Standard 1: Visual and Performing Arts

 

Mission: The arts contribute to the achievement of social, economic and human growth by fostering creativity and providing opportunities for expression beyond the limits of language.

 

 

Standard 1.4 Critique

All students will develop, apply and reflect upon knowledge of the process of critique.

 

Big Idea: Through the critical process, students formulate judgments regarding artistic and aesthetic merits of artwork.

1.4 A. Knowledge

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

- When is art criticism vital and when is it beside the point?

.- The critical process of observing, describing, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating leads to informed judgments regarding the relative merits of artworks.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:
1.    Examine the artwork from a variety of historical periods in both western and non-western culture(s).  
2.    Categorize the artistic subject, the formal structure, and the principal elements of art used in exemplary works of art.  
3.    Determine the influence of tradition on arts experience, as an arts creator, performer and arts consumer.  

1.4 B. Skills

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

- When is art criticism vital and when is it beside the point?

.- The critical process of observing, describing, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating leads to informed judgments regarding the relative merits of artworks.

Cumulative Progress Indicators

Comments and Examples

By the end of Grade 12:  
1.  Develop criteria for evaluating art in a specific domain and use the criteria to evaluate one’s personal work and that of their peers, using positive commentary for critique.  

2.    Provide examples of how critique may affect the creation and/or modification of an existing or new work of art

 

 

 

 

 

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