Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
Chapter 117 - TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR FINE ARTS
Subchapter B - MIDDLE SCHOOL, ADOPTED 2013
Section 117.203 - Art, Middle School 2, Adopted 2013
Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code ยง 117.203
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(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 about, understanding, and applying the elements of art, principles of
design, and expressive qualities. The student uses what the student sees,
knows, and has experienced as sources for examining, understanding, and
creating original artworks. The student is expected to:
(A) identify and illustrate ideas from direct
observation, original sources, imagination, personal experiences, and
communities such as family, school, cultural, local, regional, national, and
international;
(B) compare and
contrast the elements of art, including line, shape, color, texture, form,
space, and value, as the fundamentals of art in personal artworks using
vocabulary accurately;
(C) compare
and contrast the principles of design, including emphasis, repetition/pattern,
movement/rhythm, contrast/variety, balance, proportion, and unity, in personal
artworks using vocabulary accurately; and
(D) understand and apply the expressive
properties of artworks such as appropriation, meaning, narrative, message, and
symbol using art vocabulary accurately.
(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) create original artworks
that express a variety of ideas based on direct observations, original sources,
and personal experiences, including memory, identity, imagination, and the
community;
(B) apply the art-making
process to solve problems and generate design solutions;
(C) apply technical skills effectively using
a variety of materials to produce artworks, including drawings, paintings,
prints, sculptures/modeled forms, ceramics, fiber art, photographic imagery,
and digital art and media; and
(D)
use an understanding of copyright and public domain to appropriate imagery when
working from sources rather than direct observation or imagination.
(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) analyze ways that global, cultural,
historical, and political issues influence artworks;
(B) analyze selected artworks to determine
contemporary relevance in relationship to universal themes such as belief,
cultural narrative, life cycles, the passage of time, identity, conflict, and
cooperation;
(C) compare and
contrast relationships that exist between a society's art and its music,
literature, and architecture; and
(D) identify career and avocational choices
in art such as various design, museum, and fine arts fields.
(4) Critical evaluation and
response. The student responds to and analyzes artworks of self and others,
contributing to the development of the lifelong skills of making informed
judgments and reasoned evaluations. The student is expected to:
(A) create written or oral responses about
personal or collaborative artworks addressing purpose, technique, organization,
judgment, and personal expression;
(B) analyze original artworks using a method
of critique such as describing the artwork, analyzing the way it is organized,
interpreting the artist's intention, and evaluating the success of the
artwork;
(C) develop a portfolio
that demonstrates progress;
(D)
investigate and explore original artworks in a variety of venues outside of the
classroom such as museums, galleries, or community art; and
(E) demonstrate an understanding of and apply
proper exhibition etiquette.
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