Grades 9 - 12 National Visual Arts Standards
1. Content Standard: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes Achievement Standard, Proficient:
Students select media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to their media, techniques, and processes they use
Achievement Standards, Advanced: c. communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium d. initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation 2. Content Standard: 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 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems
Achievement Standard, Advanced: d. 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
e. create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions 3. Content Standard: Choosing and evaluation 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 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in their artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
Students c. describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why are of value in artwork and in the work of others d. 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
4. Content Standard: 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 describe the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times and places 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 d. analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, purposes, and critical models, showing understanding of the work of critics, historians, aestheticians, and artists e. analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and mong cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations of meaning 5. Content Standard: Reflecting upon 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 work describe meanings of artworks by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
Students d. correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions 6. Content Standard: 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 there are used in creation and types of analysis 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 c. synthesize the creative and analytical principles and techniques of the visual arts and selected other disciplines, the humanities, or the sciences
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