Introduction to the Visual Arts of the World (Diversity)

Students will demonstrate an awareness of the scope and variety of visual art by discussing, writing about, making projects, or being tested on characteristics of types of visual art such as 2D, 3D, lens-based, multi-media, digital, craft, performance, or installation art.

Students will describe and appreciate the visual representation of individual and collective values within various intellectual, cultural, historical and social contexts through by discussing, writing, making projects, or being tested on visual art, artifacts, and architecture from a broad range of global artworks past and present.

Students will Interpret and respond critically to visual works of art from various world culture cultures through activities such as discussion, writing, making projects, or being tested.

Discuss, write, make projects, or take tests to explore intellectually a wide variety of issues related to visual arts like aesthetic values, censorship, iconoclasm, appropriation, technological developments, semiotics, and the complexity of depiction.

Articulate informed personal responses through discussion, written analyses of specific works, or making projects in response to works of visual art.

Discuss, write, make projects, or take tests to explain how they are connected and related to people elsewhere in the world by examining, comparing, and contrasting examples of global art works of the past and present that depict or address a human experience that we all may share.

Describe similarities and differences among global places and populations, students will discuss, write about, make projects, or be tested on the similarities and differences between works of global art and architecture and how each work is a specific manifestation the culture that gives it form.

Analyze how works of art and architecture have had or can have a global impact beyond their intrinsic value as aesthetic objects by discussing, writing about, making projects, or being tested on how art intersects with political, economic, or cultural elements on a global scale.

Address specific international issues, students will discuss, write about, make projects, or be tested on art and artists who address in their work global issues such as environment; health; migration; food and water security; war; social, ethnic, or religious strife; persecution, totalitarianism, discrimination, white supremacy, and ongoing effects of colonialism.