VISUAL ARTS

Art

ELECTIVE SUBJECT – ONE SEMESTER

Learning Focus

This course introduces students to a variety of mediums that are aimed at improving the students making and creating skills. They are offered a range of creative, making mediums including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and printmaking and given an opportunity to produce a number of visual outcomes.

Students create and respond to visual art works, students use conceptual explanations to critically reflect on the contribution of visual arts practitioners. They adapt ideas, visual images and practices from selected artists and use them to inform their own personal aesthetic when making artworks and presenting them to an audience.

Victorian Curriculum Strands

Explore and Express Ideas

● Exploring, imagining, experimenting, and expressing ideas, concepts, themes, values,beliefs, observations and experiences in artworks that students view and make

Visual Arts Practices

● Developing understanding and skills by exploring, selecting, applying, and manipulating techniques, technologies and processes. Conceptualising, planning and designing artworks

Present and Perform

● Creating, exhibiting, discussing, analysing artworks and considering the intention of artistsand curators. Considering the relationship between artist intentions and audience engagement and interpretation

Respond and Interpret

● Analysing, evaluating, interpreting and reflecting upon meanings, beliefs and values in artworks. Examining artworks in historical and cultural contexts

Assessment

A range of assessment procedures is used, including:

● Folio – notes, generation of ideas, making trials and experiments

● Major artwork/s

● Written Responding and Interpretation tasks