Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Benchmark 1
The students will select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices.
Indicator 1
The students will be exposed to traditional media and emerging technology such as computer art, design, drawing, film/video, jewelry, photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles/fibers.
Indicator 2
The students will select and use appropriate media, techniques and processes to express ideas, feelings and experiences.
Indicator 3
The students will demonstrate safe use, control and maintenance of tools and media.
Indicator 4
The students will identify problems encountered while making art and develop possible solutions.
Indicator 5
The students will analyze the effectiveness of personal solutions to art problems.
Using knowledge of structures and functions.
Benchmark 1
The students will generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work.
Indicator 1
The students will discuss implicit and explicit evidence of elements and principles of design found in two and three-dimensional shapes/forms.
Indicator 2
The students will demonstrate understanding of formal and expressive qualities in representational, abstract and nonobjective works of art and their functions.
Benchmark 2
The students will employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas.
Indicator 1
The students will demonstrate use of elements and principles in a variety of art works.
Indicator 2
The students will analyze the effect of combined elements and principles to convey the purpose of specific artworks.
Benchmark 3
The students will select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas.
Indicator 1
The students will synthesize elements and principles to convey meaning and purpose in art.
Indicator 2
The students will understand connections of the visual arts to human needs, values and beliefs.
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.
Benchmark 1
The students will integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks.
Indicator 1
The students will develop an idea, plan and produce works of art that convey specific messages.
Indicator 2
The students will compare and interpret artwork based on common themes and/or functions.
Indicator 3
The students will analyze and explain criteria for judging works of art from different perspectives, such as the art historian, art critic, artist, consumer and student.
Benchmark 2
The students will use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks.
Indicator 1
The students will generate and analyze responses to contemporary and
historical artworks.
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Benchmark 1
The students will know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.
Indicator 1
The students will identify characteristics of artwork of selected eras and cultures.
Indicator 2
The students will categorize selected artworks according to historical/cultural contexts.
Indicator 3
The students will create art that reflects knowledge of other cultures.
Indicator 4
The students will research and analyze the characteristics of two or more works of art that share similar subject matter and/or culture.
Indicator 5
The students will compare interrelationship between human behavior, the
environment and its materials.
Indicator 6
The students will create works of art that implement and extend knowledge of science, mathematics, social studies, language arts and the performing arts.
Benchmark 2
The students will describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts.
Indicator 1
The students will explain the relationship of the principles and subject matter of other disciplines with the visual arts.
Indicator 2
The students will identify the processes of how creating art uses a variety of intellectual skills as in other subjects.
Benchmark 3
The students will analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.
Indicator 1
The students will demonstrate an understanding of how the meanings of specific artworks reflect factors of time and place.
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
Benchmark 1
The students will compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.
Indicator 1
The students will develop an idea, plan and produce works of art that convey specific messages.
Indicator 2
The students will analyze and explain criteria for judging works of art from different perspectives, such as the art historian, art critic, artist, consumer, and student.
Benchmark 2
The students will analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.
Indicator 1
The students will compare and interpret artwork based on common themes and/or functions.
Indicator 2
The students will generate and analyze responses to contemporary and historical artworks.
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
Benchmark 1
The students will compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context.
Indicator 1
The students will identify characteristics of artwork of selected eras and cultures.
Indicator 2
The students will categorize selected artworks according to historical/cultural contexts.
Indicator 3
The students will create art that reflects knowledge of other cultures.
Indicator 4
The students will research and analyze the characteristics of two or more works of art that share similar subject matter and/or culture.
Indicator 5
The students will create works of art that implement and extend knowledge of science, mathematics, social studies, language arts and the performing arts.
Benchmark 2
The students will describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts.
Indicator 1
The students will demonstrate an understanding of how the meanings of specific artworks reflect factors of time and place.
Indicator 2
The students will explain the relationship of the principles and subject matter of other disciplines with the visual arts.
Indicator 3
The students will compare interrelationship between human behavior, the environment and its materials.
Indicator 4
The students will identify the processes of how creating art uses a variety of intellectual skills as in other subjects.
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