Students will be able to examine a work of art and write …
Students will be able to examine a work of art and write a descriptive analysis about it; explore the differences between objective and subjective writing about an art object; consider the context in which a work of art was created, and develop opinions about a work of art; and discuss and reflect upon the process through which their first impressions of a work of art changed, after acquiring contextual knowledge about it.
Students will be able to observe a watercolor that depicts a historical …
Students will be able to observe a watercolor that depicts a historical narrative of a landmark in a dramatic setting; practice and use various watercolor techniques; and create a watercolor of a landmark in a dramatic setting.
Students will be able to discuss the growth of suburban development in …
Students will be able to discuss the growth of suburban development in the United States after World War II; write a persuasive essay about suburban development in California; and design a plan for a utopian and environmentally-friendly housing development.
Students will become familiar with the term "landscape" and will revisit the …
Students will become familiar with the term "landscape" and will revisit the terms "foreground," "middle ground," and "background." Students will consider how an artist's painting technique impacts a viewer's interpretation of a painting.
Students will be able to compare portrayals of individual soldiers to depictions …
Students will be able to compare portrayals of individual soldiers to depictions of battle scenes and discuss the impact of each on viewers; analyze rhetorical strategies in two newspaper articles about a current war; write two different newspaper articles about a current war from different viewpoints; and create digitally or manually manipulated photographs.
Students will be introduced to artworks that emphasize ideas over visual forms …
Students will be introduced to artworks that emphasize ideas over visual forms and consider how these works fit into or challenge their definitions of art; explore different methods of using language in art; consider the role of artists in making language-based Conceptual art.
Students will be introduced to performance art and will consider its relationship …
Students will be introduced to performance art and will consider its relationship to more traditional forms of visual art, such as painting and sculpture; consider the different ways in which performance art is documented; explore artists' construction of identities in performance and their adoption of signature materials and props.
Students will be introduced to the notion of ephemeral and site-specific art …
Students will be introduced to the notion of ephemeral and site-specific art and will consider the role of the photo-documentation of these works; explore works that challenge traditional notions of where art should be displayed; be introduced to artists' strategies of institutional critique.
Students will consider artists' choices related to materials, line, color, and scale; …
Students will consider artists' choices related to materials, line, color, and scale; consider artists' motivations for using repeated forms; compare and contrast industrially fabricated works of art with those made by hand.
Students will consider the challenges of representing identity visually; consider text and …
Students will consider the challenges of representing identity visually; consider text and elements of popular culture in an image; continue to consider the role of drawing as a political medium.
Students will be able to use English–language vocabulary to describe what they …
Students will be able to use English–language vocabulary to describe what they see in a work of art; create a collage that communicates their experience of the urban environment; and write about their collage, articulating what they were trying to express through visual images using English–language vocabulary.
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students participate in a …
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students participate in a class critique of the symbolic sculptures they created. They critique the work of their peers by responding to questions about the symbolic content and applying criteria for sculpture developed in Lesson 1.
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students paint the same …
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students paint the same still-life arrangement from Lesson 2, but in an opaque medium. They compare similarities and differences of working with the transparent and opaque mediums and refine their artist's statements.
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students display the two …
This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students display the two still-life paintings that they created in previous lessons, along with their artist's statements. They write a review of a peer's work and discuss all of the paintings in a group critique.
Students will examine sixteen paintings by George Baselitz. Students will describe the …
Students will examine sixteen paintings by George Baselitz. Students will describe the works and discuss details, the reasoning and meaning behind painting upside down, techniques and methods required to work in this manner, and the process behind the series. Students will also analyze the titles and subtitles Baselitz used and the meaning or implications associated with each. Students will compose a dialogue between two characters in the paintings and will experiment with painting with hands and feet in the style of Baselitz.
Students will view and discuss Cy Twombly's "Nine Discourses on Commodus", research …
Students will view and discuss Cy Twombly's "Nine Discourses on Commodus", research the Roman Emperor Commodus, investigate Twombly's process and technique, and consider the difference between works in a "series" created as "one in a sequence" rather than "stand alones". Students will also discuss how music may inspire visual arts; make paintings based on phrases of poetry; and debate the artistic value of graffiti.
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