State Curriculum - Visual Arts

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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.: 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.: 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
1. Identify, describe, interpret, and produce visual representations of the physical qualities of observed form
1. Identify, describe, interpret, and produce visual representations of the physical qualities of observed form
a. Differentiate how artists represent physical qualities of observed forms in 2- and 3-dimensional artworks
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
a. Describe how artists represent visual qualities such as spatial relationships, detail, and specific features of subject matter
b. Compose and render from observation subject matter that shows 3-dimensional form, light and shadow, qualities of surface texture, detail, spatial relationships, and proportion
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
b. Represent accurately in visual form spatial relationships, detail, and specific features of subject matter
2. Interpret and communicate the meaning of art works
2. Interpret and communicate the meaning of art works
2. Interpret and communicate the meaning of art works
a. Identify narrative conventions used by artists in selected artworks
a. Describe narrative conventions used by artists in selected artworks
a. Compare how artists use narrative conventions in selected artworks
b. Create narrative artworks from observation, memory, and imagination that show settings and characters
b. Create narrative artworks from observation, memory, and imagination that show settings, characters, and action
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
3. Analyze the application of the elements of art and principles of design in artistic exemplars and personal artworks
3. Analyze the application of the elements of art and principles of design in artistic exemplars and personal artworks
a. Identify and describe how artists use design concepts to organize the elements of art and principles of design to convey ideas, thoughts, and feelings
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
a. Analyze why artists may select specific design concepts to convey meaning in artistic exemplars
b. Use selected design concepts to organize the elements of art and principles of design to convey ideas, thoughts, and feelings
b. Identify ways to use the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings in planning personal artworks
b. Explain reasons for selecting specific design concepts to convey meaning in planning personal artworks
 

 

August 25, 2008