ARTSHEETS
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.
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​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.
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U.R.P.H.E.I.A.
  • UTILITARIAN: functional or useful items (i.e. containers, furniture, jewelry, etc.)
  • RELIGIOUS: items made for worship, veneration, ceremonies, rituals, festivals, procession, or burial rites.
  • POLITICAL: items meant to comment on social or political issues; wars, social injustice, propagandizing leaders or to change public opinion.
  • HISTORICAL: records historical events
  • ECONOMIC: art made for financial gain or as a result of a wealthy patron.
  • INFORMATIONAL: to teach or inform; carry on a cultural tradition or moral to future generations.
  • AESTHETICS: for the joy or search for beauty, art for arts sake.