Art


 * Subject: Visual Art - Grade 8 **



** Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks: **

**__HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS__ //Students understand the impact of visual art on the history, culture and society from which it emanates. The y understan d th e cultural, socia l an d politica l force s that , i n turn , shap e visua l ar t communicatio n and expression. Students identify the significant contributions of visual artists to cultural heritage. They analyze the historical, cultural, social and political contexts that influence the function and role of visual art in the lives of people.// ** cultural, historical and social contexts. 1. Explain how social, cultural and political factors affect what artists, architects or designers create. 2. Discuss the role and function of art objects (e.g., furniture, tableware, jewelry and pottery) within cultures. **Benchmar k B: **Creat e a wor k o f ar t whic h incorporate s th e styl e o r characteristic s o f artwor k fro m a culture other than their own. 3. Identify artworks that make a social or political comment and explain the messages they convey. 5. Consider and discuss how contemporary artworks contribute to and influence the future of art. ** Benchmar k D:  **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Researc h culturall y o r historicall y significan t work s o f ar t an d discus s thei r role s i n society, history, culture or politics. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman;">6. Relate major works of art throughout time to the appropriate historical art movement.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Benchmark A: **<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Compare and contrast the distinctive characteristics of art forms from various

CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND COMMUNICATION __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">**//Student s creat e artwork s tha t demonstrat e understandin g o f materials, processes , tools , media , techniques and available technology. They understand how to use art elements, principles and images to communicate their ideas in a variety of visual forms.//** <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">1. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman;">Identify and apply criteria to assess content and craftsmanship in their works. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman;">2. Demonstrate an enhanced level of craftsmanship in original two- and three-dimensional art products. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman;">3. Experiment with style and demonstrate how the same subject can be portrayed in different ways (e.g., a self-portrait interpreted in expressionism and through abstraction). 4. Demonstrat e increase d technica l skil l b y usin g mor e comple x processes to design and create two- and three-dimensional artworks. 5. Explain and defend their artistic decisions using appropriate visual art vocabulary.
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 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark A: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Apply knowledge of materials, tools, media, techniques and processes to communicate subject matter, themes or ideas in a variety of visual forms.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark B: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Create two- and three-dimensional original artwork that demonstrates personal visual expression and communication.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark C: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Achieve artistic purpose and communicate intent by selection and use of appropriate media.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark D: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Us e current, availabl e technolog y t o refin e a n ide a an d creat e a n original , imaginativ e work of art.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark E: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Identify and explain reasons to support artistic decisions in the creation of art work.

**__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ANALYZING AND RESPONDING __**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> 1. Observe a selected work of art and explain how the artist's choice of media relates to the ideas and images in the work. 2. Identify professions that use art criticism (e.g., artist, museum curator, art critic and art appraiser). 3. Explain how personal experience influences their opinions of artworks. 4. Analyze and discuss qualities in the artwork of peers to better understand the qualities in their own artworks.
 * //Students identify and discriminate themes, media, subject matter and formal technical and expressive aspect s i n work s o f art . The y understan d an d us e th e vocabular y o f ar t criticis m t o describ e visua l features, analyz e relationship s an d interpre t meaning s i n work s o f art . Student s mak e judgment s abou t th e quality of works of art using the appropriate criteria.//**
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark A: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Apply the strategies <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">of art criticism to describe, analyze and interpret selected works of art.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark B: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Present and support an individual interpretation of a work of art.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark C: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Establish and use criteria for making judgments about works of art.
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VALUING THE ARTS/AESTHETIC REFLECTION __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">**//<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Students understand why people value visual art. They present their beliefs about the nature and significanc e o f selecte d artwork s an d th e reason s fo r holdin g thes e beliefs. Student s reflec t o n an d respect diverse points of view about artworks and artifacts .//** 1. Recogniz e ho w reflectio n ca n chang e belief s abou t th e natur e an d value of art. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; msobidifontfamily: Georgia; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: Georgia; msolist: Ignore;">2. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Articulate an understanding of different aesthetic theories (e.g., formal, expressive and contextual) related to viewing and interpreting artworks. 3. Compar e thei r viewpoint s abou t a selecte d wor k o f ar t wit h a n ar t critic's viewpoint of the same work.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmar k A: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Demonstrat e aestheti c inquir y an d reflectio n skill s whe n participatin g i n discussion s about the nature and value of art.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark B: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Analyze diverse points of view about artworks and explain the factors that shape various perspectives.
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CONNECTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS AND APPLICATIONS __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">**//Students connect and apply their learning of visual art to the study of other arts areas and disciplines outsid e th e arts. The y understan d relationship s betwee n an d amon g concept s an d idea s tha t ar e common across subjects in the curriculum. Students recognize the importance of lifelong learning and experience in visual art.//** 1. Demonstrat e differen t visua l form s o f representatio n fo r th e sam e topic or theme (e.g., expressive, graphic and scientific). 2. Achieve an effective balance between creating computer-generated images and drawing their own original images. 3. Collaborate (e.g., with peers or a community artist) to create a thematic work that incorporates visual art. 4. Identify how aspects of culture influence ritual and social artwork. 5. Explor e way s t o communicat e an d suppor t th e importanc e o f ar t i n their communities (e.g., becom e a n art s advocate , a voluntee r o r membe r o f a professional arts organization or patron of the arts).
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark A: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Demonstrate the role of visual art in solving an interdisciplinary problem.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark B: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Apply and combine visual art, research and technology skills to communicate ideas in visual form.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmark C: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Use key concepts, issues and themes to connect visual art to various content areas.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Benchmar k D: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Palatino Linotype';">Us e word s an d image s t o explai n th e rol e o f visua l ar t i n communit y an d cultura l traditions and events.

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 * Technology:**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt;">[|**http://www.impressionniste.net/museums_exhibitions.htm**] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> [|**http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Impressionists/index.html**] [|**http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm**]. <span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">**Students will explore the art style of Impressionism by taking photographs of home or school to turn into Impressionist works of art by using filters in Photoshop Elements. Students will illustrate their understanding of Impressionism through the different imaging techniques they choose to use.** <span style="font-size: 6pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="font-size: 6pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">**1.** Students will be introduced to the art style of Impressionism through class discussion and by searching the website databases. <span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">• In what way is your artwork in the style of the impressionist painters? • What colors and hues predominate in your artwork? • Would those colors change if you shot your image earlier or later in the day?
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Computer Lab with 25 computers **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Digital Cameras **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Microsoft Word **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Adobe Photoshop Elements **
 * **iMovie ( [] )**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Video Projectors **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
 * __WEB SITES__:**
 * <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #76923c; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Description: **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #76923c; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
 * 2.** The class will discuss the characteristics of impressionistic art, the artists of this area and their culture.
 * 3.** Students will take pictures of a landscape or still life with their digital camera.
 * 4.** Students will load their digital photographs onto the computer and save them in a file.
 * 5.** The students will access their photographs through Adobe Photoshop Elements.
 * 6.** The students will change brush sizes and apply filters. The students can experiment with the brush size, sharpness, and brush type settings. The artistic filters that render impressionistic qualities include dry brush, smudge stick, and palette knife. The students are free to experiment and should save multiple copies and variations.
 * 7.** Each student will choose three images.
 * 8.** The students will collaborate on making a slide show video including everyone’s impressionistic images. The students will use iMovie to do this. They can add music or words to it if they choose.
 * 9.** Students will print out 1 or 2 copies of their images. There will be an exhibit with these images hung in a studio. The iMovie slide show will be projected onto screens in the studio.
 * 10.** There will be a discussion in class about everyone’s images. The students will ask each other: <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msospacerun: yes;">

<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #76923c; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">**Supporting Research:** <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #76923c; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> <span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">According to Bruce Buchanan in //Technology and the Arts//, digital cameras, scanners, and graphics programs open up new opportunities for students to be creative. “Using technology. . . helps art teachers get the attention of a plugged-in generation of youngsters who were raised on computers, play “Guitar Hero” games, and create visual arts and music using software like GarageBand or iPhoto. <span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Technology can be the tools used to create art, like paint, or brushes. In //Integrating Technology into the Art Curriculum// by Harold Olejarz, two sculptors, Bruce Beasley and Kenneth Snelson, use computer technology to develop three-dimensional sculptures. And, Janet Ashford discusses how software and hardware can be used to create digital watercolors in //Watercolors Without Water//. Technology has provided artist with new tools in the past. Artists use the new technology and consequently their art is changed by it. A new means of expression is created. <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> According to Jason Ohler in The 4th R, we need to teach students multi-media skills. He talks of watching a student struggling to create a multimedia presentation. After watching this student for a while, he realized that the student wasn’t struggling with the technology, but was struggling with the aesthetics. “He was trying to create art, and no one had shown him how.” <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> He says that multimedia communication has become ubiquitous. The Internet sends multimedia communi-cations throughout the world. We’re shifting from a text-centric way of communicating to one filled with pictures, diagrams, sound, and movement. Design skills, graphic literacy skills, and skills that consist of putting pictures and words together in a presentation are what the students need to know. “Once <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">we better understand how video, sound, music, and animation communicate ideas effectively, and once the technology that supports these activities becomes more affordable and less specialized, art will become the fundamental literacy for understanding both old and new media.” He wants art to be the fourth R, the fourth literacy. The other R’s help students to learn and express themselves in specific content areas. Art is the way in which we communicate in this multimedia world. “As with all changes in education, the Internet turns out to be not just a revolution in media and methods, but in literacy as well. Kids must become fully literate, and that literacy must include art, the fourth R.” Intertwining technology with art to create, or compose, communication will facilitate this literacy.

<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #76923c; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #76923c; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">**Tried & True or New & Innovative:** <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #76923c; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt;"> <span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This is a tried and true and new and innovative lesson. This is a tried and true lesson because students have been using the Internet to perform research for many years, as well as using Microsoft Word to type papers. The students should feel comfortable and very familiar with these tasks. Another tried and true part of the lesson is using digital cameras. Students have a lot of experience using digital cameras. The new and innovative part of the lesson is using Adobe Photoshop Elements and iMovie from Apple. The students probably have not used Photoshop Elements software before. They probably have not applied various tools and filters to photographs with the idea of emulating a certain art style. Also, students are probably not accustomed to using iMovie from Apple to create and edit a slide show. Because of this there will have to be reference materials available, as well as a tutorial online. Working as a group in a collaborative effort for their final art product might be new to them also. Many times in an art class students just work on their own individual projects. In this lesson students will be involved with everyone else’s images to make one collaborative piece of art. By doing this, students will gain a better insight into the Impressionist style of painting. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #76923c; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; text-align: left; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; msoansilanguage: EN;">