Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
EQ: How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
EQ: How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
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 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
