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Knowledge, Skills and Vocabulary: Eighth Grade

 

Key Vocabulary

art                                            constructive critique              materials

artist statement                         criteria                                 media

art making approaches               creativity                              style

artistic practice                          conceptual vocabulary           texture

brainstorm                                 display                                portfolio

context                                      formal vocabulary                subject matter

contemporary artistic practice      image                                3-dimentional            

2-dimentional                             innovative thinking              4-dimentional

critique                                       interpret                   


Knowledge and Skills

 

Students will:

  • Performance Standard One: Students collaboratively examine and respond to a body of contemporary public artworks in order to make interpretations of meaning conveyed through such works and analyze viewer’s interaction with and reaction to community public art.
    • Observe, analyze, respond to and interpret a body of contemporary community public artworks in neighborhood places.
    • Explain how contemporary artwork helps us understand the lives of people in different places, times and cultures.
    • Investigate contemporary artistic practices.

     

  • Performance Standard Two: Students use knowledge gained to experiment, plan, and make their own artworks to express meaning relevant to a theme or idea important to them as a group while demonstrating quality craftsmanship and experimentation with appropriate materials, tools, and equipment.
    • Discuss themes and generate ideas for individual artworks that reflect on and reinforce a collaboratively chosen theme or idea.
    • Explore and experiment with materials and tools.

     

  • Performance Standard Three: Students will write an artist statement to accompany their work and prepare both to display.
    • Use art vocabulary to create an artist statement that explains the choices made to visually communicate their artistic decisions.

     

  • Performance Standard Four: Students collaboratively exhibit their work and develop an exhibition narrative to guide digital and physical viewers.
    • Provide reasons for grouping artworks.
    • Prepare artworks for physical and digital display
    • Guide digital and physical viewers in understanding how the artworks address the theme or idea.

 


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