Images are central to the visual arts. Visual arts education provides opportunities for all students to perceive, respond to, and create and communicate through images, allowing them to experience and apply throughout their lives the power, ideas, and emotions expressed in visual images.
Images may take several forms, ranging from simple mark making to elaborate architectural forms. These forms may be representational, abstract, conceptual, performance-related, or functional. Images may be 2-D or 3-D, and they may be static or kinetic. Images become meaningful to students as they develop an understanding of the personal, social, cultural, and historical contexts in which these images are viewed or created. Image development involves students in a design processa purposeful and inventive artistic activity involving the use of a variety of materials, technologies, and processes to organize visual elements according to principles of art and design.
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