Visual Arts

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. 

• Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
• Collaboratively engage in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

• Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.
• Identify safe and non-toxic art materials, tools, and equipment.
• Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.

Revise, refine, and complete artistic work. 

• Explain the process of making art while creating.

Analyze, interpret and select artistic work for presentation.

• Select art objects for personal portfolio and display, explaining why they were chosen.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

• Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

• Explain what an art museum is and distinguish  how an art museum is different from other buildings.

Perceive and analyze artistic work. 

• Identify uses of art within one’s environments. 
• Describe what an image represents.

Construct meaningful interpretations of artistic work.

• List details and identify subject matter of works of art. 

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

• Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. 

• Create art that tells a story about a life experience.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding. 

• Identify a purpose of an artwork.

Language of the Arts

• Demonstrate knowledge of different types of lines, shapes/forms and textures.
• Exhibit knowledge of primary and secondary colors.
• Show spatial relationships in a work of art (e.g. overlapping).
• Demonstrate the concepts of repetition and pattern.
• Create artwork that portrays a theme, idea, feeling or story.
• Show knowledge of the four fine arts.

Creating

• Use appropriate tools correctly and safely with simple materials when creating 2D and 3D artworks.

Arts and Civilization

• Name an occupation associated with an art form (e.g. actor, painter, dancer, musician).
• Create a work of art that tells about people, times, places and/or everyday life.

Language of the Arts

• Demonstrate understanding of a six-color color wheel.
• Discriminate between foreground, middle ground and background, and create the illusion of depth in an artwork.
• Show understanding that repeated lines and shapes form patterns.
• Use symmetrical and asymmetrical balance.
• Show understanding of similarities between visual art and another art form (e.g. mood in Starry Night and Peer Gynt Suite).

Creating

• Apply the processes of creating 2-D or 3-D artworks with different media (e.g. drawings, photos, paintings, weavings, prints, ceramics and sculpture).

Arts and Civilization

• Name a variety of occupations associated with visual art (e.g. painter, sculptor, architect, art teacher, commercial artist, cartoonist).
• Create a work of art about a celebration or that could be used in a celebration (e.g. masks, costumes, banners, songs, dance).

Language of the Arts

• Demonstrate knowledge of organic/geometric and positive/negative shapes and spaces.
• Demonstrate knowledge of warm/cool colors, intermediate (tertiary) colors, and the 12-color color wheel.
•  Show how using different elements can create contrast.
• Create and/or identify different moods or emotions in works of visual art.
• Demonstrate an understanding of story, feelings, expressive ideas and/or vocabulary shared among the arts.

Creating

• Demonstrate fundamental processes in a variety of art media (e.g. painting, weaving) through observation, research or imagination.
• Create a piece of artwork from direct observation.
• Visually express a verbal or written idea (e.g. illustrate a story/poem, create a poster with a message).

Arts and Civilization

• Create a work of art with cultural characteristics.
• Create a work of art that illustrates people or events from history.

Language of the Arts

• Distinguish between figure and ground.
• Demonstrate light and dark values.
• Demonstrate that a repeated element creates a rhythm.
• Plan and create a work of art that expresses a specific idea, mood or emotion.
• Use and/or compare the vocabulary and tools of visual art and another art form.

Creating

• Execute the same idea in 2-D and 3-D media.
• Demonstrate tools and processes of various media.
• Plan a work of art using background knowledge or research.

Arts and Civilization

• Demonstrate understanding of ways in which the four fine arts play a part in everyday life (e.g. education, architecture, landscape design, political cartoons, fashion design, television, history, and entertainment).
• Demonstrate understanding of how the arts are used in commercial applications (e.g. posters, TV commercials, package design, industrial design, and graphic design).

Create a work of art inspired by a significant artist.

Language of the Arts

• Use parallel and converging lines in linear perspective.
• Demonstrate knowledge of various color schemes: complementary, analogous and monochromatic.
• Use the elements to create unity in an artwork.
• Use movement in an artwork.
• Use elements, principles, and/or expressive qualities shared between two art forms that express a similar idea (e.g. mood in music and art).

Creating

• Select specific tools, materials, and processes to communicate an idea in an artwork.
• Create a realistic 2-D artwork.
• Create an artwork based on a plan incorporating research, innovation and/or problem solving.

Arts and Civilization

• Create an artwork that demonstrates how arts function in history, society and/or everyday life.

Language of the Arts

• Use a specific element or group of elements that create the emphasis in an artwork.
• Analyze a completed work of art noting its components (i.e. elements, organizational principles, expressive ideas; tools and technologies; creative processes).

Creating

• Create unique specific effects using a combination of media, tools and processes (e.g. ruler and pencil to draw in one-point perspective, clay tools to texturize, glue to attach textural objects, computer word programs/fonts and sizes) in an artwork.
• Develop a series of pictures for a story board, cartoon strip or draw with a sequence of actions.
• Create an abstract work using shapes and color to convey mood.

Arts and Civilization

• Create a modern or contemporary piece of artwork.

A Form of Communication

• Reflect on works of art produced
• Examine, describe, discuss and interpret what they see in a range of art
• Understand that a story or message can be conveyed through design

An Expression of Cultures and Diversity

• Understand cultural differences through art expression
• Recognize diversity
• Recognize how society impacts art
• Recognize how art impacts society

Comprised of Technical Skills and Foundations

• Recognize the elements and principles of design
• Understand the differences between different medias and tools
• Exhibit use of different medias and tools
• Recognize various subject areas in art
• Understand how there are various forms of art (i.e., visual, computer, music, dance and drama)

Developing Creativity and Higher Order Thinking

• Demonstrate creativity and show thinking through various projects
• Demonstrate problem-solving skills to distinguish artistic processes
• Understand possible motives for creation of ranges of art