Visual Arts: High School - Accomplished

Creating

Presenting

Responding

Connecting

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, reengage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation. Analyze, select, and critique personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation. Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work. Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work. Identify types of contextual information useful in the process of constructing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works.

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work. Determine the relevance of criteria used by others to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art. Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through artmaking.

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding. Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary, local, and global contexts.

Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on students’ existing artwork.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.

Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.

Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences.