Elementary Visual School Arts

Evaluate: How successful
or important is the work
of art?

Concepts

(students need to know)

Skills

(students need to be able

to do)

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Levels

Understand the purpose
of the activity: Why do we
look at art?

Steps in the Critique
process:

Describe: How do you
describe art? How do
you use art terms in
describing art?
Tell exactly what you see

Analyze: Use the
elements/principles to
reflect upon the art form
Art vocabulary
Color Use
Shapes
Feelings
Mask Use

Interpret
What is the artist trying to
say?
What caused the artist to
say it?

Why was the work of art
created in this particular
style?
Why art? What is its
significance?

Evaluate: How successful
or important is the work

Effectively use

appropriate art

terminology to express

personal opinions about

art. (Critique)

Compare and contrast

different styles of masks

Compare/contrast how

your mask similar to

masks that we studied?

Explain how and why

personal works of art are

made, focusing on media

and process.

Talk about

representational symbols

and colors

1. Remembering


2. Understanding


3. Applying


4. Analyzing


5. Evaluating – how the
   artwork was created and
   if the use of the elements
   and principles were used