Key Learnings - Art

 

All students:

Study Art Production, Art Criticism, Art History and Aesthetics

Identify and use lines, shapes, colors

Uses lines, shapes and colors to make patterns and show balance

Identify and create landscapes, portraits, still life, and abstract art

Identify and give information about selected artists

Compare and contrast works

Make links between arts

Describe and analyze art works and own work

Explore the arts of different cultures.

Examines work for dominance and rhythm.

Justifies preferences in art works.

 

KINDERGARTEN

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories

• Know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas

• Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning

• Know that the visual arts have both history and specific relationships to various cultures

• Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places

• Describe how people’s experiences influence the development of specific artworks

• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

FIRST GRADE

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories

• Know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas

• Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning

• Know that the visual arts have both history and specific relationships to various cultures

• Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places

• Describe how people’s experiences influence the development of specific artworks

• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

SECOND GRADE

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories

• Know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas

• Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning

• Know that the visual arts have both history and specific relationships to various cultures

• Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places

• Describe how people’s experiences influence the development of specific artworks

• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

THIRD GRADE

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories

• Know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas

• Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning

• Know that the visual arts have both history and specific relationships to various cultures

• Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places

• Describe how people’s experiences influence the development of specific artworks

• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

FOURTH GRADE

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories

• Know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas

• Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning

• Know that the visual arts have both history and specific relationships to various cultures

• Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places

• Describe how people’s experiences influence the development of specific artworks

• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

FIFTH GRADE

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Select media, techniques and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

• Employ organizational structures and analyze their effectiveness in the communication of ideas

• Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artwork

• Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural context 6

• Analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art

• Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures

• Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

SIXTH GRADE

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Select media, techniques and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

• Employ organizational structures and analyze their effectiveness in the communication of ideas

• Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artwork

• Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural context

• Analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art

• Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures

• Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

SEVENTH GRADE

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Select media, techniques and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

• Employ organizational structures and analyze their effectiveness in the communication of ideas

• Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artwork

• Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural context

• Analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art

• Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures 7

• Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

EIGHTH GRADE

Art - Consult the NAD Fine Arts Curriculum Guide for suggested activities to meet these objectives.

• Select media, techniques and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

• Employ organizational structures and analyze their effectiveness in the communication of ideas

• Use subjects, themes and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artwork

• Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural context

• Analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art

• Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures

• Describe ways in which the principle