Standards Based Curriculum
The city of New Haven has three bold goals for art. Here is how my unit will meet all three of those bold goals:
1. Creating art -- students will learn new techniques and media.
In my unit students will learn color theory by creating a color wheel and value scales with paint. They will learn to use tints and shades to create highlights and shadows so that they can paint objects with volume.
2. Responding to art -- students will be able to talk about and analyze artwork.
Using Feldman's method students will be able to describe, analyze and interpret artwork. I would also like students to understand why an artist might want to represent a subject in a more simplified manner, as well as analyzing different techniques for showing motion in an artwork.
3. Making Connections -- students must make connections from their world to the artwork.
My unit will do this in two ways, it will connect students to the actual artwork, since we will be going to the Yale University Art Gallery to see the artwork. It will also connect futurism to their own lives by having them think about current technology.
