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Using the State Curriculum: Visual Arts, Grade 7

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Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education:

Visual Arts:

Standard 1.0 Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education

Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, interpret, and respond to ideas, experiences, and the environment through visual art.

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Objectives
  1. Compare the physical qualities of observed forms in selected artworks, including the use of form, light and shadow, surface texture, detail, and spatial relationships
  2. Compose, render, and describe observed subject matter that shows 3-dimensional form, light and shadow, qualities of surface texture, detail, spatial relationships, and proportion

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  1. Describe narrative conventions used by artists in selected artworks
  2. Create narrative artworks from observation, memory, and imagination that show settings, characters, and action

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  1. Compare and describe how artists use design concepts to organize the elements of art and principles of design to convey ideas, thoughts, and feelings in selected artworks
  2. Identify ways to use the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings in planning personal artworks

August 25, 2008