New York Fine Arts


The following performance indicators from the New York State Standards for the Arts (1996) are addressed in Odyssey Online.

Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12

Grades 5-8


Standard 4: Students will explore art and artifacts from various historical periods and world cultures to discover the roles that art plays in the lives of people of a given time and place and to understand how time and place influence the visual characteristics of the art work. Students will explore art to understand the social, cultural and environmental dimensions of human society.

• Students demonstrate how art works and artifacts from diverse world cultures reflect aspects of those cultures.

• Students analyze works of art from diverse world cultures and discuss the ideas, issues and events of the culture that these works convey.