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Understanding and evaluating how the arts convey meaning.
Anchor Standard #1: Perceive and analyze artistic work Anchor Standard #2: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work Anchor Standard #3: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. |
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These projects will be filed under the following standards in Infinite Campus:
Standard 4: Demonstrates flexibility within a variety of artistic contexts Standard 5: Reflects upon and assesses own work and the work of others. |
Art Challenge 1: Culture Impact
Anchor Standard #1: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Visual Arts: Responding: 7.1.8: Explain how a person's aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and impact the visual image that one conveys to others.
Enduring Understanding: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
Visual Arts: Responding: 7.1.8: Explain how a person's aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and impact the visual image that one conveys to others.
Enduring Understanding: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
Essential Questions:
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Task:Explain how a person's aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and impact the visual image that one conveys to others.
Compare artwork from 3 various cultures and tell how they show how artists are representing their cultures and environments through their artwork. -OR- Make a piece of artwork that represents how art impacts our culture in comparison to another culture's artwork. You will have to dig deep into the other culture's artwork to truly understand how their life experience have influenced their artmaking. Points:30,000
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Art Challenge 2: Impact of Images
Anchor Standard #1: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Visual Arts: Responding: 7.2.8: Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
Enduring Understanding: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Visual Arts: Responding: 7.2.8: Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
Enduring Understanding: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Questions
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Task:Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
Think about how you come across images in your daily life. Is it through the web? social media? or from photos that you take on your phone? How do these images influence you as a middle school student? What ideas, emotions, and actions have been influenced through these images? Choose a topic that relates to how images have influenced ONE of these areas: ideas, emotions or actions? Make artwork that talks about how images influence our understanding of our world and how we respond to each other.
How does an image share an idea?
Can an image make you feel jealous? or feel compassion for others?
Does a photo of starving children make you take action to help those in need? Points:30,000
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Art Challenge 3: Impact of Meaning
Anchor Standard #2: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Visual Arts: Responding: 8.1.8: Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art-making approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Visual Arts: Responding: 8.1.8: Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art-making approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question
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TaskInterpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art-making approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed.
How does what we see influence the meaning of the artwork? Are their key symbols that would allow us to read the artwork and understand the meaning? Take a look at contemporary artists and dig deeper into the intend meaning of their artwork. Create a work of art that is inspired by their use of meaning to share your own artwork that has meaning to you! Points:30,000
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Art Challenge 4: Impact of Critique
Anchor Standard #3: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Visual Arts: Responding: 9.1.8: Create a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art.
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Visual Arts: Responding: 9.1.8: Create a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art.
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
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Task:Create a convincing and logical argument to support an evaluation of art.
Research Famous Art Critics of the art world. By looking through past art critics, gain a better understanding of what art critics use to evaluate artwork? Do they talk about the Elements & Principles of Art? Do they judge the artwork of their time against what other artists in that time period are doing? Develop your own criteria and critique a famous piece of artwork giving your own argument with 4 supporting statements to back your argument. Your 4 supporting statements should be hyper-linked directly in your blog post! Points:30,000
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