Grade 9 Visual Arts (AVI1O)

The Ontario Grade 9 open course AVI1O: three strands, creating and presenting, reflecting and analysing, and foundations. The museum maps nine of the expectations through Islamic examples only: materials, display, the work art does, the society behind it, careers, pattern and technique.

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Strand A: Creating and Presenting

What artists make art with, and how works reach an audience; the museum serves what Islamic artists used and two cases of display (A3.1, A3.3).

  1. What Islamic artists made art with What materials, tools and techniques artists use, and how they use them to make art works (A3.1). InventionCareersObject
  2. Showing art to an audience Some of the ways art works can be presented to reach different audiences (A3.3). Place

Strand B: Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing

What art works were for, what society stands behind them, and what careers made them; the museum serves examples from Islamic art (B1.3, B2.1, B2.2, B3.2).

  1. What art was for The functions that different kinds of art works have served in past societies (B2.1). Object × 2Story
  2. Art, patrons and their society What a work shows, who ordered it, and how it reflects the society that made it (B1.3, B2.2). ObjectStoryInvention
  3. Careers behind the art Pathways and careers related to visual arts, and how people trained for them (B3.2). Careers × 2

Strand C: Foundations

The vocabulary of design and technique; the museum serves examples of pattern, cutting, copying and measuring from Islamic art (C1.1, C1.2, C2.1).

  1. Describing pattern and surface Words for the elements and principles of design in a work, and techniques artists use to get an effect (C1.1, C2.1). Object × 3
  2. Words for techniques, materials and tools Vocabulary for the techniques, materials and tools used in making and presenting art works (C1.2). InventionCareers × 2

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