Benchmarks - Art

• Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, and forms.
• Use pattern and variety.
• Use the five senses to gather information from the environment.
• Arrange art elements intuitively to create artworks.
• Identify simple subjects expressed in artworks.
• Create artworks using art elements, principles and basic art materials and tools.
• Cut, tear, and glue.
• Relate art to every day life.
• Express ideas about personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers and famous artists.
• Share ideas about artwork demonstrating respect for differing opinions.

• Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, textures, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, and proportion.
• Use art elements to create designs.
• Identify the use of art in every day life.
• Invent images that combine a variety of art elements.
• Increase manipulative skills when creating drawings, paintings, prints, and constructions using a variety of basic art materials and tools.
• Identify simple ideas expressed in artworks through different media.
• Express ideas about personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers and famous artists.

• Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, texture, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, and rhythm.
• Identify art careers.
• Define reasons for preferences in personal artworks.
• Use the senses to identify variations in objects and subjects from the environment.
• Express ideas and feelings in artworks using art elements.
• Use art elements and principles to create personal artworks.
• Identify and practice skills necessary for producing drawings, paintings, prints, constructions, and modeled forms using basic art materials and tools.
• Identify ideas in personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers, and famous artists.

• Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, textures, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, and unity.
• Identify and use rhythm.
• Relate art to different careers.
• Produce drawings, constructions, paintings, and prints using a variety of art materials appropriately.
• Compare artworks from different cultures.
• Compare and contrast different artworks from different cultures and periods in art history.
• Use design skills to develop a variety of compositions.
• Create artworks based on personal observations and experiences.
• Identify general intent and expressive qualities in personal artworks.
• Apply simple criteria to identify main ideas in personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers and famous artists.

• Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, texture, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, and unity.
• Incorporate a variety of ideas about self, life events, family and community in original artworks.
• Identify the role of art in American society.
• Invent ways to produce artwork using a variety of art media and materials.
• Compare and contrast artworks from a variety of cultures.
• Design original artworks.
• Identify simple main ideas expressed in art.
• Describe intent and form conclusions about personal artworks.
• Interpret ideas and moods in personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers, and famous artists.

• Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, textures, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, and unity.
• Compare relationships between design and every day life.
• Compare and contrast artworks from different periods in art history and a variety of cultures.
• Create original artworks using a variety of art materials and media.
• Analyze personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers and famous artist to form conclusions about properties.

*Portfolio implementation will be included at the discretion of each individual art teacher due to student population, space/storage, and available materials.