State Curriculum - Visual Arts

 
Grade 7
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.:
1. Identify, describe, interpret, and produce visual representations of the physical qualities of observed form
a. Compare the physical qualities of observed forms in selected artworks, including the use of form, light and shadow, surface texture, detail, and spatial relationships
b. Compose, render, and describe observed subject matter that shows 3-dimensional form, light and shadow, qualities of surface texture, detail, spatial relationships, and proportion
2. Interpret and communicate the meaning of art works
a. Describe narrative conventions used by artists in selected artworks
b. Create narrative artworks from observation, memory, and imagination that show settings, characters, and action
3. Analyze the application of the elements of art and principles of design in artistic exemplars and personal artworks
a. 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
b. 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