HS Visual Art Instructional Guide

Express Ideas, Emotion, & Experiences through Art Beginning/Introductory Visual Arts Course

STUDENT EXPECTATIONS:

Apply visual strategies and concepts to design and produce artwork that communicates personal or group ideas, emotion, and experiences. Reflect, analyze and explain how humans view, respond to, and interact with artwork as a form of expression.

Learning Intention and Success Criteria Examples:

Learning Intention:

●​ I am learning to analyze a variety of images from different sources to examine how artists use works of art to communicate information, ideas, or emotions. ●​ I am learning to determine information, ideas, or emotions to convey through a work of art. ●​ I am learning to apply visual organizational strategies to create a work of art or design. ●​ I am learning how altering the style of a piece changes the message or feeling of the art. ●​ I am learning to demonstrate growth in skill development with a variety of materials, methods, and approaches. Success Criteria: I will know I am successful when, ●​ I can identify artistic strategies, concepts, and techniques artists use to create expressive artwork. ●​ I can communicate – either verbally, in writing, or through art – an idea, thought, emotion, and/or experience I desire to express as an artist. ●​ I can propose a design or redesign of an artwork based on themes, ideas, or emotions. ●​ I can create and share artwork that expresses my individual artistic ideas. 1. ​ Learn ways in which artists utilize the elements of art and principles of design along with various techniques, mediums, and styles to express their ideas, thoughts, emotions, or experiences. 2. ​ View examples of diverse works of art that depict a range of ideas, emotions, and experiences. 3. ​ Discuss ideas and impressions of how the viewed works of art convey meaning through visual elements like color, line, texture, and composition. 4. ​ Brainstorm, select, and communicate an idea, thought, emotion, and/or experience you desire to express as an artist. 5. ​ Identify and select preferred artistic techniques and mediums to create artwork that expresses your desired ideas. 6. ​ Create and refine artwork that expresses your desired ideas. 7. ​ Showcase and share your unique, expressive artwork with an audience. Learning Progression Example: