Grade 7 - Visual Art

Visual Art

Drawings

Compositions

Encounters

Record: Students will record single images and simple units

Investigate: Students will select and identify line, value, and texture in the natural and manmade environment for image making.

Communicate: Students will use expressiveness in their use of elements in the making of images.

Articulate and Evaluate: Students will learn to use the basic vocabulary of art criticism in descriptions of their work.

Components 1: Students will experiment with colour effects on compositions.

Components 2: Students will experiment with techniques and media within complete compositions of two and three dimensions.

Relationships: Students will learn to use the basic vocabulary of art criticism in descriptions of their work.

Organizations: Students will explore the transformation of form in composition: progression, alteration, exaggeration.

Sources of Images: Students will identify similarities and differences in expressions of selected cultural groups.

Transformations Through Time: Students will recognize the significance of the visual symbols which identify the selected cultural groups.

Impact of Images: Students will search for contemporary evidence relating to themes studied.

Recording change and movement of figures is one of the purposes of drawing

Describing the internal and external boundaries of forms is one of the purposes of drawing.

Describing the planes and volumes of forms is one of the purposes of drawing.

Lines can vary in direction, location, quality, emphasis, movement, and mood.

Value in drawing is affected by the qualities of surfaces and the qualities of light.

Texture as the character of a surface can be depicted in drawing by the arrangement of lines and marks.

Mood or emotion in an image can be affected by the balance of values and the quality of lines.

Characteristic qualities of a person or object can be emphasized by the quality of line used in an image.

Unusual combinations of shapes can suggest the invention of fantasy or mysterious images.

Strong, definite use of line suggests energy and clarity of images.

The skill of describing materials and techniques used in creating an image is part of learning to talk about art. 

The skill of identifying design elements used in creating an image is part of learning to talk about art. 

Identifying and discussing one's problems in drawing and composing images is part of learning to talk about art.

Discussing one's responses to one's own drawings and images is part of learning to talk about art. 

Primary colours combine to create secondary and tertiary colours.

Colour schemes create certain moods in images.

Colour schemes direct attention.

Sculptures can be formed using materials in additive and subtractive ways to demonstrate formal and informal balance.

Relief compositions can be assembled or formed using materials in additive or subtractive ways.

Two-dimensional materials can be used to make compositions demonstrating simple pictorial space. 

Terms describing materials, techniques, subject matter, and design elements

Identifying problems associated with image making is part of learning to analyze and criticize one's own art works.

The concept of change over time can be expressed through a series of drawings.

Imaginary forms can be created by altering or rearranging parts of images. 

Symbolic meanings are expressed in different ways by different cultural groups

Different cultural groups use different materials to create images or artifacts.

Artifacts can have religious, magical, and ceremonial meanings.

Power and authority can be symbolized in various ways.

Visual symbols are used for identification and status by people in groups.

External influences may have modified the imagery of a cultural group over time.

Religious, magical, or ceremonial images used in contemporary society can be identified.

Authority, power, or politics in contemporary society may be described in image form.

The ways people generate visual works can be influenced by a number of factors.