AE17.VA.AD.5

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

AE17.VA.AD.5
Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
EQ: How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?

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.