AE17.VA.AD.1

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 09-12 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.AD.1
Individually and/or collaboratively formulate and expand new ideas based on existing artwork.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
EQ: What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?

Skills Examples

Generate a socially-relevant idea for an artwork that can affect a positive social change.
After researching propaganda art, such as painting used during WWII, create an original work of art intended to sway the viewer's opinion about a specific social issue.
Create works of art that revolve around a theme that the student has defined.
Reflect upon and justify one's use of media and techniques when planning artworks that serve a specific purpose or address a particular theme.
Demonstrate the creative process, with particular attention to gathering and interpreting information from diverse sources responsibility to create original works of art.

Vocabulary

Artist Statement
Abstraction
Animation
Distortion
Elaboration
Fragmentation
Juxtaposition
Magnification
Metamorphosis
Multiplication
Reversals
Simplification
Viewpoint
Form, intent, and content complement each other
Intent drives the selection of media and technique
Mix and blend materials
Expand on new ideas of communicating visually.
Making informed choices to communicate effectively.
Artists pursue new and innovative ways to create multiple themed artworks with technical skill and mastery while maintaining and caring for materials.
Reflect, re-engage, revise and refining works of art.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.