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Standard 1 : Creating, interpreting, and responding in the arts stimulate the imagination and encourage innovation and creative risk-taking.
Cluster Standards

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  • VA.912.F.1.1 : Use divergent thinking, abstract reasoning, and various processes to demonstrate imaginative or innovative solutions for art problems.
  • VA.912.F.1.2 : Manipulate or synthesize established techniques as a foundation for individual style initiatives in two-, three-, and/or four-dimensional applications.
  • VA.912.F.1.3 : Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability throughout the innovation process to focus and re-focus on an idea, deliberately delaying closure to promote creative risk-taking.
  • VA.912.F.1.4 : Use technological tools to create art with varying effects and outcomes.
  • VA.912.F.1.5 : Create a digital or time-based presentation to analyze and compare artists, artworks, and concepts in historical context.
Cluster Information
Number:
VA.912.F.1
Title:
Creating, interpreting, and responding in the arts stimulate the imagination and encourage innovation and creative risk-taking.
Type:
Enduring Understanding
Subject:
Visual Art
Grade:
912
Big Idea
Innovation, Technology, and the Future
Cluster Access Points

This cluster includes the following Access Points.

  • VA.912.F.1.In.a : Select and use techniques, structural elements of art, and principles of design to create a variety of artworks in different or unusual ways.
  • VA.912.F.1.In.b : Demonstrate the use of a variety of technology to produce, store, consume, or view art as a citizen, consumer, or worker.
  • VA.912.F.1.In.c : Compare artists from a variety of historic periods, including elements of the lifestyles, and events taking place during that period.
  • VA.912.F.1.Su.a : Use teacher-selected techniques, structural elements of art, and organizational principles of design to create a variety of artworks in different or unusual ways.
  • VA.912.F.1.Su.b : Individually or collaboratively demonstrate the use of selected technology to produce, store, consume, or view art as a citizen, consumer, or worker.
  • VA.912.F.1.Su.c : Identify similarities and differences in works of art produced during different historical periods.
  • VA.912.F.1.Pa.a : Use a teacher-selected structural element of art or principle of design to create a variety of artworks in different or unusual ways.
  • VA.912.F.1.Pa.b : Use selected technology to access visual art as a citizen, consumer, or worker.
  • VA.912.F.1.Pa.c : Identify a variety of historically significant works of art.
Cluster Resources

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Lesson Plans
  • Natural Lighting in the Photography Studio: In this lesson, students will learn how to use natural lighting inspired by the style of Richard Avedon's In the American West series.  He uses natural lighting focusing completely on the subject, telling their unique story.

    Students will have an opportunity to work together in small groups to take pictures using the lighting techniques taught during the lesson to create a strong image. Students will prepare to share their art work and reflections on the experience with the class.   

     

  • Slab-Built forms: Symmetry in Positive and Negative Space: Students explore the repetition of negative shapes that relate to the positive shapes in a symmetrical, slab-built form to create unity.