Art Resources
Anchor Standard #1 - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Creative and innovative thinking are essential life skills to be developed.
Essential Questions:
What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creative, innovative, and inventive thinking?
What encourages people to take creative risks?
How does collaboration expand the creative process?
How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design?
Anchor Standard #2 - Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
Enduring Understanding: Using art elements and design principles, artists/designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making processes, while balancing experimentation, freedom, and responsibility in developing and creating artworks.
Essential Questions:
How do artists/designers work and reflect on the direction of their work?
How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
How do objects, artifacts, places, and design shape lives and communities?
Anchor Standard #3 - Refine and complete artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Artists/designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work.
Essential Questions:
What role does perseverance play in revising, refining, and developing work?
Considering art forms and careers, how do artists/designers grow and become accomplished?
How do artists/designers create works of art or design that communicate effectively?
Anchor Standard #4 - Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for performance, presentation, and/or production
Enduring Understanding: Artists/designers consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects, artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Essential Questions:
Why do people value objects, artifacts and fine artworks, and select them for presentation?
What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation?
How are artworks cared for, and by whom?
Anchor Standard #5 - Develop and refine artistic work for performance, presentation, and/or production
Enduring Understanding: Artists/designers, curators, and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and preservation.
Essential Questions:
What does the role of revision play in creating artwork?
What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation?
What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a collection?
Anchor Standard #6 - Perform, present, and/or produce artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists/designers, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
Essential Questions:
What is the purpose of exhibiting art?
How do collected, preserved, and presented works cultivate appreciation and understanding of beliefs, values and experiences?
Anchor Standard #7 - Recognize and analyze artistic work, including those from diverse cultural traditions
Enduring Understanding: Engaging in and reflecting on art supports understanding and appreciation to self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments. Art/design and images influence understanding of and responses to the world.
Essential Questions:
How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art?
How does learning about art impact how we interpret the world?
What can we learn from our responses to art?
Anchor Standard #8 - Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into the meaning of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism/critical inquiry.
Essential Questions:
What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism?
How can the viewer “read” a work of art as text?
How does learning and using art vocabulary (i.e.. elements, principles, techniques, genres) help us understand and interpret works of art?
Anchor Standard #9 - Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on varied criteria.
Essential Questions:
How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art?
How and why might criteria vary?
How can people appreciate and respect a work of art aside from personal preference?
How does collaboratively reflecting on artwork help us experience it more completely?
Anchor Standard #10 - Relate, synthesize, and express both knowledge and personal experiences as a way to participate in the arts
Enduring Understanding: Participation in the arts encourages people to connect experiences to construct meaning.
Essential Question:
How does participating in and with art enrich people’s lives and raise awareness of community and environment?
Anchor Standard #11 - Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understanding of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Questions:
How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures?
How is art used to impact the views of a society?
How does art influence, enhance, and preserve aspects of life?