Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through visual arts experiences.
The visual arts provide opportunities to gain insight into perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.
Art experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
The visual arts use a unique sensory language for creating and communicating.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
visual arts elements, principles, and image design strategies to create mood and convey ideas, including but not limited to:
- elements of design: line, shape, space, texture, colour, form, valuedescribes lightness or darkness
- principles of designthe planned use of visual elements to achieve a desired effect: pattern, repetition, balancethe arrangement of one or more elements to give a sense of equilibrium in design and proportion (e.g., radial, symmetrical, or asymmetrical), contrast, emphasis, rhythmthe combination of pattern and movement to create a feeling of organized energy, movementdeliberate control of the viewer’s visual path across a work (e.g., a strong diagonal thrust of a colour), unitya sense of oneness created by the relationship among the elements (e.g., colours and lines that work together), variety, proportionthe relationship in size of parts, to a whole, and to one another, harmonycomponents of the visual image relate to, and complement each other
- image design strategies: elaboration, simplification, magnification, reversal, fragmentation, distortion
personal narrative as a means of representing self-perception and identity in artistic works
the roles of artists and audiences in a variety of contexts
traditional and contemporary Aboriginal worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives as communicated through visual arts
contributions of innovative
for example, artists who trigger change, use technology in different ways, or bring about paradigm shifts
artists from a variety of styles, genres, contexts, and movements
personal and social responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, and responding to visual art
the ethics of cultural appropriation
use of cultural motifs, themes, “voices,” images, knowledge, stories, songs, drama, etc. shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
and plagiarism
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Exploring and creating
Create both collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, and purposeful play
learning that uses real-life and/or imaginary situations to engage and challenge learners’ thinking. Through planned purposeful play, students express their natural curiosity while exploring the world around them. It also provides a means for high-level reasoning and problem solving in a variety of ways
Explore materials, technologies, processes, and environments by combining and arranging elements, principles, and image design strategies
Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical, and environmental contexts
Demonstrate active engagement and discipline in creating works of art and resolving creative challenges
Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through artistic experiences
Select and combine elements and principles of the arts to intentionally create a particular mood or meaning
Reasoning and reflecting
Describe, interpret, and evaluate how artists use technologies, processes, materials, and environments to create and communicate ideas
Develop, refine, document, and critically appraise ideas, processes, and technical skills
Reflect on their art-making process and development as artists
Communicating and documenting
Create works of art using materials, technologies, and processes for different purposes and audiences
Compose, interpret, and expand ideas using symbolism, metaphor, and design strategies
Revise, refine, analyze, and document
activities that help students reflect on their learning and make their learning visible (e.g., through drawing, painting, journaling, taking pictures, making video clips or audio-recordings, constructing new works, compiling a portfolio)
creative works and experiences
Present or share personal works of art
Connecting and expanding
Reflect on works of art and creative processes to make connections to personal learning and experiences
Take creative risks to experience and express thoughts, emotions, and meaning
Demonstrate respect for themselves, others, and the audience
Collaborate through reciprocal relationships during the creative process
Create personally meaningful artistic works that demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of social, cultural, environmental, and historical contexts
Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content