AE17.VA.AD.4

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

AE17.VA.AD.4
Demonstrate the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
EQ: How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?

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 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.