Student Understandings
Students will:
- Understand how to apply critical thinking skills to interpret, analyze, and problem solve
- Understand and apply media, technique, and art processes
- Understand what makes various organizational elements and principles of design effective and/or ineffective in the communication of ideas
- Understand how to create and communicate a range of subject matters, symbols, and ideas utilizing the knowledge of structures and functions of visual arts
- Understand and distinguish the multiple purposes for creating works of art
- Understand how to utilize the interrelated elements of art and the principles of design
- Understands and uses information from historical and cultural themes, trends, styles, periods of art, and artists
- Understands the role of the artist and the function of art in different periods of time and in different cultures to improve the communication of ideas
- Understands how knowledge, skills, and attitudes gained from visual arts can enhance and deepen understanding of life
- Understands the skills artists’ use in various careers and how they can be developed in art school or college or through internships