STANDARD 1.4: Visual and Performing Arts

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 2:
1. Explain that critique is a positive tool.
2. Define the basic concepts of color, line, shape, form, texture, space and rhythm.
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 2:
1. Orally communicate opinion regarding dance, music, theater, and visual art based on observation.
2. Express how individuals can have different opinions toward works of art.

Link to Standard 1.4 Grade 3-4

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