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:

analyze works of art from diverse world cultures and discuss the ideas, issues, and events of the culture that these works convey (a)
examine works of art and artifacts from United States cultures and place them within a cultural and historical context (b)
create art works that reflect a variety of cultural influences (c).

This is evident, for example, when students:

compare the way the human figure is depicted in Byzantine art with the way it is depicted in High Renaissance art and explore the reasons for the differences

select a style of art from the 20th century, study the characteristics of that style, research one artist who painted in that style and make a work of art using that style but expressing the students' point of view or idea.