FINE ART STANDARDS

ISBE - Illinois Fine Art Standards

CREATING

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Enduring Understanding: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed. Essential Questions: (a) What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? (b) What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? (c) How does collaboration expand the creative process?

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches. Essential Questions: (a) How do artists work? (b) How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? (c) How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?

Anchor Standard 3: Revise, refine, and complete artistic work.

Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time. Essential Questions: (a) What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? (b) How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? (c) How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?

PRESENTING

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Enduring Understanding: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects, artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation. Essential Questions: (a) How are artworks cared for and by whom? (b) What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? (c) Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks and select them for presentation?

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Enduring Understanding: Artists, curators, and others consider a variety of factors and methods, including evolving technologies, when preparing and refining artwork for display or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect artwork. Essential Questions: (a) What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? (b) How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? (c) What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Enduring Understanding: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivation of appreciation and understanding. Essential Questions: (a) What is an art museum? (b) How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? (c) How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented cultivate appreciation and understanding?

RESPONDING

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Enduring Understanding: Individual aesthetic and empathic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments. Essential Questions: (a) How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? (b) How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? (c) What can we learn from our responses to art?

Anchor Standard 8: Construct meaningful interpretations of artistic work.

Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism. Essential Questions: (a) What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? (b) How can the viewer “read” a work of art as text? (c) How does knowing and using visual art vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria. Essential Questions: (a) How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? (b) How and why might criteria vary? (c) How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?

CONNECTING

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Enduring Understanding: Through art making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences. Essential Questions: (a) How does engaging in creating art enrich people’s lives? (b) How does making art attune people to their surroundings? (c) How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art making?

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art. Essential Questions: (a) How does art help us understand the lives of people in different times, places, and cultures? (b) How is art used to impact the views of a society? (c) How does art preserve aspects of life?

Source - https://www.isbe.net/Documents/Visual-Arts-Standards.pdf

National Core Standards (above) https://www.nationalartsstandards.org/