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Mt. Hope High School

The Arts: Visual Arts

    The standards on this page come from The National Standards for Arts Education, developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations. (There are additional standards for Dance, Music, and Theatre.) The standards document includes the following description:

    The standards establish "proficient" and "advanced" achievement standards for grades 9-12 in each discipline. The proficient level is intended for students who have completed courses of study involving relevant skills and knowledge in that discipline for one to two years beyond grade 8. The advanced level is intended for students who have completed courses of study involving relevant skills and knowledge in that discipline for three to four years beyond grade 8. Students at the advanced level are expected to achieve the standards established for the proficient as well as the advanced levels. Every student is expected to achieve the  proficient level in at least one arts discipline by the time he or she graduates from high school. 


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Visual Arts Standards
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  • Summary
     
Content Standard #1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes 
Achievement Standard, Proficient:
  • Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks 
  • Students conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use 
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium 
  • Students initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation 
Content Standard #2: Using knowledge of structures and functions 
Achievement Standard, Proficient:
  • Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art 
  • Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions 
  • Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems 
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students demonstrate the ability to compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and to defend personal evaluations of these perspectives 
  • Students create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions
Content Standard #3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas 
Achievement Standard, Proficient:
  • Students reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture 
  • Students apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in their artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life 
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
 
  • Students describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others 
  • Students evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used in the students' works and in significant works by others 
Content Standard #4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures 
Achievement Standard, Proficient:
  • Students differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art 
  • Students describe the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places 
  • Students analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using such conclusions to inform their own art making
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, purposes, and critical models, showing understanding of the work of critics, historians, aestheticians, and artists 
  • Students analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations of meaning 
Content Standard #5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others
Achievement Standard, Proficient:
  • Students identify intentions of those creating artworks, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of purposes in particular works 
  • Students describe meanings of artworks by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts 
  • Students reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art 
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions 
Content Standard #6: Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines 
 Achievement Standard, Proficient:
  • Students compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creation and types of analysis 
  • Students compare characteristics of visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities or sciences 
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students synthesize the creative and analytical principles and techniques of the visual arts and selected other arts disciplines, the humanities, or the sciences