Visual Art Objectives:
Identify words of art by various major artists, art styles, historical backgrounds and cultural influences
Analyze how artists use materials and ideas in creating art
Identify, understand, and use the elements of visual art including; line, shape, color, texture, space, form, and value
Begin to perceive and use the principles of art
Demonstrate the ability to use the tools, basic skills, and techniques of a variety of materials and processes to produce original works of art
Demonstrate proper use and care of art materials
Art Teaching and Learning Benchmarks:
Learn how line can express emotion
Understand and demonstrate the difference between asymmetry and symmetry
Build on previous color theory knowledge by defining and utilizing tertiary colors
Understand and identify positive and negative space as well as foreground, middle ground and background
Use a variety of textures in a drawing
Create a work of art from direct observation
Use found objects in the print making process
Differentiate between two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) art by working with paper mache
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