ARTSHEETS
Students work in groups to complete ARTSHEETS for each of the APAH's 250 artworks.
Students work in groups to complete ARTSHEETS for each of the APAH's 250 artworks.
- ARTSHEETS help students structure research-based information about a work of art pertaining to its form, content, context and function.
- ARTSHEETS help relate artworks to APAH's Big Ideas, Essential Questions and each Unit's Enduring Understanding and Essential Knowledge components.
- ARTSHEETS allow students to make meaningful connections to other artworks and arts significance to history past, present and future.
CONTENT: What can you see? What is the subject matter? FORM: Finer details, the Elements of Art and Principles of Design. CONTEXT: WHY? What was happening during this time that caused this piece to be created? Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual, Art? FUNCTION: What is its purpose? What was it made to be used for, or do? (U.R.P.H.E.I.A. - see to the right) STYLE: How are you able to classify an artwork by a particular artist, culture, period, art movement, etc.? MEANING: What led up to the creation of this piece? How did this work reflect the ideas during this time in history, and allow it to be a product of its time? What is the meaning of the artwork? |
CONTEXT can very much determine the function. What is the intended purpose? Artworks can usually fall under one or more of the following categories.
U.R.P.H.E.I.A.
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