Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework for Visual Arts
Available via the Massachusetts Department of Education
| The Learning Standards for the Visual Arts are: | |
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Media, Materials, and Techniques. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the media, materials and techniques unique to the visual arts. |
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Elements and Principals of Design. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the elements and principals of design. |
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Observation, Abstraction, Invention, and Expression. Students will demonstrate their powers of observation, abstraction, invention and expression in a variety of media, materials, and techniques. |
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Drafting, Revising and Exhibiting. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the processes of creating their own artwork: drafts, critique, self-assessment, refinement, and exhibition. |
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Critical Response. Students will describe and analyze their own work and the work of others, using appropriate visual arts vocabulary; and interpret the meanings of works, citing structural elements and expressive qualities to justify their interpretations. |
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Purposes of the Arts. Students will describe the purposes for which works of dance, music, theater, visual arts and architecture were and are created. |
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Roles of Artists in Communities. Students will describe the roles of artists, patrons, cultural organizations, and arts institutions in societies of the past and present. |
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Concepts of Style, Stylistic Influence, and Stylistic Change. Students will demonstrate their understanding of styles, stylistic influence, and stylistic change by identifying when and where art works were created, and by analyzing characteristic features of art works from various historical periods, cultures, and genres. |
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Inventions, Technologies and the Arts. Students will describe and analyze how performing and visual artists use and have used materials, inventions, and technologies in their work. |
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Interdisciplinary Connections. Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the study of English language arts, foreign languages, health, history and social science, mathematics, and science and technology. |
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