Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Standard 3: Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art

3. Students will reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art, using the language of art criticism. Students will analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and built environment and explain the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental dimensions of the visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts with the ways they are expressed in other disciplines.

Students:

explain their reflections about the meanings, purposes, and sources of works of art; describe their responses to the works and the reasons for those responses (a)
explain the visual and other sensory qualities (surfaces, colors, textures, shape, sizes, volumes) found in a wide variety of art works (b)
explain the themes that are found in works of visual art and how the art works are related to other forms of art (dance, music, theatre, etc.) (c)
explain how ideas, themes, or concepts in the visual arts are expressed in other disciplines (e.g., mathematics, science, literature, social studies, etc.) (d).

This is evident, for example, when students:

describe what they see in a work of art and tell what they think the work of art is about
describe how lines might imply motion, color might convey emotion and size might suggest distance in selected works of art

show how pattern can be found in a Mondrian painting and in a familiar song.