CONTROVERSIAL ART UNIT
Learning Objectives / Expectations
A. Creating And Presenting:
A1. The Creative Process: apply the creative process to create a variety of art works, individually and/or collaboratively
A1.1: use various strategies, individually and/or collaboratively, with increasing skill to generate, explore, and elaborate on original ideas and to develop, reflect on, and revise detailed plans for the creation of art works that address a variety of challenges (Studio: students will use skills taught in proportion and gesture drawing lessons, to complete a sustained drawing of a nude figure, addressing the issue of what makes a work of art controversial)
A1.2: apply, with increasing fluency and flexibility, the appropriate stages of the creative process to produce two and three-dimensional art works using a variety of traditional and contemporary media (Studio: students will be creating gesture, and sustained pose drawings from graphite and charcoal)
A2. The Elements and Principles of Design: apply the elements and principles of design to create art works for the purpose of self-expression and to communicate ideas, information, and/or messages
A2.2: apply the elements and principles of design as well as a wide range of art-making conventions with increasing skill and creativity to produce art works that comment and/or communicate a clear point of view of a variety of issues. (Studio: creation of a life drawing in relation to the social issues of censorship and controversial art)
A3. Production and Presentation: produce art works, using a variety of media/materials and traditional and emerging technologies, tools, and techniques, and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of ways of presenting their works and the works of others.
A3.2: use with increasing skill a wide variety of traditional and current materials, technologies, techniques, and tools to create original art works for a variety of purposes and audiences (Studio: students will create a life drawing, keeping in mind the audience that will view; and experiment with and applying a variety of techniques using traditional art materials)
B. Reflecting, Responding and Analysing
B1. The Critical Analysis Process: demonstrate an understanding of the critical analysis process by examining, interpreting, evaluating, and reflecting on various art works.
B1.1: demonstrate the ability to support their initial responses to a variety of art works with informed understanding of the works’ artistic form and function (Art History: students will describe their initial reactions to historical and contemporary examples of controversial art discussed in the lesson, and how specific aspects of the work’s content, formal qualities and media inform that response)
B1.3: explain in detail, with reference to a variety of historical and contemporary art works how knowledge of a work’s cultural and historical context, achieved through extensive research, has clarified and enriched their understanding and interpretation of a works intent and meaning (Art History: students will use samples of work shown to be able to discuss at the end of the lesson, how knowledge of the cultural and historical content has effected their interpretation and understanding of the work’s meaning and intent and whether or not they fit the category of controversial in relation to the time frame created and within today’s society)
B1.4: describe in detail and reflect on with increasing insight the qualities of their art works and the works of others, and evaluate the effectiveness of these works using a wide variety of criteria (Art History: students will be able to discuss the effectiveness of the works shown and discuss attributes of controversial art and what makes the works effective/ineffective in the messages they are conveying).
B2. Art, Society, and Values: demonstrate an understanding of how art works reflect the society in which they were created, and of how they can affect both social and personal values.
B2.1: analyse on the basis of research, the function and social impact of different kinds of art works in both past and present societies (Art History: students will examine and analyse historical and contemporary examples of controversial art and their impacts on the society in which they were created, and the reaction to them within today’s society)
C. Foundations
C1. Terminology: demonstrates an understanding of, and use correct terminology when referring to, elements, principles, and other components related to visual arts.
C1.1: extend their understanding of the elements and principles of design, and use terminology related to these elements and principles correctly and appropriately when creating or analysing a variety of works (Art History Lesson: students will be able to analyse works and elements that make them controversial)
C1.2: explain in detail terminology related to a wide variety of techniques, materials, and tools (Studio: variety of media, techniques, and tools will be used within Gesture drawing and Sustained pose)
C1.3: explain in detail the stages of the creative process and the critical analysis process, and explain, using appropriate terminology, how these processes contribute to the successful creation and analysis of art works (Studio: through stages of lesson including gesture drawing, ideal proportions lesson, sustained drawing and critique students will work through the creative process. Art History: with the examination of various historical and contemporary works of art, students will work through stages of the critical analysis process.)
C2. Conventions and Techniques: demonstrate an understanding of the conventions and techniques used in the creation of visual art works.
C2.1: extend their understanding of a wide variety of techniques that artists use to achieve a range of specific effects (Art History: during discussion students may relate their understanding of techniques to examples show when discussing elements of artworks they consider controversial)
C2.2: extend their understanding of the variety of conventions used in visual art, and explain how they are used in a variety of art works (Art History: during discussion students may relate their understanding of conventions to examples shown when discussing elements of artworks they consider controversial)
C3. Responsible Practices: demonstrate an understanding of responsible practices related to visual arts.
C3.1: demonstrates an understanding of legal and ethical issues related to the appropriation of virtual, intellectual, or physical property, and apply legal and ethical practices when creating and displaying art works (Art History: through the examination of controversial art works, students ill learn legal and ethical practices of displaying art works. Studio: through the creation of a drawing of a nude model, students will learn the ethical practices of creating and displaying art works.)
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