Los Angeles County Musuem of Art
This site features thousands of images of works in the museum's collection. The museum has significant collections of African, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South and Southeast Asian, and Islamic art. It also has collections of textiles, prints and drawings, and photography.
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The Arts: Visual Art

  Curriculum Standard 4

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:

• Compare the characteristics of works of art representing various cultures, historical periods, and artists.
• Describe and place a variety of art objects by style and artist, and by historical and cultural contexts.
• Describe how a given work of art can be interpreted differently in various cultures and time.
• Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:

• Differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art.
• Analyze relationships among works of art in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, using their observations to inform their own art making.
• Understand various critical models of interpreting works from several historical periods and cultures.
• Analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations of meaning.

  Curriculum Standard 5

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:

• Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.
• Analyze the meanings of contemporary and historic artworks.
• Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others’ work by using specific criteria.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:

• Research and analyze historic meaning and purpose in various works of art.
• Defend personal interpretations to better understand specific works of art.
• Reflect critically on various interpretations to better understand specific works of art.
• Analyze and interpret art works identifying relationships among form, context and purposes.