A World of Traditions: Materials, Cultures, Choices: Art Unit 3, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

A World of Traditions: Materials, Cultures, Choices is Unit 3 of Seeing and Making: An Introduction to Visual Art (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Art course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 60 pages.

• Medium, process, and support as material vocabulary
• The four named tradition examples (African, Asian, Americas, European works)
• Flat space and absence of value gradation as intentional representational choices in specific traditions (e.g., Japanese ukiyo-e, Byzantine icon painting)
• The relationship between material constraint and mark/message in an unfamiliar named artwork
• Cross-continental comparison of material’s effect on artistic choice
• The fairness of applying cross-cultural standards to judge artwork
• Transfer of the material-constrains-message principle to an unstudied tradition
• Support as a physical category inferable from surface evidence
• Proportion and shape accuracy in observational still-life drawing

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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