Alabama Learning Exchange Teaching standards Grades 6-8, Visual Arts

Arts Education
(2006
Grade(s! 6 - 8
Visual Arts
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1.) Create works of art utilizing a variety of traditional and nontraditional media and techniques.
Examples: tornpaper collage! weaving! wire sculpture! clay relief
% "pplying steps artists use in the production of art! including conceptualizing ideas and
forms! refining ideas and forms! and reflecting on and evaluating #oth the process of
production and the product
% "pplying the elements of art and principles of design to the production of two and three
dimensional artwork
Examples:
twodimensionalmonochromatic paintings! found or natural o#$ect prints! textureru##ing
compositions%
threedimensionalpapier-m ch masks! clay whistles
% Creating original multimedia works of art
Examples: television #roadcasts! digital imaging! multimedia presentations
% Creating original works of art using o#servational skills
Examples: drawing a shoe% painting a still life% creating a landscape in mixedmedia% creating
timed! gesture studies of a figure
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Grade(s! 6 - 8
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&.) 'roduce works of art using one and twopoint perspectives.
Example: drawing a cityscape or still life of geometric shapes that uses a vanishing point and
horizontal line
Arts Education (2006
Grade(s! 6 - 8
Visual Arts
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(.) "pply appropriate voca#ulary in discussing a work of art.
Examples: discussing the use of cool colors! organic shapes! and flat perspective in )arc
Chagall*s Green Violinist% explaining movement in +iacomo ,alla*s Dynamism of a Dog on a
Leash
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Grade(s! 6 - 8
Visual Arts
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-.) .iscuss strengths and weaknesses of a personal portfolio or other work of art.
% .efining the fourstep process of critical analysis! including descri#ing what is seen!
analyzing how each artist arranged the elements of art and principles of design! interpreting
expressive intent and purpose! and $udging the effectiveness of communication
Example: analyzing )iriam /chapiro*s The Poet #2 #y asking 01hat do 2 see in the
painting3!0 04ow did the artist organize the elements of art and principles of design3!0 01hat
is the message that the artist is trying to convey3!0 and 04ow effective is the artwork30
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5.) .efine the appropriate technical terminology in creating a work of art.
Example: explaining the terms greenware and bisque-fired when discussing the creation of a
piece of pottery
Arts Education (2006
Grade(s! 6 - 8
Visual Arts
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6.) .iscuss ways in which the su#$ect matter of other disciplines is connected with the visual
arts.
Examples: connection of plants and animals in a rainforest to 4enri 7ousseau*s The
Peaceable ingdom% relationship of music to 1assily 8andinsky*s paintings% relationship of
measurement! scales! and proportion to Chuck Close*s portraits
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9.) .escri#e historical and cultural influences on works of art.
Examples:
historicalcreating a computer presentation depicting works of art of the Civil 1ar!
culturalcomparing the impact of racism in :aith 7inggold*s !lag "uilt and 1illiam
;ohnson*s #oon $%er &arlem
% 2dentifying various art periods and movements
Examples:
periodscomparing )ayan temples and Egyptian pyramids or 7enaissance and twentieth
century paintings!
movementscomparing 2mpressionism and Cu#ism or /urrealism and 7ealism
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