New Brunswick - Visual Arts 10

Strand: Create

Big Idea: Exploration and Technique

Skill Descriptor:

Select and experiment with materials and techniques to support decisions about art making practice.    

Achievement Indicators:

Demonstrate increasing complexity in use of elements of art and principles of design through artwork created.

Manipulate art materials to express ideas.

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Big Idea: Application and Product

Skill Descriptor:

Create expressive works in visual arts for specific audiences and purposes using a variety of art media.   

Achievement Indicators:

Create work that shares ideas and voice through direct observation, experience, and imagination.

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Strand: Connect

Big Idea: Art and Culture

Skill Descriptor:

Investigate the role of visual art in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture.   

Achievement Indicators:

Examine the role and influence of visual images in daily experience.

Discuss how art and interpretation emerges from human needs, values, beliefs, ideas, and experiences.

Examine characteristics of artwork from different cultures and periods of time.

Discuss legal, ethical, and moral considerations involved in appreciation vs appropriation and inspiration vs plagiarism.

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Strand: Communicate

Big Idea: Critical Response

Skill Descriptor:

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate critical analysis skills.    

Achievement Indicators:

Determine how artists have used the elements of art and principles of design to convey a message.

Critically analyze artworks with guidance and support.

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Big Idea: Personal Communication

Skill Descriptor:

Skill Descriptor: Present expressive works.

Achievement Indicators:

Contribute to an exhibit of personally meaningful, self-created works.

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