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 4: Understanding the Cultural Dimensions and Contributions of the Arts

4. Students will explore art and artifacts from various historical periods and world cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a given time and place and to understand how the time and place influence the visual characteristics of the art work. Students will explore art to understand the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of human society.

Students:

look at and discuss a variety of art works and artifacts from world cultures to discover some important ideas, issues, and events of those cultures (a)
look at a variety of art works and artifacts from diverse cultures of the United States and identify some distinguishing characteristics (b)
create art works that show the influence of a particular culture (c).

This is evident, for example, when students:

examine the Spanish style of architecture of the Southwest and describe the ways in which that architecture differs from architecture in New England used for the same purposes
discuss the ways in which the depiction of space differs in Egyptian art with the way it is depicted in Renaissance art and conjecture about the reasons for the differences

study the style of the Australian Aboriginal art and create a work using that style but expressing their own ideas about nature and animals.