| Big Ideas |
An artist’s intention transforms materials into art. |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: materials |
Elaboration: any visual arts materials, ranging from traditional to innovative. The spectrum of materials available to artists is constantly evolving and open-ended. |
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| Content |
health and safety protocols and procedures |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
moral rights, and the ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: moral rights |
Elaboration: the rights of an artist to control what happens to his or her creations (e.g., preventing them from being revised, altered, or distorted); students should understand when they can and cannot modify an image created by someone else |
| Keyword: cultural appropriation |
Elaboration: use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, song, or drama, 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 |
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| Content |
history of a variety of artistic movements, including their roles in historical and contemporary societies |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
contributions of traditional, innovative, and intercultural graphic artists from a variety of movements, contexts, and periods |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
traditional and contemporary First Peoples worldviews, stories, and practices, as expressed through graphic arts |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
influences of visual culture in social and other media |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: visual culture |
Elaboration: for example, aspects of culture that rely on visual representation |
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| Content |
roles of and relationships between artist and audience |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
symbols and metaphors |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
creative processes |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: creative processes |
Elaboration: the means by which an artistic work (in dance, drama, music, or visual arts) is made; includes multiple processes, such as exploration, selection, combination, refinement, reflection, and connection |
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| Content |
printmaking and graphic forms, materials, technologies, and processes |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: forms |
Elaboration: for printmaking and graphic arts (e.g., printmaking, digital graphics, concept art, illustration, graphic novels, typography, other genres) |
| Keyword: materials |
Elaboration: for printmaking and graphic arts (e.g., linoleum, copper, aluminum, acrylic, polystyrene, screens, ink, paper, fabric, paper, wood, improvisational materials such as collagraph materials) |
| Keyword: technologies |
Elaboration: for printmaking and graphic arts (e.g., pencils, pens, brayers, printing presses, barens, chisels, etching tools, carving tools, airbrushes, rulers, digital graphic software, scanners, printers, cameras, hand-held devices) |
| Keyword: processes |
Elaboration: for printmaking and graphic arts (e.g., monotype/monoprint, relief, intaglio, planograph, serigraph) |
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| Content |
image development strategies |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: image development strategies |
Elaboration: processes that transform ideas and experiences into visual images (e.g., abstraction, compression, distortion, elaboration, exaggeration, gesture, figure, fragmentation, free association, juxtaposition, magnification, metamorphosis, minification, multiplication, point of view, reversal, rotation, simplification, stylization, thumbnail sketch, storyboard, narration) |
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| Content |
principles of design |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: principles of design |
Elaboration: balance, contrast, emphasis, harmony, movement, pattern, repetition, rhythm, unity |
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| Content |
elements of visual art |
Graphic Arts 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: elements of visual art |
Elaboration: colour, form, line, shape, space, texture, tone, value |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate safe and responsible use of materials, tools, and work space |
Graphic Arts 12 |
Connect and expand |
| Keyword: responsible use of materials |
Elaboration: using materials in an environmentally responsible way, including considering their level of biodegradability and potential for reuse and recycling |
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