Visual Arts 10

Overall Expectations:

CP10.2 Demonstrate, through practice, a variety of drawing/mark making techniques, skills and compositional strategies using a range of media, to communicate ideas.

Specific Expectations:

c.    Apply selected image development strategies to manipulate one or more elements of art or principles of design (e.g., elaborate by adding pattern to an image).

d.    Manipulate and apply compositional strategies (e.g., rule of thirds, point of view/vantage point) to solve visual problems and communicate ideas.

MediaSmarts Resources

Art Exchange
Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads - Lesson
Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
Secure Comics
The Price of Happiness 
Tobacco Labels

Overall Expectations:

CP10.3 Experiment with various art practices (e.g., drawing, painting, crafting, printmaking, digital technologies, sculpture, installation) to develop new or unique ideas.

Specific Expectations:

d.    Purposefully manipulate, through drawing/mark making techniques, selected elements of art and principles of design in own work.

e.    Experiment with communicating ideas through drawing/mark making using various media (e.g., graphite, charcoal, paint, digital technologies, conté, pastels, wire, pen and ink, clay).

g.    Discuss the difference between copying as a learning exercise versus representing other ideas as one’s own (e.g., intellectual copyright, appropriation).

MediaSmarts Resources

Art Exchange
Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads - Lesson
Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
Remixing Media
Secure Comics
The Price of Happiness 
Tobacco Labels

Overall Expectations:

CH10.2 Investigate the impact of visual culture on students’ lives and human condition.

Specific Expectations:

a.    Analyze and discuss the impact of visual expressions on self, culture and societies (e.g., expression of personal and cultural identity)

b.    Examine and respond to the influence and meaning of visual designs (e.g., clothing, tattoos, beadwork, skateboards, ski logos, portraiture, web design, social media, gaming, graffiti) observed in daily life.

c.    Conduct an inquiry on the use of visual imagery by corporations and others to promote differing perspectives and/or influence thought (e.g., social justice movements, advertising, propaganda and political imagery).

d.    Analyze choices made in own visual expressions of self (e.g., choice of clothing, hairstyles, jewelry) and discuss the role of social media and other aspects of visual culture in influencing one’s choices.

e.    Research visual literacy and its evolution (e.g., web design, rock concert staging, YouTube videos, powwows) and assess the personal and social value of visual literacy.

MediaSmarts Resources

Alcohol on the Web
Art Exchange
Camera Shots
Editing Emotions
Gender and Tobacco
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Kellogg Special K Ads
Learning Gender Stereotypes
Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
Selling Obesity 
Tobacco Labels