Looking Closely: The Vocabulary of Visual Analysis: Art Unit 1, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Looking Closely: The Vocabulary of Visual Analysis is Unit 1 of Seeing and Meaning: A History of Visual Analysis (Part 1) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Art course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 67 pages.

• The formal elements line, shape, form, space, and texture
• The three independent color properties hue, value, and saturation
• The relationship between compositional arrangement and visual balance
• The distinction between descriptive and interpretive statements about a visual work
• The relationship between medium/scale constraints and formal choices in a work
• Formal-analysis vocabulary applied in the description-then-interpretation structure
• The generalizability of the description/interpretation distinction beyond art objects
• The attribution/provenance vocabulary set (patron, provenance, attribution, iconography, workshop, commission)

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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