Unit Title: Conflict in Art Key Concepts: Change Global Context: Fairness and development
Unit Overview Students will examine how art has reflected conflict throughout human history. We will discuss whether or not artists have an ethical obligation to portray reality through their art regarding conflict. Grade 9 will then be assigned a country with an ongoing conflict which they are to research and do a presentation on. Using acrylic paints students are to develop a painting that portrays some aspect of the conflict they studied about.