives; then create an original work of art that synthesizes one's newly informed belief system.
- After researching various elements of Japanese history and culture, create an original Sumi Painting that includes elements discovered through investigation.
- Debate the short- and long-term effects of visual pollution, such as billboards on scenic roadsides, landfills, and highway signs.
- Examine the public art selection process: Determine how a specific artwork in one's community was selected, and analyze its impact on the environment.
- Analyze how an individual's choice of clothing reflects the popular culture of the time as well as other social and environmental influences.
- Demonstrate the creative process, with particular attention to investigating and experimenting with new ideas, skills, foundations, and techniques of visual arts in order to create visual artworks.
- Create an arts presentation that explores and/or integrates multiple disciplines.
- Examine and compare the purposes of artworks in a variety of settings, such as in the family/ home, in the classroom, at school, at events in the community, at other public events, and in advertisement.
- Explore how setting, purpose, and overall context influence viewers' perceptions of visual images, including whether the images constitute visual pollution.
- Investigate and discuss how visual artworks in different societal, cultural, and historical contexts have influenced people's opinions and perception of other people and places.
Vocabulary
- 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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
