Visual Art 10, 20, 30
Outcomes:
Initiate and develop ideas for art works that explore a variety of elements, design principles and image development strategies.
Demonstrate, through practice, a variety of drawing/mark making techniques, skills and compositional strategies using a range of media, to communicate ideas.
Experiment with various art practices (e.g., drawing, painting, crafting, printmaking, digital technologies, sculpture, installation) to develop new or unique ideas.
Use inquiry to create a work of art inspired by the work of Saskatchewan artists.
Outcomes:
Assess to improve own art work using self-reflection, teacher and peer feedback.
Examine how design and compositional strategies are used by Saskatchewan artists, including First Nations and Métis artists, to convey ideas.
Respond critically to art works of professional artists, including Indigenous artists, to explore intent.
Outcomes:
Investigate Saskatchewan art works that convey perspectives about topics related to treaties and/or building of relationships, including newcomer experiences.
Investigate the impact of visual culture on students’ lives and the human condition.
Research and share findings about opportunities to continue lifelong engagement and learning in visual art.
Outcomes:
Engage in artistic risk-taking with ideas, media and image development strategies to achieve meaning.
Experiment with a variety of visual art practices (e.g., drawing, painting, crafting, printmaking, digital technologies, sculpture) to explore ideas derived from various sources of inspiration including perspectives of First Nations and Métis people in Saskatchewan.
Create art works, using various practices (e.g., drawing, painting, crafting, printmaking, digital technologies, sculpture, installation), that respond to diverse worldviews.
Use inquiry to create a work of art inspired by the work of national and/or international artists.
Outcomes:
Identify and analyse criteria for critiquing and valuing various forms of visual art.
Analyze factors (e.g., inspiration, technology, culture, environment, events, government policies) that influence art-making practices around the world, past and present.
Reflect on, and critically respond to, self and peer art works in progress to enhance ideas and convey meaning.
Outcomes:
Investigate art works from around the world that address the human rights of Indigenous and various cultures.
Investigate how artists from around the world incorporate and manipulate media, form and content in interdisciplinary work.
3 Investigate opportunities in arts communities and visual art-related practices and careers in Saskatchewan, Canada and the world.
Outcomes:
Purposefully select and manipulate media and image development strategies to express ideas demonstrating personal style and voice.
Independently plan and create art works, in selected media and forms, demonstrating personal voice and artistic growth.
Demonstrate ability to innovate and take risks using familiar and unfamiliar art-making processes and techniques.
Use inquiry to create art work inspired by Canadian artists whose work responds to socially relevant topics (e.g., sustainability, social justice, diversity and inclusion).
Outcomes:
1 Collaborate with peers, teachers, and/or mentors to generate and apply appropriate contextual criteria for a critique of an art work.
Critically respond to art work by Canadian artists whose subject matter is related to resistance and/or resilience.
Critically reflect on choice of discipline, content and media in the development of own voice and style.
Outcomes:
Investigate how visual art in Canada can support and build relationships and deepen understanding that we are all treaty people.
Examine how visual art expressions have changed over time and/or inspired change in individuals, communities and societies.
Engage with communities to collaborate and build relationships beyond the classroom through visual art experiences.