Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
Chapter 117 - TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR FINE ARTS
Subchapter A - ELEMENTARY, ADOPTED 2013
Section 117.105 - Art, Grade 1, Adopted 2013
Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code § 117.105
Current through Reg. 50, No. 26; June 27, 2025
(a) Introduction.
(1) The fine arts incorporate the study of
dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts to offer unique experiences and
empower students to explore realities, relationships, and ideas. These
disciplines engage and motivate all students through active learning, critical
thinking, and innovative problem solving. The fine arts develop cognitive
functioning and increase student academic achievement, higher-order thinking,
communication, and collaboration skills, making the fine arts applicable to
college readiness, career opportunities, workplace environments, social skills,
and everyday life. Students develop aesthetic and cultural awareness through
exploration, leading to creative expression. Creativity, encouraged through the
study of the fine arts, is essential to nurture and develop the whole
child.
(2) Four basic
strands--foundations: observation and perception; creative expression;
historical and cultural relevance; and critical evaluation and
response--provide broad, unifying structures for organizing the knowledge and
skills students are expected to acquire. Each strand is of equal value and may
be presented in any order throughout the year. Students rely on personal
observations and perceptions, which are developed through increasing visual
literacy and sensitivity to surroundings, communities, memories, imaginings,
and life experiences, as sources for thinking about, planning, and creating
original artworks. Students communicate their thoughts and ideas with
innovation and creativity. Through art, students challenge their imaginations,
foster critical thinking, collaborate with others, and build reflective skills.
While exercising meaningful problem-solving skills, students develop the
lifelong ability to make informed judgments.
(3) Statements that contain the word
"including" reference content that must be mastered, while those containing the
phrase "such as" are intended as possible illustrative examples.
(b) Knowledge and skills.
(1) Foundations: observation and perception.
The student develops and expands visual literacy skills using critical
thinking, imagination, and the senses to observe and explore the world by
learning, understanding, and applying the elements of art and principles of
design. The student uses what the student sees, knows, and has experienced as
sources for examining, understanding, and creating artworks. The student is
expected to:
(A) identify similarities,
differences, and variations among subjects in the environment using the senses;
and
(B) identify the elements of
art, including line, shape, color, texture, and form, and the principles of
design, including emphasis, repetition/pattern, and balance, in nature and
human-made environments.
(2) Creative expression. The student
communicates ideas through original artworks using a variety of media with
appropriate skills. The student expresses thoughts and ideas creatively while
challenging the imagination, fostering reflective thinking, and developing
disciplined effort and progressive problem-solving skills. The student is
expected to:
(A) invent images that combine a
variety of lines, shapes, colors, textures, and forms;
(B) place components in orderly arrangements
to create designs; and
(C) increase
manipulative skills necessary for using a variety of materials to produce
drawings, paintings, prints, constructions, and sculptures, including modeled
forms.
(3) Historical
and cultural relevance. The student demonstrates an understanding of art
history and culture by analyzing artistic styles, historical periods, and a
variety of cultures. The student develops global awareness and respect for the
traditions and contributions of diverse cultures. The student is expected to:
(A) identify simple ideas expressed in
artworks through different media;
(B) demonstrate an understanding that art is
created globally by all people throughout time;
(C) discuss the use of art in everyday life;
and
(D) relate visual art concepts
to other disciplines.
(4) Critical evaluation and response. The
student responds to and analyzes artworks of self and others, contributing to
the development of lifelong skills of making informed judgments and reasoned
evaluations. The student is expected to:
(A)
explain ideas about personal artworks;
(B) identify ideas found in collections such
as real or virtual art museums, galleries, portfolios, or exhibitions using
original artworks created by artists or peers; and
(C) compile collections of artwork such as
physical artwork, electronic images, sketchbooks, or portfolios for the
purposes of self-evaluations or exhibitions.
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