ARTSEDGE: 9-12 Visual Arts

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Targeted Standards:

National Standards for Arts Education:

The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).

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Content Standard 2

Using knowledge of structures and functions

Achievement Standard

Proficient:

Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art
Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions
Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems

Advanced:

Students demonstrate the ability to compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and to defend personal evaluations of these perspectives
Students create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions

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