Grade 4 - Visual Art (2022)

Visual Art

Foundational Elements and Principles: Visual arts literacy is developed through knowledge and application of foundational elements and principles

Creating and Presenting: Ideas can be represented through artworks that draw upon foundational visual arts knowledge

Appreciation: Recognizing beauty, goodness, and truth in visual arts can be developed by understanding the complexity and richness of great artworks, the artists who create them, and the historical and cultural contexts from which they originate

Students interpret the role of colour in artworks.

Students evaluate how texture can contribute to detail within a composition.

Students employ narrative as a structure for organizing ideas in artworks

Students relate how culture is reflected in visual arts across time and place

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Knowledge

Understanding

Skills & Procedures

Colour can be lightened or darkened by creating tints and shades

When white is added to a colour it becomes a tint.

When black is added to a colour it becomes a shade

Neutral colours include black, grey, white, and brown

The value of a colour can increase or decrease in lightness or darkness, known as gradation

Adjusting the value of a colour can provide contrast in artworks

Value can give the illusion of mass or volume in two-dimensional works of art

When colours with different values or hues are placed next to each other in a composition, the illusion of an edge, a shape, or a line can emerge

A monochromatic colour originates from a single hue and can be developed using shades and tints, as seen in Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907 Hendrick van Anthonissen, Shipping in a Gale, c. 1656

Colour can express or represent feelings and create mood

Colour can be described as having temperature that is warm, which includes red, orange, and yellow cool, which includes blue, green, and violet

Warm and cool colours in an artwork can have an emotional effect for a viewer

Examples of warm colours can be seen in Ted Harrison, Flying South, 1993 Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, c. 1888

Examples of cool colours can be seen in Alex Colville, To Prince Edward Island, 1965 Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1829-1832

Harmony is a principle of design that can be achieved by combining colours that are pleasing to the eye

Combining colours can create a sense of harmony or contrast in artworks, as seen in Tom Thomson, The Jack Pine, 1916-1917

Colours can be interpreted to complement another colour, including the colour pairs yellow-violet, red-green, blue-orange

Two complementary colours will create a neutral colour when mixed.

Pigments used in artworks today are typically manufactured

Natural pigments come from the land and can be found in plants, animals, and minerals, including clay hematite, an ore of iron in the colours black, silver, grey, brown, or red charcoal

Pigments are coloured materials that are typically insoluble in water, unless ground into a fine powder first

Pigments are added to paints to give them colour

The colour quality or pigment may vary within different media

Texture can be inviting, by eliciting a positive response such as curiosity, or less inviting, by provoking a negative response such as disgust.

Texture can be applied to artworks in a subtle or an exaggerated way.

Several textures can be applied to create contrast for effect.

Collage is a kind of artwork created by using a variety of materials that can vary in texture, including paper photographs fabric yarn plastics

Fabric art is created by using materials that have texture, including fibres or yarn thread and needle to create stitching tie-dye batik or resist dyeing

Texture can create an effect in artworks, as seen in Christi Belcourt, Nathalie, 2014 Faith Ringgold, Woman on a Bridge #1 of 5: Tar Beach, c. 1988

Texture contributed to historical architecture, as seen in Alhambra Palace, Spain Dome of the Rock, Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem Taj Mahal, India

Colour has the physical property of value.

Value indicates the lightness or darkness of a colour

Colour can impact the viewer's response to an artwork

People have different colour preferences.

Colour is determined by the pigments in an object or a material

Texture can create a visual effect that is realistic and creates mood in artworks

Texture can enhance the visual impact of artworks.

Explore how to create tints, shades, and gradation.

Observe and discuss how artists employ value in a variety of artworks.

Experiment with how to apply monochromatic colour to artworks.

Investigate how colour and value can create contrast in artworks

Examine how the illusion of mass or volume can be created by adjusting value.

Describe how the use of warm and cool colours contributes to a composition

Explore how colour can create harmony or contrast in artworks

Explore the effect in using warm and cool colours in artworks.

Assess the use of colour in artworks to represent feelings and create mood

Express preferences related to the use of colour in artworks

Experiment with how to create neutral colours by mixing complementary colours

Investigate where natural pigments come from and how they were used in the past.

Explore how texture can be used to create a visual effect.

Describe how the use of texture can elicit a response from a viewer.

Use various materials to create texture in artworks

Use visual arts vocabulary to discuss how texture exists in threedimensional works of art.

Inspiration for a narrative may come from stories music various forms of media real people or characters experiences imagination the environmen

A narrative in visual arts may or may not represent a sequence of events in the order in which they happened

A variety of media can be used to illustrate the order of events in a narrative, including storyboards, paintings, and fabric arts.

Pictures can be grouped in sets (diptych or triptych) as seen in Andrew Salgado, 20 Years, 2014 Robert Campin, The Merode Altarpiece, c. 1427-432

A narrative in art can be depicted in two- and three-dimensional works, as seen in Basawan and Chetar Munti, Akbar's Adventure with the Elephant Hawa'i, c. 1561 Helen Granger Young, The Famous Five Monument, c. 2010

The structure of a narrative in visual arts can be represented using motifs, metaphors, and themes.

Group expression in visual arts can be seen in murals, community artworks, and cultural artifacts.

Points of view or perspectives can reflect ideas, experiences, and culture.

Warm and cool colours can represent feelings in a narrative

Texture can create mood or evoke an emotional response when incorporated into artworks

Principles of design, including harmony and contrast, can influence how well the elements of art work together to communicate a narrative.

An artist can shape a narrative through the use of elements of art creative processes media tools, techniques, and methods experimentation or informed artistic choices

A curator chooses how artworks are displayed, which can shape the way a narrative is presented

Additional information about a narrative can be communicated through titles and descriptions about the artwork

A narrative told through visual arts can be combined with other art forms, including dance, drama, and music.

A narrative in artworks can be illustrated as a partial or whole representation.

A narrative can be factual or fictitious.

A narrative can communicate points of view or perspectives of an individual or a group

Feelings and mood can be interpreted visually through the use of line, shape, and colour

A narrative in visual arts can be shaped by the artist, curator, or viewer

A viewer's reaction to an artwork can be in response to how the artwork is presented or created.

Choose an inspiration for representing a narrative

Create two- and three-dimensional works of art to convey a narrative

Create artworks from various perspectives

Explore how principles of design can enhance communication of a narrative

Explore how the elements of art can be used to communicate mood or feelings.

Investigate how the elements of art can be used to represent perspective in artworks.

Make experimental and informed artistic choices when creating artworks

Accompany artworks with titles and descriptions of a narrative

Experiment with how displaying an artwork can influence how it is viewed.

Culture can be enhanced when artistic communities participate, communicate, are engaged, and share responsibilities.

The culture of an artistic community can support the caring and respectful inclusion of all participants

Visual artwork in Alberta has been influenced by the histories and traditions of artists from a variety of cultures

Petroglyphs are a form of written text that some societies have interpreted as visual art.

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in Alberta has many examples of First Nations petroglyphs

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit share knowledge through artworks that can include stone, wood, and bone carvings pottery embroidery porcupine quillwork birchbark art geometric patterns and motifs on hide beading weaving paintings

The Métis people of Alberta are renowned for their floral beadwork.

Lawren Harris (1885-1970) was a member of an influential group of Canadian artists called the Group of Seven that captured the Alberta landscape in oil paintings.

Medieval European artworks were often based on people and events from religious stories and classical myths, including heroes, heroines, and gods that are still commonly referenced in English literature, in brand names, and in everyday writing and conversation people and events narrated in Jewish and Christian stories

The Book of Kells is a medieval manuscript in which decorations, including images and borders, accompany the text

Tapestries, including The Unicorn Tapestries, were woven artworks that could communicate information about history legends religious teachings everyday life

Architecture in the Middle Ages was often built with consideration for protecting the people inside the buildings, including castles on rocky hilltops and homes surrounded by walls.

Architectural styles from the Middle Ages still exist today, some of which can be seen in Carolingian Palatine Chapel, Gothic: Westminster Abbey, Old-New Synagogue of Prague, and Hotel-Dieu, Ostrogothic: Basilica of San Vitale Romanesque or Norman: Abbaye de Cluny, Durham Cathedral, and Carcassonne

Gothic cathedrals were built with specific and important architectural styles, including spires pointed arches flying buttresses rose windows stained glass and statues

Traditional Gothic cathedrals can be viewed today, as seen in Notre-Dame in Paris, France Our Lady of Chartres in Chartres, France

Artworks in medieval Islam discouraged the use of shapes and detailed patterns to depict the human form

Islamic artworks used decorative forms of art, including calligraphy folk pottery rugs and carpets

Decorative designs on ceramics and folk pottery included inscriptions and proverbs animals, usually birds from the folkloric past geometric designs abstract patterns

Islamic books or manuscripts were illustrated in a style called illumination, which often featured complex patterns and designs using geometric, botanical, and animal forms

Silk weaving led to the art form of carpets in Islamic art, which included elaborate patterns and bright colours.

Medieval Islamic architecture can be seen in Alhambra Palace, 1238-1358, in Granada, Spain The Great Mosque of Cordoba, 784-1146 CE

A mosque is a central gathering place required for common prayer and community gatherings.

A hypostyle mosque is an architectural design where the roof rested upon pillars or columns

When communities unite through the arts, culture can be learned.

The culture of an artistic community is about shared ways of being together and reaching common goals.

Visual arts in Alberta can reflect the culture of those who came before us and those who live here now

Culture was revealed through the artworks of the Middle Ages.

Participate in visual arts as a member of an artistic community

Demonstrate how artistic roles and responsibilities contribute to a sense of community.

Investigate information shared through petroglyphs found in Alberta

Explore the significance of local artworks

Create visual art that reflects the history or traditions of Alberta.

Discuss examples of knowledge that First Nations, Métis, and Inuit can share through artworks.

View artworks and architecture from the Middle Ages as an inspiration for talking about and creating art

Design artworks using the decorative styles of the Middle Ages