Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Skills Examples
- Create an artwork that combines influences of a particular artist, style, culture, or time with personal experience; for instance, create a collage in the manner of Romare Bearden that references gentrification of urban areas.
- Create an original painting that speaks to a significant personal memory and contains features, qualities, or attributes that were derived from a historical art movement.
- Describe, from different perspectives, the extent to which Jim Fitzpatrick's portraiture of Che Guevara or Shepard Fairey's Hope changed how society viewed the historical figures depicted.
- Analyze how an artistic movement influenced greater society, such as how the pop art movement of the 1960's changed the way that many Americans viewed marketing and popular imagery.
- 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 of culture, or of one's own experiences, to create original works and designs.
- Evaluate how specific artists, artworks, or designs have shaped culture, society, or history, and justify one's evaluation and conclusions.
- Evaluate the role of the artist and the impact of visual arts in relation to the economy, politics, and the environment.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
