Important Art Education Terms To Know:

Creativity

Aesthetics

Craft Knowledge

Transcendentalism

Respect - acknowledging the importance and significance of others with attitudes, actions and words

Encouragement

Determination

Metacognition

Listening

Composition

Medium

Reflection

Multiculturalism

Abstract thought- thought that is separate from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.

Aesthetics- The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and value of art objects and experiences. It is concerned with identifying the clues within works that can be used to understand, judge, and defend judgments about those works. Originally, any activity connected with art, beauty and taste, becoming more broadly the study of art's function, nature, ontology, purpose, and so on.

--critical reflection on art, culture and nature.

Art History- Is the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and look. Moreover, art history generally is the research of artists and their cultural and social contributions.

Critique- to review or analyze critically.

Production- the act of producing; creation; manufacture.

Visual Culture- Is a field of study that generally includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, by focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images.

*assessment - teachers and students need to know what they are looking for and how to give it value.

*concept - an idea or cluster of ideas. Student should be able to conceptualize a visual problem and brainstorm visual solutions.

Aesthetics - critical reflection on art, culture and nature.

 postmodernism - was originally a reaction to modernism.

 Interdisciplinary- art knowledge should be transferable, and relate to other subjects like history, math and science.

 Multicultural - a trend in art education that became popular in the early 1990's

postmodernism - was originally a reaction to modernism.

 Social- the art room is one of the most social areas in the school. Ideas are freely exchanged, school conventions are relaxed, movement is less predicatable and wrong answers are more rare, in an art room. By maintaining social connections in the creative art environment, communication of ideas is fomented at an accelerated pace, compared to, say, a row of desks with students learning pre-algebra.

  Personal -expression of self and one's ideas, morality and spirit are just some of the uses of art.