State Curriculum - Visual Arts

 
Grade 8
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. Describe how artists represent visual qualities such as spatial relationships, detail, and specific features of subject matter
b. Represent accurately in visual form spatial relationships, detail, and specific features of subject matter
2. Interpret and communicate the meaning of art works
a. Compare how artists use narrative conventions in selected artworks
b. Create narrative artworks from observation, memory, and imagination that show setting, characters, action, and differing points of view
3. Analyze the application of the elements of art and principles of design in artistic exemplars and personal artworks
a. Analyze why artists may select specific design concepts to convey meaning in artistic exemplars
b. Explain reasons for selecting specific design concepts to convey meaning in planning personal artworks
 

 

August 25, 2008