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BIG IDEA/Essential QUestions
BIG IDEA/Essential QUestions
Modules 1-3: Essential questions
Modules 1-3: Essential questions
What specific qualities can be identified across different types of cultural expression that formulate a distinct style or movement?
How do social and political forces influence artistic expression?
How do artistic and literary creations reflect elements of the biography of the creator?
What sorts of social, political and cultural forces lead to a change in ubiquitous and popular aesthetics? Why and when do movements change?
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS
Modules 1-3
Modules 1-3
Aesthetic movements are defined by specific characteristics found commonly in different forms of creation: visual art, sculpture, architecture, literature, poetry, music and others.
The aesthetic qualities across culture that define a movement are connected to social and political forces at work in a given society.
The biographies of creative people reflect their interaction with aesthetic forces, as well as the social and political world they live in.
The personal biographies of creative people also provide insight into what they create and why.
Political, social and religious forces provide the landscape and influence for which people express themselves creatively.
The common characteristics defining an aesthetic period movement coincide with the social and political zeitgeist.
The creators who have the greatest influence are most often the most significant.
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