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:

discuss and write their analyses and interpretations of their own works of art and the art of others, using appropriate critical language (a)
identify, analyze, and interpret the visual and sensory characteristics that they discover in natural and human-made forms (b)
compare the ways ideas and concepts are communicated through visual art with the various ways that those ideas and concepts are manifested in other art forms (c).
compare the ways ideas, themes, and concepts are communicated through the visual arts in other disciplines, and the various ways that those ideas, themes, and concepts are manifested within the discipline (d).

This is evident, for example, when students:

write an interpretation of Horace Pippin's Domino Players after class analysis of the images and composition
discuss the way in which the black and white and gray of the painting enhances the meaning of Picasso's Guerinca

analyze the engineering skills and the political skills, in addition to his artistic vision that the artist, Christo, needed in order to complete the Wrapping Of The Reich Stag in 1995.