Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Skills Examples
- Critique and justify how personal aesthetic criteria and choices evolve over time and are influenced by the geographical, cultural, and historical perspectives represented in a variety of visual artworks.
- Compare society's responses to artworks over time, taking into account that perceptions are influenced by culture, personal experiences, social media, and advertisements.
- Examine the knowledge, skills, and work habits that are needed for careers in the arts; explain how arts skills, innovation, and imagination transfer to various careers in the world of work, and justify the explanation.
- Apply one's understanding of the genres and styles of various artists, cultures, places, and times when selecting, categorizing, and critiquing historically significant works of art by a variety of artists, in a variety of styles, and from a variety of cultures and times.
- Describe common characteristics, attributes, styles, and relationships between groups of artists and artworks. Select and use specific images, attributes, or characteristics to create a work of art in the manner of a particular group, style, culture, or historical period.
- Evaluate and compare various interpretations of a visual artwork; choose one interpretation and use one's own analysis of the artwork to explain and justify the choice.
- Demonstrate a responding process, with particular attention to engaging the senses actively and purposefully and applying diverse criteria and relevant background knowledge and research when evaluating visual artworks.
- Work independently to use arts symbols in a variety of genres, styles, and media in order to create artworks that synthesize original ideas and feelings.
- Integrate and adapt attributes of a particular society or culture, or of one's own experiences, to create original artworks and designs.
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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
