CONNECTICUT VISUAL ART STANDARDS
Applying Program Goals to Visual Arts
Common Core Visual Arts Goals
Connecticut Visual Arts Standards
GRADE K-12 Standards
1. Media: Students will understand, select and apply media, techniques and processes.
1.1. Students select media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, reflect on their choices and analyze what makes them effective.
1.2. Students improve the communication of their own ideas by effectively using the characteristics of a variety of traditional and contemporary art media, techniques and processes (two-dimensional and three-dimensional, including media/technology).
1.3. Students use different media, techniques and processes (two-dimensional and three-dimensional, including media/technology) to communicate ideas, feelings, experiences and stories.
2. Elements and Principles: Students will understand and apply elements and organizational principles of art.
2.3. Students select and use the elements of art and principles of design to improve communication of their ideas.
3. Content: Students will consider, select and apply a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.
3.1. Students consider, select from and apply a variety of sources for art content in order to communicate intended meaning.
4. History And Cultures: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
4.1. Students know and compare the characteristics and purposes of works of art representing various cultures, historical periods and artists.
4.2. Students describe and place a variety of specific significant art objects by artist, style and historical and cultural context.
4.3. Students analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, natural resources, ideas and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.
5. Analysis, Interpretation and Evaluation: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others' work.
5.1. Students compare and contrast purposes for creating works of art.
5.2. Students describe and analyze visual characteristics of works of art using visual art terminology.
5.3. Students compare a variety of individual responses to, and interpretations of, their own works of art and those from various eras and cultures.
5.4. Students describe their own responses to, and interpretations of, specific works of art.
5.5. Students reflect on and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' work using specific criteria (e.g., technique, formal and expressive qualities, content).
5.6. Students describe/analyze their own artistic growth over time in relation to specific criteria.
6. Connections: Students will make connections between the visual arts, other disciplines and daily life.
6.1. Students compare the characteristics of works in the visual arts and other art forms that share similar subject matter, themes, purposes, historical periods or cultural context.
6.3. Students combine the visual arts with another art form to create coherent multimedia work.
Common Core Visual Arts Goals
Connecticut Visual Arts Standards
GRADE K-12 Standards
1. Media: Students will understand, select and apply media, techniques and processes.
1.1. Students select media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, reflect on their choices and analyze what makes them effective.
1.2. Students improve the communication of their own ideas by effectively using the characteristics of a variety of traditional and contemporary art media, techniques and processes (two-dimensional and three-dimensional, including media/technology).
1.3. Students use different media, techniques and processes (two-dimensional and three-dimensional, including media/technology) to communicate ideas, feelings, experiences and stories.
2. Elements and Principles: Students will understand and apply elements and organizational principles of art.
2.3. Students select and use the elements of art and principles of design to improve communication of their ideas.
3. Content: Students will consider, select and apply a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.
3.1. Students consider, select from and apply a variety of sources for art content in order to communicate intended meaning.
4. History And Cultures: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
4.1. Students know and compare the characteristics and purposes of works of art representing various cultures, historical periods and artists.
4.2. Students describe and place a variety of specific significant art objects by artist, style and historical and cultural context.
4.3. Students analyze, describe and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, natural resources, ideas and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.
5. Analysis, Interpretation and Evaluation: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others' work.
5.1. Students compare and contrast purposes for creating works of art.
5.2. Students describe and analyze visual characteristics of works of art using visual art terminology.
5.3. Students compare a variety of individual responses to, and interpretations of, their own works of art and those from various eras and cultures.
5.4. Students describe their own responses to, and interpretations of, specific works of art.
5.5. Students reflect on and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' work using specific criteria (e.g., technique, formal and expressive qualities, content).
5.6. Students describe/analyze their own artistic growth over time in relation to specific criteria.
6. Connections: Students will make connections between the visual arts, other disciplines and daily life.
6.1. Students compare the characteristics of works in the visual arts and other art forms that share similar subject matter, themes, purposes, historical periods or cultural context.
6.3. Students combine the visual arts with another art form to create coherent multimedia work.