Visual Arts 20
Overall Expectations:
CP20.3 Create art works, using various practices (e.g., drawing, painting, crafting, printmaking, digital technologies, sculpture, installation), that respond to diverse worldviews.
Specific Expectations:
d. Research a controversial topic (e.g., climate change, the plight of asylum seekers, equity for individuals and couples who are gender and sexually diverse, political activism) from the perspective of opposing or diverse worldviews (e.g., philosophical, spiritual, gender, feminist, cultural) and respond to the same topic through own art work.
MediaSmarts Resources
Art Exchange
Bias and Crime in Media
Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads - Lesson
Reality Check: We Are All Broadcasters
Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
The Price of Happiness
Overall Expectations:
CR20.2 Analyze factors (e.g., inspiration, technology, culture, environment, events, government policies) that influence art-making practices around the world, past and present
Specific Expectations:
f.Determine historical, social and environmental factors that may have influenced the production of art works and describe own interpretations and understanding of the works
MediaSmarts Resources
Advertising and Male Violence
Sex in Advertising
The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
Overall Expectations:
CH20.1 Investigate art works from around the world that address the human rights of Indigenous and various cultures.
Specific Expectations:
a. Explore and describe connections between art works that express social commentary concerning peoples from around the world (e.g., art works that comment on issues such as Indigenous health, racism, self-determination, environmental degradation).