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Artist Description

Student summarizes the artist’s life and explains several important influences on his/her work, including time periods, places, cultures, experiences, and artistic movements.

Student summarizes the artist’s life and explains some influences on his/her work.

Student summarizes the artist’s life and identifies some influences on his/her work but does not explain these influences.

Summary of artist’s life is absent.

Formal Description

Student provides a complete and detailed description of the subject matter and/or elements seen in at least 2 works.

Student provides a detailed description of most of the subject matter and/or elements seen in at least 2 works.

Student provides a detailed description of some of the subject matter and/or elements seen in at least 2 works.

Descriptions are not detailed or complete.

Analysis

Student accurately describes several dominant elements or principles used by the artist and explains how the artist uses them reinforce a theme or meaning in the work. Student relates how the work represents the artist’s identity and provides strong evidence for this position.

Student accurately describes a couple of dominant elements and principles used by the artist explains how the artist uses them reinforce a theme or meaning in the work. Student relates how the work represents the artist’s identity but does not provide evidence for this position.

Student describes some dominant elements and principles used by the artist, but has difficulty describing how these relate to the meaning of the work and how the work represents the artist’s identity.

Student does not describe dominant elements or offer analysis of the work.

Influence of Culture

Student is able to give several detailed examples of how the time, place, and culture in which an artist lived influenced his/her work.

Student is able to give a couple of examples of how the time, place, and culture in which an artist lived influenced his/her work.

Student is able to give one example of how the time, place, and culture in which an artist lived influenced his/her work.

Student has difficulty describing how the time, place, and culture in which artists lived influenced their work.

Organization

Information is very organized with well-constructed paragraphs and subheadings.

Information is organized with well-constructed paragraphs.

Information is organized, but paragraphs are not well-constructed.

Information is disorganized.

Mechanics

No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.

Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.

A few grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.

Many grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.

Sources

All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented in the desired format.

All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented, but a few are not in the desired format.

All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented, but many are not in the desired format.

Some sources are not accurately documented.