Week 3 - Chapter 4 response

I want my art classes to be artmaking based but I want my student's work to be base on big ideas so that the work that they do can be purposeful and art that they make can be meaningful. In order to do this students will need to learn about the meaning behind other works of art by understanding Art Criticism and Art History, but I want students to be able to take the ideas they learn from these sources and use them to make art.