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Using the State Curriculum: Visual Arts, Grade 8

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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. Describe how artists represent visual qualities such as spatial relationships, detail, and specific features of subject matter
  2. Represent accurately in visual form spatial relationships, detail, and specific features of subject matter

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  1. Compare how artists use narrative conventions in selected artworks
  2. Create narrative artworks from observation, memory, and imagination that show setting, characters, action, and differing points of view

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  1. Analyze why artists may select specific design concepts to convey meaning in artistic exemplars
  2. Explain reasons for selecting specific design concepts to convey meaning in planning personal artworks

August 25, 2008