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 upon, 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.

In addition to the General Education performance indicators, students:

using the language of art criticism, describe the visual and functional characteristics of works of art and interpret the relationships of works of art one to another, to describe the impact of the work on the viewer (a)
demonstrate an understanding of art criticism, art histories, and aesthetic principles and show their connections to works of art (b)
give evidence in their Commencement Portfolios that they have researched a theme in-depth and that in their research they have explored the ways the theme has been expressed in other disciplinary forms (c).

This is evident, for example, when students:

write a review of a local art exhibition
discuss the role of museums and galleries in defining what current art is

compare the way in which the migration of the African-Americans to the north is depicted in Jacob Lawrence's series of paintings The Great Migration with the description of that migration in the history textbooks.