Course #: AR 99

Grade Level: 10^th – 12^th

Course Name: Independent Study

Level of Difficulty: Average - High

Prerequisites: Teacher recommendation

# of Credits: 1/2

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1: Creating Art.

Students know and apply the arts, disciplines, techniques and processes to communicate in original or interpretive work.

1AV-D1. Create, on a regular basis, inventive works of art that solve environmental, industrial, technological and commercial problems.

1AV-D2. Initiate, define and solve challenging visual arts problems using analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

1AV-D3. Communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium.

1AV-D4. Create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate a high level of competence in producing effective relationships between visual form and expression.

1AV-D5. Create a public exhibit of one’s own artwork, which reflects personal growth as an artist.

1AV-D1. Create works of art for a portfolio

1AV-D2. Create self-initiated works of art that solve visual problems.

1AV-D3. Create artworks in at least one visual arts medium that communicate own ideas

1AV-D4. Produce artworks that solve specific visual art problems.

1AV-D5. Produce a portfolio of own artwork for presentation.

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2: Art in Context.

Students demonstrate how interrelated conditions (social, economic, political, time and place) influence and give meaning to the development and reception of thought, ideas and concepts in the arts.

. 2AV-D1. Analyze the origins of specific images in the visual arts and explain their importance and influence.

2AV-D2. Analyze and interpret common and divergent characteristics of artworks evident across time and among cultural groups to formulate analyses, evaluations and interpretations of meaning.

2AV-D3. Compare own analysis and interpretation of the visual arts with those made by critics, historians, aestheticians and artists.

2AV-D1. Participate in activities that analyze the origins of specific images in the visual arts and explain their importance and influence.

2AV-D2. Participate in activities that analyze and interpret common and divergent characteristics of artworks evident across time and among cultural groups.

2AV-D3. Participate in activities that compare own analysis and interpretation of the visual arts with those made by critics, historians, aestheticians and artists.

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3: Art as Inquiry.

Students demonstrate how the arts reveal universal concepts and themes. Students reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

3AV-D1. Demonstrate the ability to compare two or more perspectives concerning the use of organizational principles and functions in the visual arts.

3AV-D2. Analyze the unique characteristics of aesthetic perception as compared with those of general perception, which is only concerned with an immediate like or dislike of an image.

3AV-D3. Demonstrate the ability to make refined and subtle discriminations when analyzing works of art by one’s self and/or works by others.

3AV-D4. Analyze and critique (e.g., using descriptors, analogies and metaphors) prominent works of art and the work of emerging artists, using technology as one means of doing so.

3AV-D1. Participate in activities that compare two or more perspectives concerning the use of organizational principles and functions in the visual arts.

3AV-D2. Participate in activities that analyze the unique characteristics of aesthetic perception and general perception.

3AV-D3. Participate in individual critiques of own artwork and the work of others.

3AV-D4. Participate in individual critiques of prominent works of art.