Art Appreciation

Recommended Prerequisite: None

Grade Level: 5

SDE Course Code: 0553

MNPS Course Code: ART0553Y

Course Description

This course will help the student to understand art from a historical and aesthetic perspective. Two and three dimensional art works will be explored. This course is only offered at Wharton Arts Magnet at this time.

Course of Study

• Understanding media, techniques, and processes
• Students describe how different materials, techniques and processes cause different responses.
• Students describe different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories.
• Using knowledge of structures and functions
• Students know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas.
• Students describe how different expressive features and organizational principles cause different responses.
• Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas
• Students explore and understand prospective content for works of art.
• Students will identify symbols and ideas artists use to communicate meaning.
• Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
• Students know that the visual arts have both a history and specific relationships to various cultures
• Students identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places.
• Students demonstrate how history, culture and the visual arts can influence each other in studying works of art.
• Students compare and contrast contemporary art works from 1850s to present.
• Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of the work of others
• Students understand that there are various purposes for creating works of visual art.
• Students describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks.
• Students understand there are different responses to specific artworks.
• Communicates art concepts through the domains of writing: descriptive, persuasive, analytical/expository, practical and creative.
• Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
• Students understand similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.
• Students identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
• Students use technology to research visual art.

Standards

MNPS Visual Art Standards

http://www.mnps.org

State of Tennessee Visual Art Standards

http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/standards

Textbooks

No MNPS purchased textbook

Resources

www.naea-reston.org