Quiz Questions Flashcards
These are questions based on the quiz content presented in class.
How can Social Activism in Art demonstrate a Prophetic reality?
Art allows artists to create a different version of what the world is/could be.
By providing a vision of a different world, artists can not only inspire hope for things to come, but they can also point out injustice in our current world; sometimes the absence of something can create just as strong a statement as its presence.
Relate questions of identity to social justice
Artists create portrayals of who they are and what represents them. While exploring this, artists encounter issues of gender, race, language, culture, sexuality, or socioeconomic status.
This lets students see the positives of community and diversity yet allows the hypocrisy and discrimination to be viewed and discounted. Identity shows the common ties and proves why we should fight for all people, not just ourselves.
Give two examples of art projects that can promote language arts goals
Writing a story Illustrating a story Journaling, Writing a poem or essay Discussing memories Practicing visual literacy (media, technology)
How can art be used to improve vocabulary development?
Art can be used to aesthetically describe and depict something. Knowing what line, shape, color, texture, and pattern are help develop a way to look at the world and be able to describe it.
How can asking questions about art facilitate speech development?
Students can discuss works, methods, and stories. This explanation, done in a group or as a class, gives students a chance to create an opinion and support it with that they have learned about art.
This can also help students use their own experiences to critically examine artworks and share their conclusions with the class.
Art can be a collaborative experience.
How can field trips be a viable method of teaching for students with disabilities?
Places like museums help students increase their awareness and appreciation of the artistic world. Often a museum may already have accommodations for patrons with disabilities and many have supplies geared toward school-age children.
Children can see more of the original art and can associate it with the other artwork of the period.
How does art contribute to therapy?
Art can be an expressive release, where a patient can work through personal feelings and stress. It can also be a starting point for discussions in therapy.
List at least three gains students with intellectual or developmental disabilities can acquire through working with art.
1: Art can allow students an alternative mode of expression that may be easier and more clearly understood.
2: Art can provide tactile, visual, and motor experiences that the student may not be able to access elsewhere. This allows physical and mental processes to be more closely connected.
3: Art becomes problem solving that allows students to make decisions and create solutions.
What is visual culture?
Visual culture works towards a social theory of visuality. It focuses on questions of what is made visible, who sees what, and how seeing, knowing and power are interrelated.
It examines the act of seeing as a product of the tensions between external images or objects, and internal thought processes.
According to Clements & Wachowiak:
List at least 4 reasons that it is important for children to study art
Cultural Understanding Makes the Ordinary Important and Special Personal Communication and Expression General and Artistic Creativity Aesthetic Awareness Literacy and Cognition Core Participant in School Different way learning/communicating school
What is art criticism and what are the three questions that serve as beginning points for discussion?
Art criticism is the term given to "talking, writing, and thinking about art-works." The three questions are: What is it? What does it mean? What is its value?
There are two differing perspectives on art and art critcism.
What are they? Give a brief definition
Formalism: art is the form - how it looks, the materials used, and the skills used to make it.
Contextualism: Art is a social communication system.
Identify the Elements of art
Line, Shape, Form, Space, Texture, Color, Value
Identify the Principles of art
Balance, Emphasis, Movement, Pattern (Repetition), Unity, Contrast, Rhythm
What is Paracosm?
Paracosm is “a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography, language, and history.”
It is a persistent form of make-believe lasting over weeks, months, or years and is revisited over and again.
