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:

use the language of art criticism by reading and discussing critical reviews in newspapers and journals and by writing their own critical responses to works of art (either their own or those of others) (a)
explain the visual and other sensory qualities in art and nature and their relation to the social environment (b)
analyze and interpret the ways in which political, cultural, social, religious, and psychological concepts and themes have been explored in visual art (c)
develop connections between the ways ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts and other disciplines in everyday life (d).

This is evident, for example, when students:

discuss the point of view of a critic in a local newspaper who has reviewed a local exhibition
analyze the way in which a work of art by Leon Golub expresses a political point of view

write a review of a student exhibition.